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  • chefdoylechefdoyle Member Posts: 3

    WoW is getting tedious....too many people (4million plus) playing. Endgame is pointless. Nonetheless it's still fun with a group of real life friends ganging up on instances and such.

    Eve is really a cool game....with too few people playing. Loved the game but the trial period is nothing like what the majority of people seem to do that play the game, you don't really get into too much during that time.....real content/fun comes after a couple months it seems.

    WoW (free 7day) trial pushes you right into the action....albeit at a third grade level. Fun and linear. Kind of like your first time on a bike with training wheels and on a closed street.

    Eve 2 week trial is like taking a driver's ed course and then being placed behind the controls of a commercial airliner and being told to plot your own course and fly to wherever you want.

    I'm still very much on the fence about both games.....just for me WoW is getting lame and I need a new game....Eve was very appealing but I'm still lost.....

    Decisions, Decisions........

  • HarafnirHarafnir Member UncommonPosts: 1,350

    EVE vs WoW

    And next: Apples vs lamp posts.

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  • little_fazlittle_faz Member UncommonPosts: 80
    I'm currently trying to decide between both games, I only want to play one so I can dedicate time to it but am not sure which one to choose.  It may come to a coin flip but who knows.
  • magik_fxmagik_fx Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 278


    Originally posted by Harafnir
    EVE vs WoW
    And next: Apples vs lamp posts.

    Lamp post.

  • HikeHike Member UncommonPosts: 33

    But am I totaly wrong in saying that you don't have to put down alot of time in EVE (per session), whilest in WoW you might have to spend a couple of hours online per session to actully acomplish something?

    As I said, I haven't played EVE except during the beta and the free trail, so I don't know. I just got the feel that's how it was.

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  • Ranma13Ranma13 Member Posts: 747

    EVE is the only MMORPG I'll play consistently nowadays. I've tried the whole slew and they're all pretty much based on the same idea with variations. EVE is the only game that throws all of that out of the door and comes up with a true open-ended gameplay system. Nowadays, I can't even play a game that has a level cap unless it actually offers some sort of progress when you hit it besides "Let's raid this instance for the nth time" and "Oh look, I killed another person in PvP, honor +1 for me".

  • AshkentAshkent Member Posts: 772



    Originally posted by Minsc

    Yes cause grinding mobs for hours on end is SOOOOO fun ::::12::



    lmao!! and flying through space watching the same thing over and over and over again, taking 20 minutes to get to your destination is fun?
  • AshkentAshkent Member Posts: 772



    Originally posted by Minsc

    See the thing with EVE is that the game is entirely what you make it. The devs don't hold your hand from one point to the next and lead you through the game, after the tutorial you're pretty much on your own in an open world where the rest of the population who are going to be either friends or foes.
    It's sometime harsh but any accomplishments you make are actually meaningfull because you got there on your own, and you do everything the way you want to.
    As the Devs at CCP have stated many times, there are 2 types of MMO's, one is a sandbox filled with toys where the players have the freedom to do anything they want and the other is a theme park, where the players are led from one ride to the next. Eve is mostly sandbox, with a few rides thrown in here and there.



    wtf? why does everyone say that EVE doesn't hold your hand like other games do? what game holds your hand? you can do what you want to do in other games too. i don't know one game where you had to do everything in sequence and the game told you exactly what to do the whole time.
  • hadzhadz Member Posts: 712

    EVE vs WoW

    or: Barren Gas Giant vs Burgeoning M Class Planet

  • AmbassadorDvinnAmbassadorDvinn Member UncommonPosts: 339

    Hello folks.

    I created this thread and would like to respond to the people that responded to me.

    I've been playing EVE for awhile now and I must say, it's as repetitive as having sex with the same girl for three years straight.  So the question is, do you stay with the girl, or do you leave her in search of new poon-tang?  This is what EVE is; a good-looking chick with the desires you crave but the personality of a paper bag (if that makes sense?).

    Paper bag = open space, nothingness, etc

    Good-looking chick = nice features

    Now onto World of Warcraft.  It's entertaining, smooth, slick, suave, super and at times seductive.  All of that lasts until you realize you're just one clone of the millions and millions of identical characters running around Azeroth looking for the next over-grown spider to kill.  Take into the fact that the game boasts 75% children that act like wild kittens trying to suck on the nipple first.  Add those qualities up and you have what I call:  Money-making machine.

