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EVE Online: Summer Reactivation Campaign Begins
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Thanks to mklinic for letting us know that the official EVE Facebook page has an announcement telling former players that the summer reactivation campaign has begun.
Check your email; EVE Summer Reactivation campaign ends Aug2nd. Get your 5 free days for accounts older than June 1st 2010. It’s 5 free days. Check to see if any old accounts are eligible at: http://secure.eveonline.com/reactivate707.aspx?id=reactivate5daysfree. Worst thing that happens? None of your old accounts are eligible. Best thing? 5 Free Days!
Check your eligibility at the link above and/or head to the EVE Facebook page for other announcements.
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Have loads of respect for CCP and what they do with EVE but I always feel SOOO lost when I jump in.
Five free days of EVE or fourteen free days of Fallen Earth...
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
EVE has a HUGE learning curve but it's an incredible game when you get a feel for what you're doing.
I unsubscribed a month ago, I guess I'm not eligible.
I would love to do this, but I have no clue what my character's name was. Oh well, kudos to CCP and good luck to anyone that gets the deal.
I have an account expired at 19 june and i got 5 free days ,try your luck
hmm been very tempted to come back and take a look but don't think i'm eligible anyone know the rules as my account was defo created before 2010
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They need to save this come back campaign for when the game has a major overhaul, like Incarna. That's when I will come back and brave the library of information I have to learn in order to play the game.
Instead of offering just free 5 days nonsense, they could do a lot better by actually listening to the feedback of the players, tightening & honing the experience, fixing broken chunks of the game. But as we now know from their blantantly honest CSM Minutes and Devblogs, they don't care at all about listening to players at all. No one's gonna actually resub for PI!??
FIX THE GAME - Have an entire expansion dedicated to fixing this game, and you will get LOADS of subs back. It's pretty basic.
Cinori Aluben - CSM6 2011
Fix The Little Things First!
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I did my 5 days already and thought to myself the entire time that I wish I liked the gameplay because everything other than the gameplay is exactly how I want it. I just find the ship handling boring, but everything else in an action and more uptempo game would be basically perfect.
It takes no effort for them to offer five days, so they probably could do both. 5 days of free reactivations for them is literally a slight tweak in the way accounts work, that's it.
^^ This
Hell even fix some of the game . . .
Gaming since Avalon Hill was making board games.
Played SWG, EVE, Fallen Earth, LOTRO, Rift, Vanguard, WoW, SWTOR, TSW, Tera
Tried Aoc, Aion, EQII, RoM, Vindictus, Darkfail, DDO, GW, PotBS
Right on the money. I completely agree with this. Love everything about Eve except the most important aspect, the actual gameplay, rofl!
I did it. Gave up on 0.0 for a while and decided to do some exploring. It's a lot of fun plus it can be pretty lucrative too! That's the great thing about EVE, there's always something to do.
Can I has stuff>?
I say go for it; fact renew your sub for 60days, after that point you don't need to use cold-hard-cash...just isk to keep going.
To those complaining about ship control. This isn't a fighter-jet simulation...the ships respond as they should. Not really sure why everyone's gotta have WoW-controls to play a game.
Also for those not "in the know" EVE is player-driven, don't expect NPCs to make the world for you....the players do. Welcome to a REAL MMO; different isn't it?
PS: Those complaining about the game being broken.. only thing I can think of that's broken is the damn Bounty System...hide in 0.5 or higher and I can't touch you because CONCORD will kill me. So....what exactly is it that's broken?
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall.
Just checked my emails and i have got the FE 14 days, thanks for the heads up, going to check out what the game is like now, the Blood Sports looks interesting :-)
Do you still have the email address which you used to register? Generally the GMs are pretty helpful when it comes to reactivating accounts, and if you can find the activation email, you'll know your account name (not the same as your character name) - and that's enough.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
The server - Any fight with more than 20 people in it is a lottery. Got close to 100 and you start seeing some very weird stuff indeed. This is the biggest cause of discontent, and they've achieved exactly zero progress in over 8 months since it became a problem. In fact it seems to be getting worse.
The 0.0 sov system. It can't have been easy to make something worse than POS warfare, but CCP have managed it.
The other thing that's broken is a large number of CCP's promises
Planetary Interaction is a clickfest
The corp management interface is like something Dilbert's Pointy-Haired Boss would work up.
Rockets
Assault Frigates
COSMOS
The fifth T3 subsystems
Treaties
And many, many, many more.
If you do nothing but run missions in hi-sec then EVE runs pretty well. If you try and play it as an MMO, then you start running in to problems. Of course, all MMOs have problems, but right now, CCP have their priorities totally bass-ackwards. They've lost touch with what their customers want, and they're trying to impose FoTM Sims/Farmville gameplay onto a customer base which is totally unreceptive to it. Meanwhile they've been neglecting long running issues, and they've now told the players that they wont even start looking at those issues for another 18 months. Patience was already wearing thin when they said this to the CSM, and when their Dev confirmed it in his devblog, things came to a head.
I have cancelled my subscriptions. I may come back if and when CCP start producing fixes and features their customers actually want, rather than what "the metrics" show we should want.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Could you give more info on the broken "The fifth T3 subsystems" please.
As i have just started flying T3 ships and plan to explore with them in 0.0 so if there is a glaring problem with them then it would help to know what it is . Thanks
The glaring problem is that they dont exist, despite repeated promises that they would be introduced.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Did they fix lag in fleet battles? Um haven't seem that post yet- Fleet Battles are fun again. So i'll stay unsubscribed again till then. Save my 5 days for my 3 accounts CCP. When you fix fleet lag ill take em, but not till then.
I have a lot of respect for the game , but I also trust some of these comments here. Indeed the problems that were there when I played are still problems now. For example, lag, lag, lag in large gang vs. gang. I never participated in fleet warfare but I assume its there too. Thats not acceptable.
Broken since December, if anything worse now than then.
The really cruel thing is that they worked fine last year.
Give me liberty or give me lasers