I quit because no matter how good you are, and no matter how much you play, you will never ever catch up to the vet players who started before you. You can never be competetive with those vet players with mountains of vessels, credits, etc. Too bad, I really like the game. I wish I could have gotten in on it when it started. A second reason I quit is because it feels like I'm playing a ship, not a character.
- Phos
2 most silly reasons Ive heard. EVE is exactly one of few games where even noobs could be on par with 4 years veterans.
I actually think that may be one part of the game the developers need to explain more. A lot of people that are coming from other games compare EVE's skill system to them, when they really can't...
It's more specialized.
If you want to do PVP combat, you can be fully effective within 2-3 months of starting the game.
The only thing that LOOONG time gamers have on you is money, and a larger variety of skills (they can PVP AND mine, etc). The ISK portion still isn't even a big deal.
Pick up Salvaging, and you can have 50 million isk by the time the 14 day trial is over with. And no, that is not an exaggeration.
This system works out well, because whatever you find entertaining in the game, you can do right from the beginning. You get the full course meal right at the beginning...just takes time to get all the side dishes.
I quit when I became disillusioned after being blamed for cheating and banned for a few days for something I didnt even know how to do let alone did deliberately. I got the impression that no-one at CCP gave a s**t about whether I was innocent or not. Mind you a lot of people on this forum thought I was guilty too. Played for a bit longer when my ban wore off but I just kept thinking how soon before I make another tiny mistake and CCP looks at my file, sees the previous ban, and thinks the worst.
Eve is a dangerous game to be a noob in. You are treated as if you are a previously banned player trying to cheat on a new account. The benefit of the doubt does not exist in Eve. Noobs should give it a miss. The game itself is cool. CCP are not.
Just asking when you played? Noticed your sig where the highest SP you achieved was 900k. No offense, but that takes 1 week to get as a noob. Less you're coming from when people started with a lot less.
I used to play EVE, and enjoyed it, but after Red Moon Rising was released the game performance deteriorated for me, my FPS performance went out the window never to return.
Even the hardware upgrade did nothing to redeem the games performance PRE RMR.
Went back for a month at one point and nothing had changed, still horrible frame rates, and terrible market lag when trying to trade, couple that with the module lag, and dreadful performance in combat where your frame rates would dip below 10 fps in some instances.
I could go on but I wont, this game was perfectly playable for me before Red Moon Rising.
I long to come back but not before they fix these issues.
I was tired of being unable to find a good solid corp , The ones I did join either liked the sound of wardrums or Didnt have much of a close knit feel where people actually help each other.
I started playing the 14 day trial and has every intention of subscribing until I got halfway through the tutorial. I tried to find out where the tutorial wanted me to go next and it appeared to be bugged as no matter what I did I couldn't progress any further (don't ask what part I was on it was too long ago).
I decided to quit the tutorial and go it alone; this was probably my biggest mistake. I found a couple of friendily people in the game but they had no time for me and instead chucked money at me and gave me poor advice. I spent a few days just learning skills so I could spend the money they gave me to get a good ship. First thing I did with my 'uber' ship was to fly off in search of missions and next thing you know I'm in my escape pod cos of some ganker. Ship gone, all my money gone. my will to play gone, quit!
I had similar problems with the tutorial. (So have other people I know who tried the 14-day package.) When I tried figuring stuff out on my own, I was astounded at how kludgy the interface was. Of course, I got pulverized on about my third mission. (BTW, I wasn't getting responses to my questions on the "rookie" chat channel either.)
From what I can see from these forums, the people who play EVE long-term get perhaps their biggest thrills out of putting down rookies and anyone that criticizes the game. This game is a very small, insular community and it's likely to stay that way. 14-day trials are not going to bring a lot of new people in with a culture like this.
A lot of the old-timers sneer at those who criticize the difficulty of EVE. If I want to play a complex, incomprehensible, unforgiving game With rampant cheating and perpetual bullying, I can just head off to work. (I happen to specialize in certain types of what be termed "piracy.") And they pay ME, not the other way around.
I started playing the 14 day trial and has every intention of subscribing until I got halfway through the tutorial. I tried to find out where the tutorial wanted me to go next and it appeared to be bugged as no matter what I did I couldn't progress any further (don't ask what part I was on it was too long ago).
I decided to quit the tutorial and go it alone; this was probably my biggest mistake. I found a couple of friendily people in the game but they had no time for me and instead chucked money at me and gave me poor advice. I spent a few days just learning skills so I could spend the money they gave me to get a good ship. First thing I did with my 'uber' ship was to fly off in search of missions and next thing you know I'm in my escape pod cos of some ganker. Ship gone, all my money gone. my will to play gone, quit!
