I dont think so... Every week that graph looks more and more ominous ! I

I have never seen a trend like that in the history of EvE - online... It should be turning already ..!

I didn't cancel because of Incarna or a perceived neglect of the pew-pew. I'm happy with both of those things and I'd shine CCP's shoes any day.

What I wasn't happy with was continuing to be charged after trying to temporarily cancel for financial reasons. Twice. That was two months I just couldn't afford at the time. I only finally successfully ‘canceled’ when billing failed due to insufficient funds in my account.

Originally posted by Kaelaan21

Originally posted by Felconian

Well .. i hope they fix it ... by the look of that graph... Someone is going to get fired if they dont turn it arround.

According to the graph (and I am assuming it is like this in most MMOs as well), numbers will expect to climb again and peak somewhere near the beginning of Februrary and then decline until it hits the year low in the summer. In the yearly graph, you can see the trend from 2010.

 

This also has a lot to do with the scheduled releases of expansions. Whatever the winter expansion brings it will look like a hit, because eve's numbers naturally swell in the winter anyway. Then all the I told you so people will start to jump in on the band waggon in April and the cycle repeats itself. This is nothing new and I've seen it with countless expansions.

 

All CCP needs to do is include an option to view an image while docked if a player doesn't want to see WiS and problem solved. Then all of us vets will simply ignore the parts of the game we do not want to deal with. 

The 'trend' might be there year in year out.

The big problem is that there has been 2.4% growth out of 350-400k people over the past 2 years.

Compared to the growth we saw before, this is practically nil.

It is also CSM's point of view that the graph will plummet as people begin to leave before the winter exp hits.

With Seleene (former CCP dev) calling CCP out on the 0.0 dev blog recently to say 'you can't deliever this by this year', things are not looking good.

Clearly null-sec stuff needs a lot of attention and refreshment (pve newbie player here enjoying the game a lot, but i can see this clearly as well)  but there is a lot of moaning/on the cusp of whining here that is not going to encourage new players to the game.  Better to discuss what is needed to make the game better in this forum imo instead of doomsaying.

I think EVE fills a niche that no other game does for the moment, so CCP shouldn't worry too much about losing subscribers...yet

Originally posted by Komandor

I think EVE fills a niche that no other game does for the moment, so CCP shouldn't worry too much about losing subscribers...yet

It is 8 years old so it is not entirely dumb to be a bit worried, but World of darkness online will probably take over the torch when Eve becomes 10 years...

Eve is a great game but great games ages just like anything else and sooner or later will any MMO start to loose players, even Wow feels that now.

WOW that drop is getting bad.... Uhmm ... when does summer end ... it's been the excuse for the last 10 months ?