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Shogrus Orn
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.18 14:44:00 -
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I joined the Dust 514 beta having never played EVE online, and I'm curious to see how many people are like me versus coming from the EVE Online community. I didn't see any way to create a poll on the forums, so I just made a quick SurveyMonkey poll. Take it and I'll post the results in a few days!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DJDY5CL |
Tbone322
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
124
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Posted - 2012.07.18 14:47:00 -
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I took it, I don't play anymore but I dabbled for a little bit months ago |
RolyatDerTeufel
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
1648
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Posted - 2012.07.18 14:51:00 -
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have only ever tried EVE cause of Dust, have been there almost a year now.
Took the survey. |
Shogrus Orn
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:15:00 -
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Wow, there were a lot of responses really quickly!
Out of 30 respondents so far:
17 (57%) Play EVE Online
13 (43%) Only play Dust 514
I was surprised it was so even. I expected it to slant more heavily towards EVE.
If you haven't taken the survey yet, please do! I'll post updated results as they come in. |
Zekain Kade
BetaMax.
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:17:00 -
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I have never played EVE. |
Roldrage
Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:19:00 -
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Zekain Kade wrote:I have never played EVE.
This.
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PEEEEEEETREEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:31:00 -
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Roldrage wrote:Zekain Kade wrote:I have never played EVE. This.
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Nellantar Ballsinya
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:37:00 -
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I've been playing EVE for 4 years. |
SHADOWSFIRE514
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:38:00 -
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i played 2 weeks of eve last month until the missions got too repetitive and i wasn't making friends |
EnglishSnake
Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
1012
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:42:00 -
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Nearly played a year of EVE |
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Maken Tosch
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:48:00 -
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Four years in Eve. |
Shogrus Orn
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:49:00 -
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And just like that we have 60 responses!
Out of 60 respondents so far:
36 (59%) Play EVE Online
25 (41%) Only play Dust 514
Do the numbers surprise anyone? I thought the split would be closer to 75/25.
If you haven't taken the survey yet, please do! I'll post updated results as they come in. |
RolyatDerTeufel
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
1648
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:49:00 -
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EnglishSnake wrote:Nearly played a year of EVE
I'll be a year, next month. |
Thick McRun Fast
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:55:00 -
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I would think the EvE side will just slowly increase.
While very few players as a whole on both sides ever visit the forums, I think the EvE side is slightly more in tune with following forums and playing the game outside of the game.
A good chunk of DUSTs single universe advertising was to get more people to try EvE as well. |
EnglishSnake
Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
1012
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Posted - 2012.07.18 20:57:00 -
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ffs connection reset wtf forums
I expected more non eve players tbh |
OMEN STAR
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Posted - 2012.07.18 21:09:00 -
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EnglishSnake wrote:ffs connection reset wtf forums
I expected more non eve players tbh
yup same here
maybe once it goes open beta or at least after release |
RolyatDerTeufel
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
1648
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Posted - 2012.07.18 21:25:00 -
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there is a GM thing next to this post, but no GM posts...
 how can this be? |
Iron Wolf Saber
BetaMax.
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Posted - 2012.07.18 21:27:00 -
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GM Ninja is the most mysterious GM of them all. |
Sha Kharn Clone
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2012.07.18 21:27:00 -
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done |
RolyatDerTeufel
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
1648
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Posted - 2012.07.18 21:33:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:GM Ninja is the most mysterious GM of them all.
I bet my scout suit is better then his. |
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Lucius Gabnar
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:15:00 -
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Currently an inactive account on EVE but I did play for about five years.
I used to be an Xbox gamer but when CCP through their lot in with Sony, I picked up a PS3 for dust.
My only regret is that no one on playstation owns a headset... and there is no Party chat. |
Lewis Shinypants
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:19:00 -
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Lucius Gabnar wrote:Currently an inactive account on EVE but I did play for about five years.
I used to be an Xbox gamer but when CCP through their lot in with Sony, I picked up a PS3 for dust.
My only regret is that no one on playstation owns a headset... and there is no Party chat.
You've got to turn it on. : P it's silly but. It's true |
Mr TamiyaCowboy
Condotta Rouvenor
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:21:00 -
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7yrs playing eve, highly enjoyed it, soundly hated it to.
dust to me is an extension to eve and my ingame life/contacts there. |
Dred B Bourne
Dred's Mission Runners
0
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:23:00 -
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played eve off and on since 2004. It is all about the people you meet.
Took the survey |
Gatsu Scarz
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:24:00 -
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Never played EVE. |
carl von oppenheimer
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
158
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:27:00 -
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Started in 2007 so this is my 6th year in EvE and I still haven't seen it all.
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Ranyk Djorn
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
3
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Posted - 2012.07.18 22:29:00 -
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Played about 2 months worth of EVE just to get a feel for the universe, but was really just on there cuz I couldn't wait for dust |
Belzeebub Santana
SVER True Blood
Unclaimed.
409
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Posted - 2012.07.18 23:34:00 -
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Easiest poll ever!
Been watching the EvE universe but never jumped in, mainly a FPS player but enjoy everything on PC and PS3.
