Slithereen
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Posted - 2004.02.26 03:31:00 -
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Actually when you want to look into the far future of eve it will probably end up:
asian market vs *
* = die
We must prepare :D
Asians are mostly good at the macro stuff, without using a macro  Still remember this Super Mario Bros 3 time attack vid heh.
In real teamwork games they aren't really dominating.
You're kidding right?
And what do you know about real teamwork games? EVE requires teamwork but it's not as teamwork oriented as the games as some of the games I've been to. The most demanding, the most intense and the most focused have been Allegiance and Shattered Galaxy, both of whom I used to play. Allegiance fell apart, because it was such an extreme L33Ter game only the very elite can play(or they won't let you into their team) and there's not enough of the elite to pay the subscriptions so Microsoft gave it out to the free market. This is a lesson that EVE can learn.
But SG is still around, though nothing with the subscriber base of EVE, as the crowd is much more elitist and anti-noob than the worst EVE hardcore. But its original Korean form, Tactical Commanders, easily runs to the tens of thousands. Basically what the game is a massive MMO warfare, Starcraft style.
In SG, teamwork reaches to an almost zen like point---you have to know what to do intuitively, instinctively, for the sake of your team, just by reading the game---3 mins left, launch the PIGs and carpet bomb the POC! The game is basically a watered down English version of TC made available by Nexon to international players, but even then its been dominated by Asian (mainly Singaporean players, though there are considerable HK, Twn, Japanese and Korean players). Most Western players tend to be American particularly around the West Coast, and they comprise nearly a third of the population before I left.
The Sing regiments operate with a clockwork machinelike efficiency---they know early which units they can send to harrass and disrupt the rhythm of your team, know the value of air superiority, right to the last minute to drop heavily armored infantry from their aerial transports on the points of contention. They're so good, accusations of cheating is often levied but since the game is controlled from the server side, it's difficult to prove this.
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