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.
After a year of playing WoW i grew tired of people telling me what i can and cant do with my character. In eve this is not so when you first start in eve your character is unique and you can make it too your own personal taste, sure theres a lot to be learned but thats what makes it fun. Stepping into the unknown.
WoW got very boring after my character entered level 80. There was a need for other people that was not really there whilst grinding.
But the main reason I stpped playing WoW was all the “little kids” playing the game and ruining it for everyone else. Eve online is mainly for mature people who like a nice challenge compeared with simplistic games that have set rules and builds you must follow.
If you do not like complex games dont play eve but if your up for a challenge eve online is for you.
(sorry if my spelling is bad i wrote this on an ipod touch)
While this video is definitely what the average PC gamer would see with EVE, I found it quite the opposite. I recently quit WoW after about 6 years of playing, just because of the combination of new players that are just plain annoying as well as decreased interest overall, and decided to try out EVE.
After a few months playing, I’m loving it. I had tried the trial a few years ago and thought, “Eh, nothing special”, but once I tried again and seriously put some thought and effort into getting my foot into the game, I had and continue to have a blast. The first month or so is basic things, such as learning basic skills and doing mildly interesting stuff, no different than the first levels of WoW really. However, once you get the skills you need, there’s no limit to how much fun you can have. PvP has major consequences, adding a serious “Skill” factor that many complain is missing in MMOs such as WoW. Scamming is ENCOURAGED!!! I mean, really! How often had you wanted to just scam the crap out of someone in WoW to get loads of gold, but you knew you’d get in trouble? Well in EVE, the Devs encourage it! Endless possibilities, endless things to do, and flying around in spaceships shooting people! My kind of game!
I have played Eve on and off since 2003. I always left it for the “new and shiny”….guess what? I always came back to Eve. The maturity level of the characters and the extended learning curve actually make it very attractive.
It weeds out the morons and those too impatient or lacking the mental faculties to grasp all the required information to be successful and have fun in this game.
Last night I logged on and in Local chat a guy was asking for help with level 3 missions…I was on my missions toon and in a Drake (Battle Cruiser) so I offered my help. We chatted in fleet, swapped ship load-outs and did like 3 hours of missions together and just enjoyed a good night of fun.
Like someone else already stated, I can do whatever the heck I want and my character can be whatever I want it to be and be several things at once. My account from 2003 main can fly anything, mine anything and shoot everything.
Keep your dumbed down simplified games and let those who are dumbed down and simple with them!