Ira Theos
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.02.06 03:03:00 -
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Eve isn't growing because EVE doesn't offer ANYTHING for new players. Not one shred of the game is available to new players.
What about PVE you say? PVE is exists only to support the core game economy.
What about PVP in the market? That exists to facilitate the EVE core game economy.
What about mining, industry, etc? More core game support.
What about WH? Newbs in WH? A humorous suggestion.
Oh, excuse me. I forgot FW, but that's dead from what I hear and no surprise. Why? Well it's pretty obvious to me, but then I've only been trying to play this wretched heap for six years (and that time only because it has been the only game in it's genre).
The real problem is definitional. What is EVE about? What is it's real attraction?
While there are many potential subplots in EVE, the advertised core of the game is about establishing territorial ownership of sovereign space in Zero. A great sweeping theme.
So why does it not attract? The answer lies in what is necessary to plant your flag and accomplish the end goal of "Empire in Zero".
Now most of you here begin to nod your head in agreement and begin your lectures on the importance of coordination, organization, propagandizing, planning and execution on a massive scale that makes most players weep, and in a perfect world, you would be correct. But the world is not perfect and is filled with all manner of undesireable vermin that inhabit the internet.
No, unfortunately, you would be wrong, because due to the verminous infestation, EVE is about superior numbers and that is all.
* Superior numbers of players via ONLINE CLUBS,
* Superior numbers of logistics in ingame resources via BOTTING AND RMT, and
* Superior numbers in resources that are EXTERNAL TO THE GAME, but necesessary to exert control.
The average new subscriber stays in EVE just long enough to realize this and then leaves. Barely enough stay to maintain subscriber numbers. It will stay this way until CCP decides that they can make more money by ridding the game of the vermin rather than serving the vermin community. I have severe doubts that this will happen because I believe there is probably more potential profit in running a game whose core is actually about "competing RMT forces battling each other in Zero over saleable digital assets" than battles over flags and bragging rights.
Some of you will argue here that none of this matters if you just ignore it and carry on in the sandbox, but then you have resigned yourself to just shovelling sand and you aren't really playing EVE.
(Account cancelled last year, running on isk>PLEX, and looking for another game. I wish it weren't so.) |