hehe or perhaps they are panicking that E D (and possibly SC) are going to be taking a good slice of there playerbase away from them?
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hehe or perhaps they are panicking that E D (and possibly SC) are going to be taking a good slice of there playerbase away from them?
As someone who has pledged for both Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous, I'm perfectly happy with that. Both games look amazing and are being made by well-known developers who love the space genre. It's important that we stick together in order to make space sims what they once were, after all.
hehe or perhaps they are panicking that E D (and possibly SC) are going to be taking a good slice of there playerbase away from them?
If so, it looks rather lackluster attempt. OR support is awesome, but there's no commercial version yet, it's graphics are kinda blank, and I don't see any immersion there.
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Just backed Star Citizen for the game I was going to back it in the kickstarter, but I spent more than my budget on Elite: Dangerous and related kickstarters and then never got around to it. Looking forward to it....:smilie:
Just backed Star Citizen for the game I was going to back it in the kickstarter, but I spent more than my budget on Elite: Dangerous and related kickstarters and then never got around to it. Looking forward to it....:smilie:
hehe or perhaps they are panicking that E D (and possibly SC) are going to be taking a good slice of there playerbase away from them?
By the way, if seriously they are more worried about SC, as it is hyped much more and buying ships is very important part of EVE experience. However reading forums those player bases also doesn't mix that well - EVE has been all about "real simulation of society", with economics, and doing freely all kind of scams and ruining game for everyone, because "rules are about to be broken". If I understand correctly, so called "carebears" called by "gankers" flocks en masse to SC. In result EVE has changed their TOS just now, and does not tolerate lot of obvious scams which goes out of borders of acceptable (like doing **** with alt. character, then leaving it be) anymore. Said that one huge gankers guild have bought huge fleet for SC already. However I don't fully get if they understand instancing rules. Seems not and it is just showing off.
If anything, ED and SC will be competition for EVE because they are brand new space sims with new graphics who also has potentially good MP capabilities, and potential subscribers will go to these new games first. They ain't one and only game in town anymore.
Day 1 backer for both Elite and Star Citizen. Elite had the biggest influence on my life as a kid in school, but I happily swallowed up all the Wing Commander and Privateer games as well. I'm just a good traditional space simmer at heart so I don't really take sides. I'll be playing them both to death, but deep down Im still craving for the immersive freedom, imagination heightening, atmospheric richness that the old Elite games always had.
EVE has a right to be worried. I'm sure many of us played EVE at some stage simply because it entertained set of mechanics that echoed Elite's. For me it was both fun and frustrating at the same time, but the frustrations eventually drove me away. I certainly wish them well, I have some great memories from EVE, but its not the game or culture I'm looking for. And I suspect many (ex) EVE players have a similar perception and will flock to either SC or E: D.
EVE has a right to be worried. I'm sure many of us played EVE at some stage simply because it entertained set of mechanics that echoed Elite's. For me it was both fun and frustrating at the same time, but the frustrations eventually drove me away. I certainly wish them well, I have some great memories from EVE, but its not the game or culture I'm looking for. And I suspect many (ex) EVE players have a similar perception and will flock to either SC or E: D.
I had a brief look at EVE but very quickly decided that the combat system didn't appeal to me. I had friends who played the high level game and I watched over their shoulders a few times, but it didn't convince me that the combat at that level was worth the grind: One time a friend took a ginormous battleship in as part of a fleet attacking an enemy space-station, and as far as I could see the combat revolved around them sitting stationary for HOURS slowly knocking the battle-station's health bar down to zero. My friend could literally walk away from the computer during the battle and apparently only needed to check how the battle was going every hour or so. To me it just seemed to lack anything interesting or dramatic at all; though it has to be said the graphics are very pretty.
Thanks for the insights.
Once this game goes active lots of folks come join us, goofing around. Oh well; forums will degenerate considerably too I think. Seen it elsewhere. I don't mind new ppl, but the gankers - I manage without them ....
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Try getting their community to praise consoles in relation to PC's.
Suicide would be easier.
Suicide would be easier.
What is wild is that SC already have half of EVE's numbers in players (250000 Vs. 500000) in pledgers alone.. and SC is a over a year away from release.
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EVE is a fantastic game for its genre, its a mmorpg in the traditional sense. It has far more going for it than its dull and uninspiring combat engine. Its a different game to ED & SC completely in that sense, the only similarity being its set in a space-based environment.
I don't think we'll see a game ever compete with EVE as far as player economy, manufacturing, and logistics goes. Its second to none. I played EVE for around 7 years, was there from week 1 of release, but ditched the life as a combat pilot within a month because I hated it - no cockpit, no joystick, no real skill needed in flying your ship, just point and click and a knowledge of fitting the right mods and pressing the F keys in the right order was the only "skill" involved - that was the impression I got very early on. I was about to quit the game because I was yearning for a proper online Elite back in 2003 and was disappointed when EVE wasn't it. But instead I switched to pure resources gathering and eventually manufacturing aspects of the game and found them interesting enough to stick around for 7 more years - building up a capital ship manufacturing industry from scratch. So apart from combat (which granted plenty of people still find fun), EVE will continue to thrive because it has a player driven economic and political depth and complexity that I'm yet to see matched in other games.
Not my type of game now though. I think ED & SC will take gaming to a new level of immersion in visuals and freedom aspects and make games like EVE that have none-interactive and static background environments look very dated.
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Very friendly the reactions of backers of SC. All players of SC, are welcome to Elite Dangerous. They are part of the family. More personally, I am not a gamer. The only game I have played for several years is Frontier Elite II. If Elite Dangerous did not exist, I will not play SC, or another game. Only Elite Dangerous to make me a backers and I'll play for years certainly on this game because it is sentimental to me and I always dreamed of a modern version. But otherwise, SC is beautiful. I just reproach the business aspect too big
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