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Minmatar Slave 74136
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
291
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Posted - 2012.07.18 23:56:00 -
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Over a year in EVE, need to re-up my account again this friday. |
Aijul
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
55
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Posted - 2012.07.19 00:15:00 -
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Never played or truly cared for EVE.
I only joined the beta after seeing someone from my friend's list playing it, then remembering "OH! It's that game from E3 2011 that's supposed to have cross-platform/cross-game interaction!", going to IGN and getting a key.
It has potential. |
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Shogrus Orn
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
5
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Posted - 2012.07.19 00:48:00 -
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We topped out the SurveyMonkey poll at 100 respondents, so here are the final results!
Out of 100 respondents so far:
59 (59%) Play EVE Online
41 (41%) Only play Dust 514
There seem to be a lot of people who made a distinction between playing EVE currently and playing it at any point in the past, and my survey didn't account for that, so might have to make another one that lets people make the distinction. Thanks for the great response, and I hope you found it interesting! |
Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2012.07.19 01:38:00 -
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Lewis Shinypants wrote:Lucius Gabnar wrote:Currently an inactive account on EVE but I did play for about five years.
I used to be an Xbox gamer but when CCP through their lot in with Sony, I picked up a PS3 for dust.
My only regret is that no one on playstation owns a headset... and there is no Party chat. You've got to turn it on. : P it's silly but. It's true
This. Voice comms is in the options menu, and the default setting is "off" for no good reason I can think of.
Having the option is good. Turning it off by default is incredibly short-sighted.
But back on-topic....
I started out with Arcade machines - Street Fighter and Pac-Man machines at a local dairy (corner store, for those NOT in New Zealand). I soon moved onto PC gaming, but it took a LONG time to talk my parents into owning a PC of their own, so I had to play when visiting family or friends. The first game I played on PC was Civilisation. It was AMAZING, and I was terrible at it. As I grew up, several friends got Amiga systems, and we played games like Populous, and Turrican 2, and Sim City, and many, MANY others. It was in those days I first played Grand Prix Unlimited (that game was AWFUL, but hilarious) and Lotus Turbo Challenge II (best opening theme EVER), and realised that I'm truly and incurably horrible at racing games (I had learned to be competent at Civilisation by this stage, so I no long felt like it was an insurmountable flaw). I also got into a larger variety of PC games, like One Must Fall: 2097, Frontier: Elite II, Sid Meier's Pirates! (I originally played Pirates! Gold) and the Star Control series, all of which I still play now in some form (the PSP remake of Pirates! is amazing. If you own a PSP, it's totally worth getting). I also still play Civilisation (well... Revolution on PS3... so it's not a REAL Civ game)
Even now, I still enjoy games that capture the spirit of those classics. Those games that offer fast-paced action (whether it's hands-on or not), resource management, political intrigue (whether scripted or dynamic), all rolled into a single package - and all of which influence events in the game. I love having games that I can pick up and play for a few minutes of mindless chaos, OR switch to long-term mode and settle down for HOURS of complex and involved planning and strategy. I played Star Wars: Battlefront 2 at a friend's house, and I still hope for BF3, but in the meantime, Elite Squadron on PSP has some surpisingly good expansions on the idea which actually remind me a lot of the interplay with EVE and DUST (the "Conquest" mode has planetary combat, space combat, and the ability to attack the ground map from on board a spaceship or to attack the spaceships with ground-based weapons).
As the years went by, I stopped relying on my parents, and their rapidly-dating PC (although they did occasionally update it). I was working in a burger place though, and didn't have much in the way of disposable income to throw on keeping a gaming rig up do date. As well as having this limitation, I had something many people refer to as a "social life" - in my case, it involved several layers. Gaming was one part of my social life, where I met people in BBS games and later in actual online play (wow, a whole INTERNET full of people!). But I also had LARP (Live Action RolePlay, for those who don't know) - a notoriously expensive hobby. On top of both of those, I sometimes went out drinking with friends, some of whom I knew through my other hobbies, others I met through work. As I did this, I got to know more people, and ended up spending more and more of my money on things that AREN'T gaming. Given the obvious impracticality of keeping a PC up-to-date while doing such expensive things on a Burger King budget, I instead opted for a console. The PS2 was the new thing at this stage, and that's what I got.
I've since moved on, and now also own a PSP, and a PS3. I technically have two PCs, but one was hopelessly obsolete even before I bought it, and the other one was also obsolete, but not as obviously so. My girlfriend, who is also my flatmate, owns a PSP as well, and a DS and a Macbook pro (which I use more often than my own PCs, because it makes them look bad). She also uses both of my consoles, the PS2 for Kingdom Hearts and KH2, and the PS3 for Assassin's Creed and Mini Ninjas.
I've been into gaming for so long, and in so many forms, that I can't actually sum it up in a TL;DR version. I'm not quite 30 yet, but my gaming experience goes back further than I do.
TL;DR version - The reason I got interested in DUST dates back further than I do. It's related to ALL the games I've enjoyed, particularly those with a good blend of fast-paced combat AND complex strategy and planning. It seems like, if CCP do it well, this could be the summation of everything I ever enjoyed in gaming. |
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