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BrundleMeth
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2009.02.02 20:05:00 -
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Edited by: BrundleMeth on 02/02/2009 20:06:24
A co-worker recently told me about it in like December. I have been gaming 20 years or so playing mostly adventure games in the way past, flight sims for 5 or 6 years and shooters since Doom came out. I'm a hardware and gadget junkie and was looking for something new. I took a look at EVE and signed up for 3 months. Within a few days, I bought a second account, and paid $700.00 for a new NetBook so I can take it into work with me and make sure I always got a training session going.
Woo Hoo, this game rocks and looks awesome on a 30 Inch Monitor at 2560 x 1600 rez...
(Dual Income, No Kids, 51 years old)... (Oh and the lovely wife is a gamer too. I just ordered her Netbook on Saturday)...
Woot !!!
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Commander Shag
No Trademark
Notoriety Alliance
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Posted - 2009.02.02 20:25:00 -
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A bunch of buddies and I played on a sponsored FPS team called "No Trademark". They started playing EVE and convinced me to come try it. Been playing ever since.
Hi Fifi 
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Yesh
Dirty Filthy Perverts
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Posted - 2009.02.02 20:35:00 -
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I was listening to a radio chat show a few years back and the topic was about how a rehab centre had been set up to help people with video game addiction.
People called in about WOW and EVE and when I got home I googled eve and have been here ever since.
Irony or what?
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Fyrewyre
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Posted - 2009.02.02 20:35:00 -
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My supervisor at work (we used to occasionally play online together) came into work one morning and said "I've found a new game but I'm not sure if you will like it"
3 years on 
I even remember spending the entire morning browsing the item database on my mobile phone, I go back to the item database every now and again to recreate said morning as it hasn't changed since.
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"Never let anyone stop you having fun"
Mad Snoz, leeds |
wolfbuzz
Gallente
Accurate Learning
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Posted - 2009.02.02 21:36:00 -
[95]
Advert on IGN.com ages ago... |
Gogar Teltaf
tr0pa de elite
G00DFELLAS
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Posted - 2009.02.02 21:38:00 -
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For me it was an article by UK games reviewer Jim Rossignol, published in PC Gamer magazine back in 2004 detailing his story in eve prior to that point. That got me into the idea of playing eve, and I think that in January 2005 PC Gamer put the client on there disk so I decided to check it out. Been playing (almost without breaks) ever since. |
Jenny Spitfire
Caldari
LoneStar Industries
FOUNDATI0N
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Posted - 2009.02.02 21:49:00 -
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I paly WOW and met vewy halpful palyars and tehy give me test key to trie Eve. I trie Eve and I lube it. Eve palyars are vewy niec. 
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Technica impendi Caldari generis. Pax Caldaria!
Go vote!
Put voice for silent majority.
LOVE PVP, HATE grief |
Vincent Gaines
Tau Online Explorator Corp
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Posted - 2009.02.02 21:56:00 -
[98]
GHSC article, I believe it was in The Escapist
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RevJim
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.02 22:01:00 -
[99]
Goddamn barstard 'friend' of mine got me to download it, dammit!
Wouldn't be so bad, but the missus plays too, can't escape :(
RevJim
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Reyold Bengali
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.02.02 22:24:00 -
[100]
After I left SWG, a friend suggested I give Eve a try. He quit a few months later to play, of all things, WoW. Meanwhile, it'll be three years for me this May. |
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Larg Kellein
Caldari
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2009.02.02 23:05:00 -
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Read a review on release, thought it looked promising but refused to pay for a subscription to a game I already paid for back then.
A couple of years later, and I've gotten over the subscription thing, and am playing City of Heroes. Then I read the PC Gamer article on the GHSC infiltration job, which rekindles my interest. However, I'm still enjoying city of heroes, and due to being on a student income, can't justify the extra subscription. Some time later, I'm getting bored with City of Heroes, and some people from my group here have drifted to Eve, so I figure I'll give it a shot. Couple of years later, and I have 3 accounts.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2009.02.02 23:34:00 -
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During a game of D&D, a friend was talking to me about this new MMO that was going to be massive and how I should get in on the ground floor. Much to the annoyance of our DM, we spent the entire D&D session chatting about it. I signed up an account in february 2004 and my dad paid for it. Now almost five years later I'm still playing and still love the game. I've done practically everything in EVE over the years, from 0.0 alliance leadership to piracy, marketeering, even selling research lab slots back in 2005. I contributed a lot to the insider's guide section in the early EON magazines and now I write a weekly column on EVE Online at massively.com. So yeah getting into EVE has definitely been a good experience for me.
