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Steer clear of a sinking ship.
Celt0r
Member Posts: 67
I have been following eve for 3 years since I played planetarion.
I signed up for beta - got accepted to beta 2.
Upon retail, I bought the game for 50, convinced 4 friends from neocron to each buy an account(at full price of $50)rabbi fang,rabbi vamp, doob, psyker.
2 weeks later convinced my brother to buy a copy. Another 50.
A month later he buys a second account. Another 40.
Fast forward 12 months, and buying two more copies and we come to 3 weeks ago, when I contact support about reclaiming 3 accounts.
First lovely [GM]Panzer lies to me and tells me I have forfeited my rights to the account, that the current player wouldnt be banned and could keep them.
I pressed the issue, and got the accounts, which were promptly banned for 7 years.
I ask for proof of the reason for banning(selling in game goods on ebay), which they will not provide.
After threatening legal action, the banning reason is changed to "Reason: EULA violations for illegal transferal of accounts and givning log-in information to non-registered users."
I contacted support because I HADNT transferred the accounts, so that reason is null(and no, they wont prove it either).
The other reason is simply that I shared the login with my BROTHER, who has bought 3 full price copies of eve in 1 year.
The real reason I was banned was because I dared try get support to help me against a "special" user.
What I didn't know was that this special user had bought GM's, support staff, and even in-game helpers.
I have e-mails and chatlogs proving that support was biased, leaking confidential e-mails and information, do CCP care? No, they closed ranks and ignore it.
The game is a timesink, it has barely any roleplay(PRM and CVA descends into smack talk).
They introduce new items and skills, purely to keep you paying for the time it takes to learn for them, and acquire them.
Every deadline is missed, almost every piece of content has still yet to appear, they leave bugs unfixed for months until the next patch.
Now they introduced so-called "account services" which take 40 to change your avatar, or transfer a character to a new accounts.
That's 40 for one.
Of course, the community is outraged at this blatant money grab, so a few hours later it's posted that it was a "mistake" and the prices have been lowered.
Would the "mistake" have been "fixed" if their wasnt any outrage?
Not likely.
World of Warcraft.
Matrix Online.
Jump to Lightspeed.
Face of Mankind.
Neocron - Beyond: Dome of York.
All these are looking ace, and what are CCP doing?
Scaring away people who have been loyal supporters for 3 years.
Good job CCP, you wont be prospering much longer.
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I think it is funny that you played the game for 12 months and even your brother has 3 accounts and the subscription total for eve continues to rise and there are more and more players playing during peak times and yet you seem to claim it is a sinking ship. Your logic amuses me. Lets just state the truth, you got shafted, for whatever reason, by ccp and you are mad at the game.
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Rich Cook.
Heres a better senario for you.
I left eve to try lineage 2 well when i saw lineage 2 suc-ed, I tryed to log back in eve:O(
Well guess what someone "i think i know who" hacked my accounts and SOLD them on EBAY<-----EULA VIOLATION.
Well it took over 1 month and something like 10-12 emails to support...about the 5-6th email they gave the account back to me!!!
Then within 2 hours they took the account back "banned"...5-6 more emails and they gave me the account back again...BUT WITH NO IN GAME AVATAR-CHAR.
1 LAST EMAIL FINDS THEY TRANSFERRED THE IN GAME NAME TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT BELONGING TO THE PERSON WHO PAID for it on EBAY!!
I was NEVER asked to prove anything, The only thing they ever asked me for was my cd key which i supplied.
SO i must admit the game rocks its realy a great game BUT support is prolly in Bangladesh or beruit.
When they email me its like i have to decipher what there saying.
Mooooo
EDIT NOTE This whole thing took from may 4th to may 29th
Mooooo
Funny you post this right now. About 6 months ago some people might've believed you but now that eve is getting more and more successful this is just wrong.
The devs stated that they are behind shedule with shiva because of the huge success lately because they had to optimize the code and upgrade the server cluster so it can cope with the new player influx.
You don't like the game anymore? Go play something else.