I had similar problems with the tutorial. (So have other people I know who tried the 14-day package.)) When I tried figuring stuff out on my own, I was astounded at how kludgy the interface was. Of course, I got pulverized on about my third mission. (BTW, I wasn't getting responses to my questions on the "rookie" chat channel either.)
From what I can see from these forums, the people who play EVE long-term get perhaps their biggest thrills out of putting down rookies and anyone that criticizes the game. This game is a very small, insular community and it's likely to stay that way. 14-day trials are not going to bring a lot of new people in with a culture like this.
A lot of the old-timers sneer at those who criticize the difficulty of EVE. If I want to play a complex, imcomprehensible, unforgiving game With rampant cheating and perpetual bullying, I can just head off to work. (I happen to specialize in certain types of what be termed "piracy.") And they pay ME, not the other way around.
While I'm the first to admit that the interace is complex, I wouldn't call it kludgy really... it's qiute logical once you've gotten used to it, but it's just very (very) different from every other MMO that you've played. My first trial went the same way - I quit about 45 minutes into it in fact... but months and months later I gave it another shot and played much longer.
Incidentally, I'm not currently a subscriber, but may re-sub... I'm still on the fence.
Also, I find that "rampant cheating" and "perpetual bullying" are gross generalizations and quite frankly just downright false. I'm no EVE historian, but I think there have only been a few examples (in 4 years) of proven "cheating" (by devs, and even that becomes a he-said she-said battle... but don't let the actions of a few ruin the overall impression of the game environment). Furthermore, I found the community to be quite helpful in many cases, but also quite stand-offish in others. Keep in mind it is a PvP game, so there's going to be some level of "bullying"... but if you ask an honest question, you'll typically get a reasonable answer from reasonable people... and for those who bully you and act like jerks, just be sure to pod-kill them if you ever get the opportunity! Aha sweet revenge!...
I started playing the 14 day trial and has every intention of subscribing until I got halfway through the tutorial. I tried to find out where the tutorial wanted me to go next and it appeared to be bugged as no matter what I did I couldn't progress any further (don't ask what part I was on it was too long ago).
I decided to quit the tutorial and go it alone; this was probably my biggest mistake. I found a couple of friendily people in the game but they had no time for me and instead chucked money at me and gave me poor advice. I spent a few days just learning skills so I could spend the money they gave me to get a good ship. First thing I did with my 'uber' ship was to fly off in search of missions and next thing you know I'm in my escape pod cos of some ganker. Ship gone, all my money gone. my will to play gone, quit!
I had similar problems with the tutorial. (So have other people I know who tried the 14-day package.)) When I tried figuring stuff out on my own, I was astounded at how kludgy the interface was. Of course, I got pulverized on about my third mission. (BTW, I wasn't getting responses to my questions on the "rookie" chat channel either.)
From what I can see from these forums, the people who play EVE long-term get perhaps their biggest thrills out of putting down rookies and anyone that criticizes the game. This game is a very small, insular community and it's likely to stay that way. 14-day trials are not going to bring a lot of new people in with a culture like this.
A lot of the old-timers sneer at those who criticize the difficulty of EVE. If I want to play a complex, imcomprehensible, unforgiving game With rampant cheating and perpetual bullying, I can just head off to work. (I happen to specialize in certain types of what be termed "piracy.") And they pay ME, not the other way around.
While I'm the first to admit that the interace is complex, I wouldn't call it kludgy really... it's qiute logical once you've gotten used to it, but it's just very (very) different from every other MMO that you've played. My first trial went the same way - I quit about 45 minutes into it in fact... but months and months later I gave it another shot and played much longer.
Incidentally, I'm not currently a subscriber, but may re-sub... I'm still on the fence.
Also, I find that "rampant cheating" and "perpetual bullying" are gross generalizations and quite frankly just downright false. I'm no EVE historian, but I think there have only been a few examples (in 4 years) of proven "cheating" (by devs, and even that becomes a he-said she-said battle... but don't let the actions of a few ruin the overall impression of the game environment). Furthermore, I found the community to be quite helpful in many cases, but also quite stand-offish in others. Keep in mind it is a PvP game, so there's going to be some level of "bullying"... but if you ask an honest question, you'll typically get a reasonable answer from reasonable people... and for those who bully you and act like jerks, just be sure to pod-kill them if you ever get the opportunity! Aha sweet revenge!...
