Maken Tosch
DUST University
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Posted - 2016.03.24 02:35:00 -
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Michael-J-Fox Richards wrote:Just curious, at this point with only a month left. Why bother going on? Also eve sucks and PC gaming is whack lol
Can't tell if legitimately serious or troll bait.
But I'll bite anyways.
Eve Online doesn't suck for me. Maybe it does for YOU but it never sucked for me. Perhaps you are just not compatible with the nature of the game from which Dust 514 derives its nature. If that is the case then Dust 514 should never have been compatible with you either as they both share a common nature.
That nature being that it is very cut throat for the players who live in it. It is a nature that almost all other MMOs like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, and others do their best to avoid. Because those other MMOs have grown so accustomed to having very large player bases numbering in the millions it is likely that the the reason they avoid this very nature is because doing so would make the game more niche and thus they will likely lose players. At least the ones who are averse to living in a world where anyone can get away with almost anything including scamming, corp theft, suicide ganks in high sec, and other such things.
But Eve Online has always lived on as a niche game. It never reached anywhere near the player base size that other MMOs have had the fortune of experiencing. It wasn't until a couple a few years ago that Eve Online reached over 500,000 subscribers.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/28/eve-online-hits-500-000-subscribers-heads-into-second-decade/
Unfortunately I don't think that number is accounting for the number of alt accounts that each player actually controls. Assuming that every player has about 3 accounts, that brings it closer to like 166,000 unique players. Of course the number is much smaller when you take into account how many of them are logged in at any given hour of the day. That's a very small number. Yet CCP is still managing to thrive off of that extremely small player base and able to continuously put out free expansions while taking advantage of the revenue they gain from the PLEX system.
Obviously CCP doesn't seem to be experiencing any money troubles since they were able to recently upgrade their Tranquility server to such an extent that Jita local hardly experienced any TiDi (time dilation, aka time slowing down) when over 1,000 players were in that one system. And that's just in one system. That's still not including the thousands of other systems that New Eden has.
And if CCP really is having money troubles, they wouldn't be banning so many players who actively run over 20 accounts at once using ISBoxer's multi-broadcasting feature while running a mining or incursion fleet with every ship responding to a single click of the mouse at once. Normally that's impossible for one player who doesn't use that part of ISBoxer's feature*. Think about it. That's at least $300/month from one such player that CCP is intentionally denying itself from earning.
Now, assuming your comment is still not troll bait at this point, judging from what I see, Eve doesn't suck to me primarily because I'm compatible with it. It's a game that enables players to get involved with real-world projects such as Project Discovery in collaboration with the Human Protein Atlas (Google it).
It's a game where CCP and its community actively gets involved with charity events (see Plex for Good).
It's a game where players are helping other players deal with real-world depression and thoughts of suicide (no joke).
It's a game where if the community loses a player because one of them died or if someone they love died, then that community rallies together to help that player or their family deal with the situation.
And finally, it's also a game that is the subject of many lectures in various colleges and universities whose curriculum covers economics and political science because the game presents an opportunity to see this grand social experiment taking place. Meanwhile a few colleges who are not too focused on Eve are actually providing courses involving MOBAs like League of Legends. Yes, there is an actual university that offers LoL Scholarships. I kid you not.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/01/08/second-us-college-now-offering-league-of-legends-scholarship/#34e5c36035f2
Now imagine a university in the future offering Eve Online scholarships for business or political science majors. After all, running a massive in-game alliance as big as Goonswarm does require the same level of skill as you would see needed to run General Electric.
* - To be clear, CCP didn't say that you can't use ISBoxer in general. They just say that you can't use its multi-broadcasting or multi-plexing feature while playing Eve Online. You can use its other features. Just not that one in particular.
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