The friend that got me into EVE (Velsharoon) has quit unfortunately but I'm still going and have brought some RL friends into the game, including my little brother ToG who likes to build all my tritanium into shuttles and spend all my isk on exotic dancers if I leave EVE running and leave the room ¼_¼. |
Kyanzes
Amarr
Utopian Research I.E.L.
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:04:00 -
[103]
On MMORPG.com in 2004, I think. |
Par'Gellen
Gallente
Tres Hombres Psychiatric Hospital
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:10:00 -
[104]
Read a writeup about it in a magazine just before it was released. Sounded cool so I grabbed a copy the day it hit the shelves. |
Rondo Gunn
Caldari
Perkone
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:14:00 -
[105]
Heard about it when it was in beta. From...Gamespot.com....I think. So many years ago, I can't really remember.
I remember reading about the exequror being introduced. I though it looked neat. Lol, how times change. Mining cruiser indeed, hehe. |
Dau Imperius
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:19:00 -
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I was playing Earth and Beyond (E&B) in 2003 and loving it!
Meanwhile I was gearing up for Star Wars Galaxies (SWG). While looking around in my local gaming store to pre-order it, I saw that EVE was going to be released (back in the orginal box we had to pay for lol) at the same time. I had heaps of time so I decided to give it a go.
I wasslike many in the begining who thought the game wouldn't last past a year. But we were oh so wrong. Thing is there were many more players (not alts/multiple accounts) back then; And less PvP-oriented players lowering the IQ of the game. Still here though, till a successor to E&B comes along.
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DubanFP
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:24:00 -
[107]
I ran across the article about the GHSC event in my issue of PC gamer. I couldn't actually subscribe for another 6 months and only played a series of trials for a while but eventually I got the game. Nearly 3 years later here I am still playing.
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This is EVE. Here you have the right to settle any disagreements with lethal force. |
SkyLordUK
Amarr
Baptism oF Fire
B.L.A.C.K.
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:27:00 -
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browsing the net for online MMOs EvE popped up on a website i found on google clicked on it found out i had to pay so i left....
....came back 2 days later when my friend told me there was a free trial used 4 free trails then gave up...
year later hallaulah got a job subscribed to EvE with the current Character and here i am 2 1/2 years later and so far killing all alliances i've joined 
Hope BOB take me in soon and put everyones pain at ease
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CCP Dropbear
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:49:00 -
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Picked up a 14 day trial from the cover disc of PC Powerplay way back in early '04. Thus began my journey!
Always makes me smile to think that the simple act of buying a magazine had such far-reaching effects.
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woodman az
Gallente
United Space Aillance USA
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:53:00 -
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Frackin EA hut down Earth and Beyond..the Fracking AssHats at EA!!!!!
Otherwise I would of had 2 accounts at Earth and Beyond and one here....maybe 2 accounts here tooo
Promises made > Promises Kept
BRING THE BRIGHT STAR BACK!!!
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IVeige
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:05:00 -
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was chatting and some folk post the eve online url on the main chat for his buddy. I click on it 
oh i feel old now. |
EnslaverOfMinmatar
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:09:00 -
[112]
read a few exaggerated battle reports on mmorpg.com forums |
Epegi Givo
Amarr
Demon Theory
UNLeashed Legion
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:15:00 -
[113]
I was playing SWG, After the NGE I still stuck with it because it was the best MMO that I had access to. When reading the forums a bit I read something about a spaceship game called EVE, a game I had never heard of. I then Googled EVE, found a wiki-ish article about it that explained all about the basic game mechanics of EVE.
now at this time me and a friend were imagining a perfect MMO. The perfect MMO's keypoints were:
When you die all of the stuff you were carrying is GONE, unless you go back for it.
All one gigantic server, where almost all of the stuff is player-dependant
ability to shoot anyone anywhere, just sometimes with some pretty bad consequences.
Player Guilds that did more than just give you a symbol over your head, as in they would actually get to own areas of space, and become nations on their own.