    Blizzard is doing a damn fine job at manipulating kids into stealing their mother's credit cards month after month, which I admire.  Although, I have to admit that I -do- pay for World of Warcraft and actually have to renew my subscription tomorrow for my fourth month into the game.  The game is fun, as long as I'm on a PvP/RP server with a RP guild.  I must also concur with the other posters amongst this thread that the two games are complete opposites.  I still think my analogy of WoW = Children and EVE = Adults is dead on, however. 

    P.S.  For all you bums that took my OP way too serious, chill out.  Since I wrote WoW = Children that all of a sudden means WoW = Bad?  I think some people are taking things out of context.  Commence flaming.

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  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077


    Originally posted by Vyre
    Hello folks.
    I created this thread and would like to respond to the people that responded to me.
    I've been playing EVE for awhile now and I must say, it's as repetitive as having sex with the same girl for three years straight. So the question is, do you stay with the girl, or do you leave her in search of new poon-tang? This is what EVE is; a good-looking chick with the desires you crave but the personality of a paper bag (if that makes sense?).
    Paper bag = open space, nothingness, etc
    Good-looking chick = nice features
    Now onto World of Warcraft. It's entertaining, smooth, slick, suave, super and at times seductive. All of that lasts until you realize you're just one clone of the millions and millions of identical characters running around Azeroth looking for the next over-grown spider to kill. Take into the fact that the game boasts 75% children that act like wild kittens trying to suck on the nipple first. Add those qualities up and you have what I call: Money-making machine.
    Blizzard is doing a damn fine job at manipulating kids into stealing their mother's credit cards month after month, which I admire. Although, I have to admit that I -do- pay for World of Warcraft and actually have to renew my subscription tomorrow for my fourth month into the game. The game is fun, as long as I'm on a PvP/RP server with a RP guild. I must also concur with the other posters amongst this thread that the two games are complete opposites. I still think my analogy of WoW = Children and EVE = Adults is dead on, however.
    P.S. For all you bums that took my OP way too serious, chill out. Since I wrote WoW = Children that all of a sudden means WoW = Bad? I think some people are taking things out of context. Commence flaming.


    No you're missing the point. You insulted any ADULT who plays WOW and enjoys it. Personally I found WoW pretty boring and repetitive. But I found EVE just as boring because of all the time gating it does. Your point is completely and purely invalid. There are MORE adults playing WOW than there are playing EVE. Even if only 25% of the population of WoW were adults (which, by the way, is incorrect considering the AVERAGE age of MMORPG players is 35) it would have over 10x the number of adults playing it.

    If you don't believe that stat (average age of MMORPG players) go do some research on the internet. The general concensus is that the average age of GAMERS is in the low to mid 20's while the average age of MMORPG players is in the low to mid 30's. There's a good article on it in Wikipedia. I think the NYT recently did an article on it as well.

    Bottom line: Your entire arguement is flawed. EVE is a game that requires a GREAT deal of patience. If you'd said:

    EVE players = Patient
    WoW players = Seeking instant Gratification

    I could have agreed with you.

    Instead you chose to insult 4.5 million players...

    Not a big problem for me, I'm not one of those 4.5 million people. But be prepared to catch a few flames over it and grow up and realize that your little view of the world isn't the only one. Matter of fact it isn't even the right one for anyone... except yourself.

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  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077


    Originally posted by Ashkent
    Originally posted by Minsc
    Yes cause grinding mobs for hours on end is SOOOOO fun lmao!! and flying through space watching the same thing over and over and over again, taking 20 minutes to get to your destination is fun?

    Fun is in the eye of the beholder... much like beauty...

    I don't like either EVE or WoW but I can see why some like eve.... and I can see why some like WoW...

    Bottom line: Both games are good games.... they cater to different styles of play is all.

    Insulting an entire player base, however, is one of the most immature things I've seen in a while :)

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  • WillywoooWillywooo Member Posts: 4

    You cant compare the two. Play what you enjoy and stop comparing or thinking one game is better than the other, its all about what YOU enjoy playing.

    WoW = A great fantasy MMORPG
    EVE = A great sci-fi MMORPG
    Vyre = Cock

    end of.

  • pistolierpistolier Member Posts: 91

    i haven't logged into mmorpg for about a month and you guys and with low probability gals, are still on the same topic, there is no basis for arguement, eve-online is the highest rated game on the poles on this site, so sit back relaxe and let the wow players grumble.

    yes my grammar sucks.image and yes i do play eve.

  • binjuicebinjuice Member Posts: 363


    Originally posted by pistolier
    i haven't logged into mmorpg for about a month and you guys and with low probability gals, are still on the same topic, there is no basis for arguement, eve-online is the highest rated game on the poles on this site, so sit back relaxe and let the wow players grumble.