WHINER
Eve have more and more players online i play and see how many players are online when i log in (info on log in screen)
And by the way devs promised many things but they working hard on balancing now, but you could not seen this if you not play, i tried many mmorpgs and usually thay go with schedule and dont care what players want, in eve maybe they act little slow but they change what players dont like...
They act slow becouse they dont want to do changes that could destabilize gameplay, they must think what to change and to what degree
And for gms, i dont have problems with them so i cant complain
i complained about the speed of changes in eve but than i checked few others mmorpgs and returned to eve really fast (light speed)
Balancing that they will do:
redesign of all electronic warfare, they will almost do it from begining, ew affected by distance with falloff, not 100% effective, they could fairly lowered enemy combat capabilities but not completly dissable turrets
redesign ships and turret stats, diffrent power grid and cpu outputs, diffrent fitting and stats of turrets
redesign missle weapons and adding much new skills and modules, this will affect what all skills do even existing ones, missles speed and chance of hiting diffrent size targets
and about new content, they adding it whole time but true this is slow (imho too slow) but they add and this is important, untill shiva all tech2 frigates should be in game and shiva will came i q3 or at begining of q4 of this year, but im most interested in all those tech 2 modules that are being introduced from some time, they adding them whole the time...
now i dont want that you came back to eve, i simply dont care about it
i simply write that you dont tell the true, slow adding new SHIPS yes but nothing more and its not sinking
Mooooo
Mooooo
castor OVER 9 months ago??? in what dimenssion you live? maybe you have time machine? castor was delivered to us in december, now is may, its 6 months so if you write something be exact and i dont need to do resarch but from this post i see that you dont know many things and your numbers is hmm wird? taken from roof maybe?
Please understand this person is trying to argue a point in a language he cant quite read or write correctly.
mOo
Mooooo
read this
http://articles.filefront.com/46;1
Record amounts of people online at once..more content added,more planed.
In the last 2 months Ive seen the amount of people online play increase evey week.
And more and more that left coming back to EvE.
So say after me "Yes thats right..its a sinking ship" .......YES Keep taking the tablets
trent if its that great how about a 7 day key?
mail to schapa@systime.com
thanks!
I am dying to try it as waiting for eq2 is really taking its toll.
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Actually, if you bothered to look up the numbers, eve's population peaked 27 days ago, and has slowly(but steadily) declined since then.
As for content added - what exactly?
The elite interceptors that were planned for release 10 months ago?
I'm not the one on drugs.
"Actually, if you bothered to look up the numbers, eve's population peaked 27 days ago, and has slowly(but steadily) declined since then."
You mean they haven't broken their OWN online record in the last 27 days,well that proves it
HOW Scientific of you...
THATS IT TABLET TIME
Nice, you skip all my points and wont say what new content has been added.
Get a clue.
EVE online wasn't really all that great. i'm one for space rpgs, but this one was really in my small list of favorite space games. one thing that really annoyed me is i couldn't just click anywhere to start moving anywhere, except on that very very little radar. that was ridiculus. try to move where you want it to go, you might end up going in the complete opposite direction. the idea of the game isn't too bad, but they can improve on it. but like all games, it eventually dies. people may just bore of it.
it's...scary. very, very, very, scary...the world we live in...that's why i love the virtual world.
Now heres a guy who has no clue whatsoever.
You just gotta love people who cant fathom simple game play mechanics.
mOo
Mooooo
Now heres a guy who has no clue whatsoever.
You just gotta love people who cant fathom simple game play mechanics.
mOo
Quite a lot of people expected eve to be a third person(uh... you know what I mean) ship mmorpg.
Instead of being entirely point and click.
You mentioned one yourself already - interceptors.
I can add:
- Tech level 2 items, manufacturing and research
- Player owned stations
- Much improved missions
- New market funtcions
- Bigger badder pirates
- Numerous skills
In addition to this patches and hardware upgrades have:
- Made Eve stable as a rock on both my computers.
- Hugely increased performance and improved loading times.
- Largely balanced combat.
- Removed numerous exploits.
I could go on, but suspect that I'm talking to deaf ears. In the meantime, I direct you to the new feature page for the Shiva update, to highlight the fact that Shiva will be more focused on gameplay issues rather than fixes (Castor).