No lag whatsoever.
And guess how many of the above things are in EVE? all but one, and that one is on its way to being fixed too.
After reading the article, I got a trial, joined a corp, and immediately fell in love with EVE. |
Captain Pompous
Is Right Even When He's Wrong So Deal With It
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:27:00 -
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Softly, tenderly and with great consideration and thoughtfulness. It was a hot summer night. It was great.
I haven't looked back. |
Komen
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:31:00 -
[115]
Hmm, let's see...
Saw the Angelice Prime trailer, back in...'01?
I began to follow the development of the game from that point on.
Tried the open beta, I found it interesting but lacking at that time, and when the May '03 launch was announced, I was very much of the opinion that Eve was not, then, a game ready to ship. I still blame Simon and Schuster for much of Eve's early hardships. Ebil money grubbin' publishers are bad, m'kay.
Played Planetside for..oh, 10 months or so. How I so wanted that game to not suck.
A year later, April '04, I signed up for the free trial. 3 days into that, the CEO of my first corp flew through the system where I was mining (Duripant, or nearby), spammed a corp recruitment in local. I being noobish, I was all like 'wait, wot's dis den?' (also, I was apparently speaking in Orkish).
So I convo'ed him up, and got recruitmented.
Then I went to 0.0 sometime later, first fighting against CFS (and fired on blues at the beginning of that war), later that corp joined Fountain Alliance. War came, I lost shipses, went to empire to join logistical support corp adjunct to my first corp, but that was never really well run and participation was poor.
Stayed in that corp, but effectively not doing anything corp-constructive, for a while.
Joined EDF during their stay in ASCN. Fought a few fleet fights, defended turf against roaming gangs, shot some BoB during the early days of that war. Stayed on until I felt that the war had been lost, left EDF.
Joined industrial corp in empire. Got my first real taste of small-gang and solo PvP there, and found that I liked it
Left that corp, put up recruitment thread looking to join Merc Corp. Got pointed to Trinity Nova, with whom I learned a lot, such as that flying PvP while naked is even more exciting.
Trinity Nova closed up shop, and now I'm back to culling the NPC herds, as directed by my agent.
Where will I go next in this game? That's the beauty of it...even I don't know.
Thank you CCP, for these five years I've enjoyed. |
Ard UnjiiGo
The Bastards
The Bastards.
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:39:00 -
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Had been playing UO but was just getting pretty sick of what was passing for PvP there.
Read reviews about a bunch of games. Was looking for something heavily PvP focused. So, it probably comes as no surprise that I decided to give the EVE Trial a go.
I've never looked back or played any other MMO since.
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OffBeaT
Caldari
KaMiKaZes
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Posted - 2009.02.03 01:48:00 -
[117]
i walked though a video store 6yrs ago and saw it..
dont ever wont to see a game like it again.. NEVER! |
AshenShugar01
Wrath of Fenris
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Posted - 2009.02.03 03:18:00 -
[118]
A buddy of mine was playing one of my fav games of all time Baldur's Gate, I'd catch up with him and he'd tell me where in the story he was up to etc. The one day he said 'Oh i'm not playing BG anymore' WHAT THE??? why? I asked, EVE he said.... and the rest is history, meaningless pixel history to boot :) |
Light Pillar
The Wailing Doom
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Posted - 2009.02.03 03:19:00 -
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I played EQ, didn't like it. Played Diablo II online, didn't like it. The one day at a Barrack's party (Typhoon slamming into Okinawa; locked on Base for 3 days), a friend showed me Planetside. I became a God in the flesh draining 3 years into it. Then SOE did what they do to all their games; milk it for every damn penny they can get their greedy hands on and then move on.
When it died I asked one of my buds; are there any other MMO's where I can be truly evil?
Started Eve, never looked back. |
Cyprus Black
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.02.03 03:26:00 -
[120]
I was seriously into WoW and played it 8 hours a day every day. Then Blizzard released that damn awful BC expansion and I hated the game. Yes, it really was that bad.
Since then I've been jumping from MMO to MMO looking to settle down in one. Eventually I chose EvE.
Recently I went back to WoW to see if this latest expansion redeemed Blizzard for their terrible content. It didn't and if anything, it made the game worse. |
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