"Rampant cheating"? Read the posts about the cheating by the devs going back to beta, not just the recent stuff. "Perpetual bullying"? That's what a good part of this game is: Uber-players ganking people who have no chance even to shoot back. It may be fun for you, but I don't need to play a game to do it or have it done to me, so why should I pay for it and sit around in front of a computer for months/years? (EXCEPTION: maybe if I can get on the devs' "friends list" so I can cheat too, that might make it interesting . . . )
Well, in answer to the OP, I simply quit due to being unable to keep up the time investment involved.
It's a great, freeform game, I really liked it but hey, when work calls, you have to go. My wife quit it too but mainly because she's a Lord of The Rings fan and wanted to play that instead.
Good luck to everyone still playing and have fun out there
I quit eve online after playing for two years. The main reasons why I quit are:
1) I was griefed out of the game by constantly being hunted and pod killed. The reason for being hunted was because I stole 2billion isk from my corp due to me being bored as hell. If you do one dishonest thing in the game you get blacklisted by the community and therefore won't be able to join anymore corps.All fun you can possibly have in the game solely depends on how good a corp one joins.
2) Lag is unbearable and it has not been fixed since the game came out. Large fleet battles are a impossible with all the lag demons.
3) Pvp is a joke. All you do is press a button on your key board and watch weapon efffects of your ship activate on the target .
Stay away from eve. You will get bored if you can't find a good corp and or have patience to play.
The fun stopped and it began to feel like a second job. I should blame the latter on my corp though. Toward the end I just used it as a pretty chatroom.
Got tired of the devs taking forever to fix things and when they finally do actually patch the game it breaks 10 more things and doesn't address the major issues at all. Not for me. I tend to expect broken things to eventually get fixed and in that regard this game does not deliver. Ever.
I quit because i didnt enjoy the combat or the mining. Really felt like i wasn't goiing anywhere. I mine, why? to make money... why? to buy a better mining ship, why? to mine faster, why? to make money, why? why make cash just to make cash. And i found the fighting dull, tell it to orbit and shoot and sit back.
I didn't like the game after exodus and i loved the game when the population was like 5000 on the server at primetime, it felt more like space and was really nice. However not it's too busy and chats spammed all the time and i have a hard time finding a place to myself.
I'd play the game again if everyone suddenly quit and only had like 5k people on prime time however 30k is just tooo much.
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2 most silly reasons Ive heard. EVE is exactly one of few games where even noobs could be on par with 4 years veterans.
It's more specialized.
If you want to do PVP combat, you can be fully effective within 2-3 months of starting the game.
The only thing that LOOONG time gamers have on you is money, and a larger variety of skills (they can PVP AND mine, etc). The ISK portion still isn't even a big deal.
Pick up Salvaging, and you can have 50 million isk by the time the 14 day trial is over with. And no, that is not an exaggeration.
This system works out well, because whatever you find entertaining in the game, you can do right from the beginning. You get the full course meal right at the beginning...just takes time to get all the side dishes.
Sorry to see you guys go.
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Current game: Pillars of Eternity
Played: UO, AC, Eve, Fallen Earth, Aion, GW, GW2
Tried: WOW, Rift, SWTOR, ESO
Future: Camelot Unchained? Crowfall? Bless?
I used to play EVE, and enjoyed it, but after Red Moon Rising was released the game performance deteriorated for me, my FPS performance went out the window never to return.
Even the hardware upgrade did nothing to redeem the games performance PRE RMR.
Went back for a month at one point and nothing had changed, still horrible frame rates, and terrible market lag when trying to trade, couple that with the module lag, and dreadful performance in combat where your frame rates would dip below 10 fps in some instances.
I could go on but I wont, this game was perfectly playable for me before Red Moon Rising.
I long to come back but not before they fix these issues.
http://www.TheGamersAssociation.com
From what I can see from these forums, the people who play EVE long-term get perhaps their biggest thrills out of putting down rookies and anyone that criticizes the game. This game is a very small, insular community and it's likely to stay that way. 14-day trials are not going to bring a lot of new people in with a culture like this.
A lot of the old-timers sneer at those who criticize the difficulty of EVE. If I want to play a complex, incomprehensible, unforgiving game With rampant cheating and perpetual bullying, I can just head off to work. (I happen to specialize in certain types of what be termed "piracy.") And they pay ME, not the other way around.
From what I can see from these forums, the people who play EVE long-term get perhaps their biggest thrills out of putting down rookies and anyone that criticizes the game. This game is a very small, insular community and it's likely to stay that way. 14-day trials are not going to bring a lot of new people in with a culture like this.
