Poll: EVE Online

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Eh..I really did find the game new and intuitive when I first heard about it. It was really fun during my trial time. I played it for about 2 weeks and then I just really didn't care. It was fun, but I never had a big goal in my mind. In most MMO's you have a certain goal and you know what to do. But in EVE I just found myself going through more and more quests and I had no idea what to do. There is so much to do with the game's gameplay mechanics but I just found it confusing. I never really found out who I could shoot down, or who I could go up against. I never really had to much fun.

 

[Kiytan]

i partially like eve (its in space!). But a few things about it annoy me:

1) mining should not be that dull. ever.
2) While the skill system is quite cool, after a while i realised it just means those playing the longest have such an advantage over the others (while true in most MMO's, its just moreso in EvE)
3) the science part of my brain screams out in pain. The distances/travel speeds are so horribly unreal. the noob ships travels at less than mach 1 (if memory serves me right they go 250m/s ish)....waaaay to slow, but thats a very minor knitpick.

 

[Singing Gremlin]

Yeah, at most it's 14 euros a month, not 14 quid...

You mean at least, and also, do the seasonal subcription over paypal and paybycash, and that makes it just less than £10 a month.

I found the trial fun but I hate monthly fees in mmorpg's.

You are a silly silly *****.

No, I mean at most. Monthly fee is 14.99 euro's and it's not going to get any more expensive that that.

Saying it's at least 14 euros a month then telling is it can be less than 10 quid a month is rather counter-intuitive.

And insults are not nice. Not nice I tell you.

 

[Atrer]

Any game that feels like work, especially one that has monthly fees, doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Lord_Jaroh]

First point - No no no. That would lead to grinding. Which is whatmakes EVE so unique, nowadays, it's grindless.

Second point - Also no. Porn and moderation. I'd much prefer some skinning competitions, where you design a skin for a ship,and it might get put in the game. (Obvious)

Apparently you have never done the missions to raise standings, nor have you done mining to get minerals.

Nothing is grindless, it's just how well a game covers grind that makes it good. I don't think implementing ways to alter your learning speed would lead to grinding the way we look at it. I would like the game to be less passive time-based, and have an incentive to actually play the game.

The second point, the game needs customization of some sort. I'm not for the running around in a space station thing they are working on now, as the game is not about the character, but the ship you pilot, which is why being able to make that ship your own so that your Rifter doesn't look like every other Rifter would be nice.

 

[SmugFrog]

(other)

I've never played it, so I can't say whether I enjoy it or not. I would LOVE to check out the free trial, but the amount of time I hear people sink into this game means it is something I do not have time for.

 

[ShadowNinja4d4]

Alright, I created an account with this site JUST to throw in my two cents and make a few things obvious.

1: There are plenty of potential players who won't even touch the game BECAUSE they lost something they spent months saving on, and sorry but unless i'm a super hardcore fan of the game, i'm not going to spend 6 or 7 more months saving up JUST to get that ship back.

2) It is NOT "one person's fault" when your ship is destroyed, sometimes its the fault of the fleet who just happened to find you when you didn't want to fight at all, you were just exploring.

3) This games appeal could be a LOT higher if it had land based combat, imagine being able to land on various planets, all of them with their own unique set of dungeons and monsters, so you don't have to grind through the same crap every day.

4)I'm not sure if this is a fact or not, so please correct me if i'm mistaken. But the fact you're totally alone unless you join a Cooperation or Organization of some sort, is also a big turn off. If you have a ship large enough to have a fighter bay, why not have some NPC fighters? And the higher amount you pay for your pilots, the better their AI and the less likely you are to get shot down by an a random group because you just want to explore the universe and have fun.

I have never played the game personally, but based off observation and facts, these are the points I have come up with, if you disagree with them fine, if you disagree with me saying the game has less appeal because what's gone is gone, I give you the bird, games should NOT be super-realistic, that defeats the purpose of them being GAMES.


I have a friend who played this game himself, and he ended up quitting because he got sick of saving up large amounts of money just to get the ship he lost back. Insurance, according to him, is totally useless because it never covers the full cost of the ship.

Sorry, but higher difficulty =/= better in all cases.

This is why I play Anarchy Online, its not at the same level of complexity of Eve, but it is probably the most complex land based MMO available today...also the free play has a lot of appeal too.

I've said what I wanted to say, I don't much care what sort of responses any of you have but i'll probably check in the future to see what you say anyways. I don't expect anyone to actually ACKNOWLEDGE the validity of my statements, but that's fine...long as my opinion is in the swarm of biased praise i'm happy.