A Brief Comment About EVE
Dec. 4th, 2008 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigLately, CCP, the makers of EVE Online, have been doing an ad campaign for their new expansion (QUantum Rise) as well as trying to drum up new subscriptions.
I liked EVE when I played it, for the most part. It was interesting and different, and it had some good things about it. (You can read one of my earlier comments about EVE Online here.) But I've noticed something about their big events and what frustrates me about them: I never got a chance to see any of this in the game. The current event is this massive invasion of Gallente space by an Amaari faction, with thousands of ships jumping in and having at it.
Very cool, even if they didn't use thousands of ships in the game, but it's still something I would have loved to have taken part in. But for players, really, the only options were: Find a corp. Actually, make that option. All this stuff going on really didn't mean anything; you had to join a major corp, and frankly, the choices for doing that were 'bad' and 'worse.' Plus add in a completely explitable and laissez-faire in-game economy and, well. Yeah, nothing to recommend it for me. =)
I'm actually looking forward to Star Trek Online, to see how that will be. Though it will probably be, at best bland, and at worst either dumbed down to an incredible degree or filled with PvPers. I don't know how, but they'll find a way.
I liked EVE when I played it, for the most part. It was interesting and different, and it had some good things about it. (You can read one of my earlier comments about EVE Online here.) But I've noticed something about their big events and what frustrates me about them: I never got a chance to see any of this in the game. The current event is this massive invasion of Gallente space by an Amaari faction, with thousands of ships jumping in and having at it.
Very cool, even if they didn't use thousands of ships in the game, but it's still something I would have loved to have taken part in. But for players, really, the only options were: Find a corp. Actually, make that option. All this stuff going on really didn't mean anything; you had to join a major corp, and frankly, the choices for doing that were 'bad' and 'worse.' Plus add in a completely explitable and laissez-faire in-game economy and, well. Yeah, nothing to recommend it for me. =)
I'm actually looking forward to Star Trek Online, to see how that will be. Though it will probably be, at best bland, and at worst either dumbed down to an incredible degree or filled with PvPers. I don't know how, but they'll find a way.
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Date: 2008-12-04 08:52 pm (UTC)Though, I think having a torn shirt during an away mission should be worth a damage buff. ;)
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Date: 2008-12-05 02:36 am (UTC)I'm ALREADY cringing at the thought of this! =)