EVE turns 6, when do you start this game?

Kizion

6 year now. 300 K subs sounds cool, and when did you start playing this game?   Why doyou fall for it ?

Jacinta

September 2005 here.  A world of open PvP and looting set in a Sci-Fi trading universe drew me in (didn't start as a combat oriented person myself but like the idea of risk in travel.  It adds spice to a gaming experience).  The friends I've made, corp I'm in and general political shenanigans keep me in.  Plus the fact that there is space for the solo mission-runner in hi-sec, the small-time trader, the mega-corporation builder, the deep-space explorer and the 0.0 strategic analyst all to inhabit and succeed in the EVE universe.  No other MMO I've played has given so many options for so many different play-styles to be successful.

 

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DonTrump

Early 04

Single server

Real economy and trading

Zero instances (nowhere to hide)

Reputation means something

Totally player driven

Real politics

Off the charts complex

Skill system

Still learn something new everyday

Great devs

Great players

Tezcat

 December 2003. Very few kids play Eve as it's just to complex for them and they don't have the patience to plan ahead. I've tried wow before and that's just mind numbing repetitiveness and full of foul mouthed poorly mannered kids.

Cosner

November 06 for me..... its the single universe and complexity of the game that has kept me there.... no charcater classes or levels .... just train what I want and do what I wish .... perfect.

 

Cosner

cw2i

March '04. I've left a few times when corporations collapsed and I didn't want to find another, but always come back to it. Game just keeps getting better (despite changes I may not have desired), the control players are given, either as individuals or as a group is unmatched in any other game.

Lordmonkus

Beta vet here.

Why did I fall for it ?

That's a tough question for me. Before Eve the only MMO I ever played was Neocron. I didn't play Everquest or DaoC though I had friends that did at the time. I entered Eve pretty much a clean slate so I didn't have any preconceptions to bring over from other games. At first in beta I really did not like Eve but that was because I only mined. I bought reatail because my friends did but never mined (mining skill still at 2 and proud of it). Over the years I have taken short breaks from Eve to play WoW and a couple othe rgames and really it's after playing those other games it made me realize that Eve is a superior game for me and the type of game I want to play.

There is no one thing that CCP or Eve does that made me fall for it rather than what other games couldn't do. It's everything about Eve for me, the way everything works together. It's even the devs, I have yet to see a cooler bunch of people that make games.

Krayzjoel

Early 08 for me. This a fantastic game..bottom line.

SomeOldBloke

December 03 to January 05 and since March 09...

Taram

I Beta Tested EVE from Beta Phase 2 all the way up till release.  At release I didn't purchase but kept tabs on the game through free trials periodically.  It wasn't until 2005 when the CU hit in SWG that I finally purchased an EVE account.  I went back to SWG at that time though and stayed there till the NGE... then I came back to EVE and have been here ever since (with a couple short breaks to try other games).  

What makes me love EVE so much is the fact that it's totally up to me as to what I do.  I can do anything I wish within the game, there's so much freedom it's sometimes daunting   I love that what I do affects my reputation within the game and that my reputation actually means something.  I love that my actions actually impact players around me within the game and through my corporation my actions impact thousands, if not tens of thousands, of other players in the game.  This is what makes EVE so awesome... what we do matters... who we are matters.... It's a truely evolving world around us within the game and that is what makes EVE so special.

 

 

nurgles

September 2005

I had never tried a single MMORPG, eve was the game I was waiting for. A science fiction single server persistent world.

A friend forwarded me the "Eve never fades" movie which i still think has the best soundtrack of all the eve videos.

miagisan

7 months ago

kattehus

Puh. I can't remember when I started playing, but it's been a while.

I also can't explain why I fell for it, or why I've stuck with it. It just draws me back, somehow.

qazyman

Sept 05 strangely enough. As others have said, the ability to chart off in so many different paths and be successful. I also think the success and continued development of the game has had allot to do with it.

Minsc

Since beta phase 5 here. Took a 6 month break after the first few months of launch and then after coming back have had an active account since. What really attracted me to the game is the openness of the game and the ability to do what I want instead when I want.

I also like the open PVP nature of the game even though I'm not a hard-core pvp'er.

