im willing to wager most, not all, of the EVE people do not have PS3s

Did you guys see a huge influx of Eve players this past weekend? I was expecting 1,000s considering how big the Eve player base is, yet I thought the turn out in general was pretty paltry all weekend.

It seemed to be one of the slowest weekends all summer.

Is anyone worried? what are your thoughts?

I think most Eve players who have PS3s signed up for beta as soon as they could and got keys already. The rest may no be interested.

i did notice a lot of players with crappy gear, but I think it was quiet because we have been playing this map for over a month now and people are getting very bored of it.
when it first came out I was so excited to get home and play, and now the last 2 weekends i have played 2 or 3 matches.

so i think when the new patch drops and people can group this will change everything.

i know a few of my corp mates played a few games and then gave up when they couldn't group

One thing players are forgetting is this IS a beta. The part I don't find appealing about BETAs are that people need to be constructive and understanding. Instead they get all pissy and rage quit. The point is we are supposed to HELP with development, not treat it like a published game and whine about it.

So yeah we are losing players to burnout, but in the end they aren't such of the quality that BETAs are really looking for. It's the dedicated players who slug it out with/without bugs and suggest constructive ways to make corrections WITHIN THE PARAMETERS of the original game design.

We get too many people who make suggestions without understanding what EVE universe really means, and then the EVE players get really LOUD as we tend to do about that.

Play the BETA. The more the better. But be damned sure you get on here, post about it, and when making suggestions, please take it all into context with EVE Online. Understand that we are likely to bite heads when we see something people are asking for that is just not EVE Universe.

I guess also not everyone is eager to get in so between receiving the news and actually doing the signup process, adding to that the ungodly download size, I supose people will come in during this week and probably most that are interessed will be inside by the next weekend.