Feb 06 2010
The Beginner’s Guide to EVE Online
I keep hearing more and more about EVE Online, a game that gives you your own spaceship to upgrade and fight with, and team up with other spaceships to take down bigger spaceships and get better spaceships for yourself. That actually sounds pretty awesome to me, unfortunately, everyone I talk to that plays the game seems to think it’s a pretty colossal waste of time.
After watching this video, I’m rethinking my stance on how cool it all sounds. Especially the mining part, which would seem to take the dullness of Mass Effect 2’s probing and multiply it to infinity.
Why can’t anyone make a spaceship MMO that’s actually easy to get into and fun to play? I’ve got it: FIREFLY ONLINE. Make it so.
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Lol it’s so fuckin true.
It literally takes months to train your skills up to anything worth while, and then when you decide to maybe do something different than what you spent the first 5 months of the game training to do, you can look forward to another excruciatingly long period of training and boredom, rinse, repeat.
Oh and just when you think you’ve figured something out and you have one aspect of the game down, you find out you suck at it and are doing it wrong.
LMAO, so effing true. EVE Online is just about everything that’s wrong with most MMO’s.
Ha, I was considering trying out the trial of this but I won’t bother. It sounds like the epitome of boredom, I’ll take the video’s advice and just off my self now.
Also, what’s with the autoplay advertisements with no mute or pause button Unreality?
Having said that, it isn’t an all out bad game.
I can’t agree that it’s “just about everything wrong with most MMO’s”.. at least you don’t have to grind through endless NPCs if you don’t want to.
It really is a “make your own fun” game. There is no hand holding or being told how to have fun. The downside is it does require the accumulation of a great deal of information in order to enjoy it. It is definitely not a pick up and play kind of game.
I had a lot of fun today in Tash-Murkon when a CEO of a corp got his battle cruiser ass handed to him by a frigate.
There is fun to be had in eve, it just requires effort.
When I made the above comment I’d just logged off from a bad day of Eve and went to my favorite online mag for some laughs, and what should be there but ironically a video on how bad eve can be.
I’m currently playing EVE.. and enjoying it! I don’t agree with the video above. It’s amusing, but not particularly funny. The game just wasn’t for this dude, period. If you don’t like challenging PC games with a learning curve, EVE just isn’t for you. And sure, enough, it’s not just for everyone. It only has about 300k subscribers… as opposed to WoW’s reported 10mil. But yet, personally, I got tired of Wow, and I’m playing EVE instead. EVE just happens to be my cup of tea. And that’s the bottom of line. EVE isn’t ‘what’s wrong with MMOs these days’. That’s so far from the truth. It’s just too demanding for the average PC/Video gamer. You want fast-easy PvP fun? Go play something else. Let the others enjoy this game.