APRAurore

I started in Februrary 2005 but knew about the game from 2003. I meant to try it but friends got me into other games and it was about 2 years after I first saw the boxes in my local GAME that I decided to give it a try. My main though is much newer, since it took me a few rolls to get a character I was happy with.

 

What draws me to EvE? The nature of the game itself. It's the game I grow the least bored with and is now the game I've played the longest out of all MMOs. Sure I still get bored with it and take breaks, but I always come back.

Ekibiogami

07 30 2005

44.7Mill Sp

Why do I love the game and Have the socks? everything thats been posted.

Mcgreag

My first char was created in July 2003 but it wasn't until June 2005 that I really started playing (with a new char created in 2004).

I had been playing SWG but the CU (the one that came before NGE) killed the game for me. So I was looking for something new. I tested several MMOs including WoW, DAOC, AO, EQ2 and CoH but I just couldn't get myself to like the class/level system all those games sported, felt too limiting.

A lot of the same with content of the gaming worlds, for example when I tested WoW my main grievance was with spawning and behavior of mobs, the exact same mob always spawned at the exact same place, walked the exact same path and had one of two behaviors, either ignore you until you attacked it or attack as soon as you came in range. Compare that with the complex behavior of SWG mobs with mothers defending their children and herbivores running away of you scared them etc and it felt like night and day.

So in the end I found the only good sandbox game left on the market after SWGs death and that was EVE, while I still think pre CU SWG was better than EVE in many aspects I think CCP has the skill and longterm commitment to make EVE the ultimate game.

x_rast_x

Mid-2007 here.

It's kind of weird - I started off mining, then I got big into Factional Warfare, and now my mining skills are turning out to be useful again as I've kind of morphed into a combat industrialist - I take all the garbage plex loot that normally gets left behind, reprocess it into its component minerals, and turn those into ships and ammunition, as well as hauling out T2 modules and running a small market in our deep lowsec base.

I'm still having as much as fun in EvE as the day I joined and I haven't even seen a quarter of what the game has to offer.  I'm thinking of moving out of nullsec eventually as I have a standing offer to join a major alliance now, but pewpewing in cheap AFs and intrys is just way too much fun to walk away from right now

Revthought

Originally posted by Ekibiogami


07 30 2005
44.7Mill Sp
Why do I love the game and Have the socks? everything thats been posted.

 

6-23-06

51 million sps. :P

Brain-dead

I have been playing off and on since launch. I dont think I was in the beta, though I know I was at least on the forums during the beta. I've been playing long enough to remember the drama surrounding M0o (or was it Mo0? I always forget).

I have been gone for months at a time (at one point over a year), but I always end up coming back.

kwai

Originally posted by Kizion


6 year now. 300 K subs sounds cool, and when did you start playing this game?   Why doyou fall for it ?

 

I have been playing since closed beta of eve and then i started somewhat late in retail eve, didnt start before august 2003.

Why i fall for it, it has allmost everything you can ask for in a mmorpg.

Kyleran

On May 25th it will be exactly 2 years since I first took the plunge.

Why do I stay with it? Because I can take breaks and still train skills so that when I return I can play the game a whole new way.

The offline skill training is one of the greatest draws for me.

and the rest of the game isn't half bad either. 

Ekibiogami

Originally posted by Revthought

Originally posted by Ekibiogami


07 30 2005
44.7Mill Sp
Why do I love the game and Have the socks? everything thats been posted.

 

6-23-06

51 million sps. :P

 

I made the Mistake of letting it go laps for 6 months

Brain-dead

 

December 2003. Very few kids play Eve as it's just to complex for them and they don't have the patience to plan ahead.

Yeah, I've noticed that too. Eve is the closest thing to an "adults only" game I have seen so far.

 

I also like the open PVP nature of the game even though I'm not a hard-core pvp'er.

I've never deliberately PvPed in the game. Not once. But I LOVE the danger an all-PvP atmosphere provides. It is something that was totally lacking in other MMOs I played.

I like the sink-or-swim mentality of Eve. I Love that all the major dram in the game is player generated via player wars in nullsec space.

 

I made the Mistake of letting it go laps for 6 months

I was worse than that...I've been playing since launch and am only now brushing up to 13 million.

Enkindu

11/2004 with a 10 month break for extended wife aggro.

Nothing like it out there.  Eve pretty much ruined other MMOs for me.