hugely overrated, awful community, scamming, griefing, lack of development, not worth the subscription, lots of botting
The ads are fantastic, the websites sleek, the idea flying in space , make empires, be a trader , a bounty hunter, a pirate. be in a big alliance...
sounds incredible..... i wanted to join for years but my internet wasnt up for it.....2009 i decided to join.
2 years later thousands of hours gameplay later...... i leave sad and bitter.
for $15 a month subscription you expect few bugs, nice graphics , voiceovers, storyline, some shine and polish.....
the game is 8 years old, not 1-2, it isnt multithreaded, or direct x 10, it runs in a low spec laptop, not very demanding graphically.
so you can fly in high security space , where you are mostly protected by police, this is like 15% of the whole universe.
it is also where 80% players are.
what do they do? trade ,run npc missions, mine.
the problems with this game are huge.
there are thousands and thousands of griefers and scammers, which is totally legal, there are bank scams, market scams, space renting scams by big alliances to corps,
once you leave high sec you are prey to pirates , and all kind of scum.
even flying in high sec is not safe, if you have a big freighter ship and want to move stuff , expensive stuff, you can get "suicide ganked" by a couple of ships, the suicide ships get paid insurance, and a third neutral ship steals all your cargo.
there is no law in eve online, the player base specially veterans in big alliances make billions a month from running multiple accounts of extremely high skilled characters, making money like crazy.
very few alliances manage to go to low security space make stations ( like star trek) and keep territory,
any big alliance can move 20-30 40- titan ships, each costing $4000 real money to make ( next to free if you own the moons where the materials to make them are ).
and blow you out of the water.
forget battleships, or x-wing like fighters, war in eve is between ships normal players will never be able to afford, and take YEARS of real life training skills to do.
Then there are even worse issues.
the company that makes the game CCP decided last year to make 2 more games , they took the programers from eve and started making new stuff for other games.
development of eve in the last year and half is grounded to a snail pace, at the moment nobody knows who is developing what.
CCP (makers of eve) has 600 employees mostly on sales marketing ,only about 15-20 work on eve programming, but for reasons nobody understand, to make stuff in eve is so difficult that apparently to re-skin a single ship takes 1 month of artist time.
missions are read a text ...... go to another place kill some enemies, get a thank you text, do it 1000 times more.
the skill tree is learned even if you are ofline, there are 4 races of ships, just to learn caldari battleship 5, you have to learn, caldari frigate1-4, caldari cruiser 1-4 caldari battleship-1-4,
just caldari battleship 5 takes 1 month of real life to learn. and you have to learn all this other skills before, plus mechanical , engeniering missiles/ electronics skills, months and months and months to train.real life time......
the problem with eve is you buy a single player pc game with all the expansions for $40-50 and you get much better graphics , much better sound , better interface, no scumbags trying to rip you off or kill you,
a sense of achivement
eve doesnt have that, eve is a jungle with no law, no honor no word, no real friendships except in tight corporations, and there are thousands of them, most of them die for lack of membership.
real story, happened 3 days ago, big alliance goonswarm, lets an industrial alliance to rent part of their their territory for 30billion credits (a fortune) and the condition of getting 6 free titan ships for everymonth.
the industrials alliance pay the fee 30 billion, get 8 big transport ships with all the parts for titans, space stations etc, ( worth many many billions)....
the big alliance goonswarm waits for the delivery, and blows the whole convoy and steals the contents (which were destined to them anyway).
why? because it feels good and they can do it.
no morals no honor no law, this is eve.
the list of bugs/improvements (selected to be sorted)
, not the real list which is 1000s of players ideas, is 200+.
the game is 8 years old. CCP make $50million +profit a year apparently
for $15 a month you are renting a server and getting expansions which add nothing new.
this isnt WOW, where you get new quests new areas new things to do, a typical eve expansion is a few megabytes big .
the last one called incarna, added 1 room called captain quarters where you cant do anything but sit down on a couch and watch some eve ads on a fake tv.......
this was on june and is not even finished, nobody even knows when is it going to be finished, as CCP is working in 2 other games completely unrelated to eve, one of them a shooter for PS3.
the biggest news in eve are alliance bosses stealing all the money from the alliance wallet, or stuff like that,
in fact there is a corporation that teaches new players to play, several big corps/alliances have been declaring war on it for months on end, which means you pay money to the police legally and you can attack any corp member in high security space and the police does nothing... this is actually how wars in high security work , is a game mechanic.....
lovely