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EVE Online to Implement “Grief Counseling” for Lost Ships - MMORPG.com
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EVE Online to Implement “Grief Counseling” for Lost Ships - MMORPG.com
The biggest problem facing EVE Online is convincing players to stick around. Courtesy of friend and former colleague of ours, Steve Messner, PC Gamer reports that developer CCP is implementing a company-wide initiative to solve to problem of players bailing-ship: including grief counseling for their first big death.
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"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
I'M CALLING IT.
Aloha Mr Hand !
It would totally destroy the game. I don't care what anyone says Classic wow was/is a success again because everything has value & meaning.
Lets be honest MMO's are all about the time investment and what your time represents . If you put 100+ hours into a MMO and nothing has value , whats the point ? Its really that simple. I believe there is this whole psychology aspect to MMO's that no one really gets and then we all scratch our heads when new MMO after new MMO fails.
A MMO has to have substance and meaning to your time investment.
Aloha Mr Hand !
Grief Counselor: There, there. It sucks to be you.
New Player: Can you help me?
Grief Counselor: I can help you better understand that it sucks to be you.
New Player: What can I do!
Grief Counselor: Do what you did before, up until you got blown up, and then don't get blown up next time.
New Player: You are no help at all.
Grief Counselor: There, there. How does that make you feel?
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ps: eve echoes is amazing
I guess it's a videogame equivalent of Thoughts and Prayers (without actually doing anything to address the actual problem).
Not gonna lie, I'm no fan of rouge-like perma death gameplay these days; used to not annoy me as much. I'm thinking more along the lines of SWG where your stuff breaks over time and with death rather than boom all gone start a 0 after one fuck up. It kept crafters in business and gave me something to do, I loved it. Even though it hurt when that 20mil Geo Sonic Blaster broke, it gave me a reason to hunt for a better one. No joke I had to schedule shopping days into my game time just to re-equip my character after all my stuff became too degraded to use.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
....and not much else, I imagine.
Thank you for your time!
I coulda used one
Only type of counseling that is needed tbh.
We had Empires run by Emperors, we had Kingdoms run by Kings, now we have Countries...
Because, currently for major part of new comers to EVE, the game appears to be a solo game with very hostile environment of scammers, gankers, and other nasty groups of players, who are not looking for a fair PvP fight, but only seeking ways to spoil someone else fun in EVEe.
I spent weeks reading everything I could find before first starting, and I learned of many pitfalls and how to avoid ganking and griefing, most everything except....proper ship fitting.
So I scrimped and saved to buy my first battle cruiser, slotted it with whatever modules my meager skills could support and then tackled a tier 3 mission. (Without reading up on it first)
So of course I triggered the spawns all wrong and with my poor fitting I was quickly webbed, scram'd and blown from space.
I was pretty pissed because I had definitely flown a ship I could not afford to lose and I really had no idea about what mistakes I had made to suffer such a fate.
Now, a lesser pilot might have quit at this low point, having lost a month of progress but as I had just paid for a months sub on two accounts as the trial period had ended, I took an alternate approach.
I cheated. Yep, went out and bought two billion ISK, from gold sellers instead of CCP even, (better exchange rate) so that I could now well afford to lose some ships without too much concern.
So my thought to better retain new players is to have the grief counselors first explain what was done wrong, then explain how the PLEX system works, and then offer to sell them a PLEX at a big discount, say 50% off.
Big wins all the way around I'm thinking.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon