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Originally posted by wacked37
I joined EVE in August 2011, and I've personally brought in 4 additional friends.
 
Not that we have actual data, but what if the subscription base is shrinking or stagnant? How does that matter? There are still 30k to 50k concurrent users online. I still see characters from 2003 to yesterday passing through our system. There is plenty of "content" as far as other players is concerned. It's not like dipping below 300k subscriptions somehow makes EVE any less of the amazing MMORPG that it is.

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Originally posted by smh_alot

Originally posted by BizkitNL

Originally posted by troublmaker

Eve is a shrinking game.  Some poor decisions on their part lead to a mass exodus of players.  It is not a dying game however.  It is still bringing in new players and with the PS3 launch of Dust coming out soon I'm sure that will attract more people to the PC Eve game.

Even though that's what people keep saying, the player counter on the login window proves otherwise. It has been growing for a while now, and continues to do so.

 

What does the player counter measure? Is it an accumulative number, where it keeps going up and never down? If the peak concurrent users ingame is being measured with some counter, then it would make for a far more accurate measuring tool imo.

 

As far as I can see it, EVE shows quite a decrease in both Xfire as Raptr (30% decrease) since last Spring. Since interestingly enough they also haven't posted their subscription figures anymore since that time, I'm going with that.

The counter displays actual clients logged in at that time. Now, I'm just saying that I noticed the number being higher and higher on a weekly basis at the times I log in, which is the western-europe peak time.

That said, since the whole world plays on the same server, it might very well be that the USA number has been dropping. I can't say, since I play on different times than they do (Or rather most of them).

Originally posted by wacked37

Not that we have actual data, but what if the subscription base is shrinking or stagnant? How does that matter? There are still 30k to 50k concurrent users online. I still see characters from 2003 to yesterday passing through our system. There is plenty of "content" as far as other players is concerned. It's not like dipping below 300k subscriptions somehow makes EVE any less of the amazing MMORPG that it is.

Pretty much this.

Of course one should not take population decreases lightly, but to me EVE seems to be doing alright, especially considering it's a seven years old niche game. It's a solid game, and that goes a long way.

Things seem to have become much better with the release of the Crucible update and CCP returning to the basics of eve.

Over all I have noticed a increase in new players and interest in the game.