Eve Online

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 07-18-2009, 00:44

Oh indeed. It's a strikingly back-handed compliment. However, it does put EVE ahead of games that tie skill/level progression to grinding.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 07-18-2009, 03:36

And the political game is interesting, at least to read about. One of the guys at Rock, Paper, Shotgun did a small series of pieces on EVE a while ago, and there was some interesting stuff. The Goonfleet intelligence service couping Band of Brothers is a fantastic user generated story.

But I'd prefer to read about it to playing it.

**Meneldil** · 07-26-2009, 20:10

I'm thinking about giving it a try, but I'm definitely worried by the addiction factor. I've been addicted to WoW for quite some time, and according to what I've read about EVE, it's simply outright boring if you don't spend quite some time on it.

Oh well, I'll probably download the free trial.

**Monk** · 07-26-2009, 21:13

I played the trial and for me EVE just wasn't that much fun. The amount of information thrown at you on the very first screen is absolutely ridiculous. Learning curve? No. There is no curve. The game throws you at a wall of earth entitled "difficulty plateau" and god help you if you don't grow wings and fly to the top before you crash into the side... The in game tutorials were terrible in my experience, since it was an online trial, I had no manual what-so-ever.

Yet despite that and the obvious sadistic hatred this game had for me, a new player, I actually managed to scrape together an understanding of the game. At least enough to allow me to jump to the nearest star base, and then I was completely lost all over again.

It felt like EVE was an MMO that had spent a lot of time catering to its hardcore fanbase, which is fine, but for me it came at the cost of being able to simply get into the game.

**johnhughthom** · 07-26-2009, 21:42

Originally Posted by Monk

I played the trial and for me EVE just wasn't that much fun. The amount of information thrown at you on the very first screen is absolutely ridiculous. Learning curve? No. There is no curve. The game throws you at a wall of earth entitled "difficulty plateau" and god help you if you don't grow wings and fly to the top before you crash into the side... The in game tutorials were terrible in my experience, since it was an online trial, I had no manual what-so-ever.

Yet despite that and the obvious sadistic hatred this game had for me, a new player, I actually managed to scrape together an understanding of the game. At least enough to allow me to jump to the nearest star base, and then I was completely lost all over again.

It felt like EVE was an MMO that had spent a lot of time catering to its hardcore fanbase, which is fine, but for me it came at the cost of being able to simply get into the game.

My feelings exactly.