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After 4+ years I still play EVE and compared to most EVE players I consider myself a casual gamer. Yet I can never see myself stopping both my accounts at anytime soon or in the future. Does anyone think there is an end to EVE Online?
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Shadowlord10
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Joined: 7/13/04
A lost gamer looking for the MMO of his dreams. |
1/30/08 3:57:15 PM#2
There is no end. Well less you run out of goals, then I suppose it is over. Eve is really what you make it. I personally have found that if i'm involved in something then time passes by and I have a ball. But when I'm on my own, i lose motivation a little easier. But as far as it being over, i highly doubt you could consider it anything but alive and doing great.
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Kyleran
 Elite Member
Joined: 9/13/06
A simple truth-"What people want and what is good for an mmo is not always the same thing"-mrw0lf |
1/30/08 4:01:08 PM#3
EVE may live forever, as it seems so many other games do. But someday someone will invent a new space sim that draws many folks away from it. But hey, so far it continues to grow, so perhaps it will set the standard for a new model in MMORPG lifestyles.
"Just because you aren't paying doesn't mean it's not PTW." - Amaranthar |
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1/30/08 4:01:45 PM#4
I suppose if you managed to control all of 0 space and have a chokehold on all available mining and trade then it could be over.
Of course...then you'd have a daily chore of defending that from every last player in the game.
So, no....I suppose not. Unless your goals are terribly simple, there seems to be plenty of things to shoot for in that game. Such is the way of Sandbox MMO's. Thats why they appeal to me so.
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qazyman
 Gurista
Joined: 10/04/06
A Good Sandbox isn't about your characters abilities; It's about the players ability. |
1/30/08 4:07:54 PM#5
The only thing I see stopping EVE is a new game that uses the same formula. One that is updated with newer technology and probably based on land. I'm not holding my breath tho :) |
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1/30/08 4:38:56 PM#6
Originally posted by qazyman
Something I've been curious about is what EVE was like in the beginning as I joined last year. The thing I really love about EVE is the depth and I don't think I'd join any other game that didn't have it. The problem is, EVE's been going for so long and CCP wants to do so much with it, how long would it take another game to even approach the depth EVE has? EDIT: I mean to say, I'd certainly love to see another game like it, it's just EVE already has a what, 10 year start on content? A new game would have a LOT of catching up to do! :P |
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1/30/08 4:40:08 PM#7
When a "Eve on Land" arrives, be sure i will be playing it. No, Eve will never end. CCP has plans for >10 years, and as long Eve improves i will be there. |
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Originally posted by Rayalist Rayalist, I started 4 months after launch and EvE had a lot of grief in the forums about lack of content, no direction and full of bugs. I guess its the same old story with most games. The difference was I could see massive potential and so I kept playing. Space seemed so much bigger because you could travel 15 jumps and see 1 player (in low sec). There was a massive announcement that they broke the 6k barrier with players online at one time. Funny considering 37k+ is the norm almost now. Some of the biggest differences were: No level 4 missions Few ships to choose from If you had a battleship you were god Epic fleets were not around basically it was about 1/3 of the game it is today. To CCP's credit they released some very big and meaningful content and the gaming public started to understand that EVE did not push you into a linear path and that you could pretty much do anything. I almost quit because I couldn't understand why an NPC wasn't telling me to do A then B then C then D.... Bring on legs and walking on planets! |
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1/31/08 12:43:08 PM#9
Originally posted by Shadowlord10 I recently started playing again with a goal in mind and it works great. Before I had always waited for the game to give me a reason to play, but now I made my own reasons and I'm loving it all over again :P |
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1/31/08 6:10:03 PM#10
Originally posted by batolemaeus
Blessings upon your soul |
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1/31/08 9:51:14 PM#11
I hope there isn't an end to Eve-Online anytime soon as I just started playing/dedicating enough time to learn skills. :) As for ambulation - yes, it will be amazing.. After that's released I'll hardly have any reason to play other MMOs :D I still play others from time to time - sometimes I need a break from those ships and need a chance to have an avatar to run around with. |
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2/01/08 1:03:10 AM#12
Originally posted by Lateris Space clouds? "Suddenly, thousands of Trekies whose heads are full of facts of things like the stardate when the Cardassians farted on Deep Space nine are irrlelevant." - hardcoremoviecritic |
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2/01/08 10:42:45 AM#13
Eve is life, Eve ends when life ends.
What i look forward to in Eve is when they merge the Chinese server with Tranquility, i suppose we have to wait until the hardware can support such a merge, but the net result will be awesome.
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2/01/08 10:47:11 AM#14
Eve will never end as long as atleast 1 member of the curent dev team is alive,cause if all of them die,they might be swaped for WoW loving devs and it wont be too long before we see elves,orks and gnomes flying in shuttles.Well eve's lifespan could be increased even more if someone were to kill Zulupark,but that's just my oppinion. |
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2/01/08 3:05:58 PM#15
I <3 Zulupark tbh. |
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When EvE introduces walking on stations the next thing to breath a huge lease of life into it is landing on planets and planetary trade. If a corp can block trade coming or going to a planet and affect prices and supply the game will move into a new generation. Imagine trying to maintain a blockade? Taking it further they could potentially bring in a Tabula Rasa attack system on the planet and with planetary defences firing from the surface... a boy can dream... |
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Metametheus
Novice Member
Joined: 5/24/04
I dont play games with people, I only play games against other people. |
2/02/08 11:21:24 AM#17
Kind of there is a end, but its only emcompasses when you fly to close like I did to the New Eden Gate... give it a try lol. |
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2/02/08 7:26:58 PM#18
As long as developers keep updating the game it will never end. This game is older then most mmorpgs out there and it has been growing every single day, never stoped even after so many years. And all that due to the dedication that CCP has given to this game. The game explores very well the human psychology in wanting more and more and more.. EVE is a universe where humanity figths eachother for theire own space and for more glory and power, there will be always a war to fight, a home to defend, a front to battle. EVE has not yet became outdated and I doubt it ever will, so as long as theres new pilots joining EVE the game will keep going. This game is sandbox for a reason, exactly to keep it as a 2nd dimension of the real world. Do you ask yourself if humans will some day vanish from this universe? Maybe, but we will do our best to improve ourselfs, just as the CCP dev team will do theire best to keep us interested on the game. So, we assume there will never be a end, we will always find a way to survive and the same applies to EVE. I'm not saying the game will live for 100 years, but It wont end anytime soon either. Hope that answered your question ;) |
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2/02/08 7:47:53 PM#19
I've been to the New Eden system but nothing suggested that there was an actual gate outside the background texture. Is there an actual gate, as in the 3d model? What happened when you move too close? |
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2/06/08 7:20:24 AM#20
Originally posted by VultureSkull I highly doubt tranquility and Serenity will merge, unless of course CCP rename the gallante federation and remove democracy from the game, or the Chinese goverment allows the idea of democracy and Gallante back onto Serenity. :P |
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I agree. I can't wait for the avatars this year. And space clouds.