A lot of the old-timers sneer at those who criticize the difficulty of EVE. If I want to play a complex, imcomprehensible, unforgiving game With rampant cheating and perpetual bullying, I can just head off to work. (I happen to specialize in certain types of what be termed "piracy.") And they pay ME, not the other way around.
While I'm the first to admit that the interace is complex, I wouldn't call it kludgy really... it's qiute logical once you've gotten used to it, but it's just very (very) different from every other MMO that you've played. My first trial went the same way - I quit about 45 minutes into it in fact... but months and months later I gave it another shot and played much longer.
Incidentally, I'm not currently a subscriber, but may re-sub... I'm still on the fence.
Also, I find that "rampant cheating" and "perpetual bullying" are gross generalizations and quite frankly just downright false. I'm no EVE historian, but I think there have only been a few examples (in 4 years) of proven "cheating" (by devs, and even that becomes a he-said she-said battle... but don't let the actions of a few ruin the overall impression of the game environment). Furthermore, I found the community to be quite helpful in many cases, but also quite stand-offish in others. Keep in mind it is a PvP game, so there's going to be some level of "bullying"... but if you ask an honest question, you'll typically get a reasonable answer from reasonable people... and for those who bully you and act like jerks, just be sure to pod-kill them if you ever get the opportunity! Aha sweet revenge!...
From what I can see from these forums, the people who play EVE long-term get perhaps their biggest thrills out of putting down rookies and anyone that criticizes the game. This game is a very small, insular community and it's likely to stay that way. 14-day trials are not going to bring a lot of new people in with a culture like this.
A lot of the old-timers sneer at those who criticize the difficulty of EVE. If I want to play a complex, imcomprehensible, unforgiving game With rampant cheating and perpetual bullying, I can just head off to work. (I happen to specialize in certain types of what be termed "piracy.") And they pay ME, not the other way around.
While I'm the first to admit that the interace is complex, I wouldn't call it kludgy really... it's qiute logical once you've gotten used to it, but it's just very (very) different from every other MMO that you've played. My first trial went the same way - I quit about 45 minutes into it in fact... but months and months later I gave it another shot and played much longer.
Incidentally, I'm not currently a subscriber, but may re-sub... I'm still on the fence.
Also, I find that "rampant cheating" and "perpetual bullying" are gross generalizations and quite frankly just downright false. I'm no EVE historian, but I think there have only been a few examples (in 4 years) of proven "cheating" (by devs, and even that becomes a he-said she-said battle... but don't let the actions of a few ruin the overall impression of the game environment). Furthermore, I found the community to be quite helpful in many cases, but also quite stand-offish in others. Keep in mind it is a PvP game, so there's going to be some level of "bullying"... but if you ask an honest question, you'll typically get a reasonable answer from reasonable people... and for those who bully you and act like jerks, just be sure to pod-kill them if you ever get the opportunity! Aha sweet revenge!...
"Rampant cheating"? Read the posts about the cheating by the devs going back to beta, not just the recent stuff. "Perpetual bullying"? That's what a good part of this game is: Uber-players ganking people who have no chance even to shoot back. It may be fun for you, but I don't need to play a game to do it or have it done to me, so why should I pay for it and sit around in front of a computer for months/years? (EXCEPTION: maybe if I can get on the devs' "friends list" so I can cheat too, that might make it interesting . . . )It's a great, freeform game, I really liked it but hey, when work calls, you have to go. My wife quit it too but mainly because she's a Lord of The Rings fan and wanted to play that instead.
Good luck to everyone still playing and have fun out there
I quit eve online after playing for two years. The main reasons why I quit are:
1) I was griefed out of the game by constantly being hunted and pod killed. The reason for being hunted was because I stole 2billion isk from my corp due to me being bored as hell. If you do one dishonest thing in the game you get blacklisted by the community and therefore won't be able to join anymore corps.All fun you can possibly have in the game solely depends on how good a corp one joins.
2) Lag is unbearable and it has not been fixed since the game came out. Large fleet battles are a impossible with all the lag demons.
3) Pvp is a joke. All you do is press a button on your key board and watch weapon efffects of your ship activate on the target .
Stay away from eve. You will get bored if you can't find a good corp and or have patience to play.
~dai
Here are some links that explain succinctly why I quit:
http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=424
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=473335&page=1
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=479988&page=30#881
I didn't like the game after exodus and i loved the game when the population was like 5000 on the server at primetime, it felt more like space and was really nice. However not it's too busy and chats spammed all the time and i have a hard time finding a place to myself.
I'd play the game again if everyone suddenly quit and only had like 5k people on prime time however 30k is just tooo much.