    Gotta love that ^^

    I must admit, I can be immature at times, since I am younger then the stated (quite forcefully) 'average' gamer and mmorger, but that does not always everything. Yes OP insulted the 4.5 million or so WoW players, but if they wanted to reply to such a comical thread what happened to their 'maturity' if mister numbers above says it. Adults are not always the most mature of people, yes you'll get that lttle **** stick once in a while in Eve, and slightly more often (or all the time when i did my 7 day trial) because of it's natural size difference. But half the time the mature guys the 20 something and the **** stick is the 30+ adult who had a bad day at work and decided to take it out on the players on his WoW server or Eve server then their family(if they have one)

    I must admit, Eve does need the patience and Wow has its 'instint gratitude' but Wow is still one short game. Eve, as I have heard has never had a player max everything, or even come close. That alone for a game nearly 2 1/2x Wow's age should say something.

    Nothing against either, even if you think there is Mister Numbers. But I must say I myself prefer the patience incoporated by Eve for personal venture in reality, then the instint action created by Wow, and (quite realisticly) FPS's

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  • AmbassadorDvinnAmbassadorDvinn Member UncommonPosts: 339



    Originally posted by Elnator




    No you're missing the point. You insulted any ADULT who plays WOW and enjoys it. Personally I found WoW pretty boring and repetitive. But I found EVE just as boring because of all the time gating it does. Your point is completely and purely invalid. There are MORE adults playing WOW than there are playing EVE. Even if only 25% of the population of WoW were adults (which, by the way, is incorrect considering the AVERAGE age of MMORPG players is 35) it would have over 10x the number of adults playing it.
    If you don't believe that stat (average age of MMORPG players) go do some research on the internet. The general concensus is that the average age of GAMERS is in the low to mid 20's while the average age of MMORPG players is in the low to mid 30's. There's a good article on it in Wikipedia. I think the NYT recently did an article on it as well.
    Bottom line: Your entire arguement is flawed. EVE is a game that requires a GREAT deal of patience. If you'd said:
    EVE players = Patient
    WoW players = Seeking instant Gratification
    I could have agreed with you.
    Instead you chose to insult 4.5 million players...
    Not a big problem for me, I'm not one of those 4.5 million people. But be prepared to catch a few flames over it and grow up and realize that your little view of the world isn't the only one. Matter of fact it isn't even the right one for anyone... except yourself.



    Hmmm.  You're kidding, right?  You say I pissed off 4.5 million players?  For christ sake there is only 4.5 million players playing the game on planet Earth.  I said about 75% of WoW's community are children, in my opinion.  75% of 4.5 million is 3 million image.  I'm an adult and in no way shape or form am I insulted to play with "teh l33t d00ds tht roxownz, kkthxbaibai". I just prefer the RP environment because you can actually find people that know the difference between "your" and "you're".  This is getting irrelevant.

    Anyway, you may be right and I may be wrong but I have been playing each game for a good amount of time and WoW seems like it's overrun with children.  No duh there are more adults playing WoW than EVE.  WoW out-populates EVE 100-1.  But if we were to take a handful of 10,000 players I guarantee you would find that EVE boasts a much more mature audience.  It's a guess, but accurate if you ask me.  Also, don't give me this census bullcrap Mr. Numbers.  Census' are wrong all the time.

    I have nothing against either game.  I played both and have my point of views on each.  I'm currently playing World of Warcraft far more than EVE.  The patience for the time gates (as you stated) is getting damn near hellish.  I also agree with your statement about EVE = Patience.  However, WoW is definately not instant gratification.  Maybe if you're a hardcore gamer it is but I don't think a game that takes 300+ hours to beat (level 60) is nowhere near being instant.  If you think that's instant then you must really hate single-player games that only take 10-40 hours to beat.  Bottomline: You're entire reply is flawed. image

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  • d0gz1llad0gz1lla Member UncommonPosts: 77

    Eve - i aint saying its for adults, but as i play i can see that older ppl play not 13 years old g33ks,... And its very complex, other games are faster to know what and who and where,..... And i choose Eve over WoW, its has very nice community, and ppl are older so there isnt any 123456 talk,.... and like Chekthis said you can do much while traveling, it isnt just kill mob, kill mob, kill mob,,....until next lvl, and then you buy something and kill mob, kill mob,......

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  • KapazoKapazo Member UncommonPosts: 107



    Originally posted by cornoffcob

    Why can't EVE and WoW players get along ::::02::
    *burst into song*
    WE ARE FAMILY ALL MY BROTHER SISTERS AND ME!!
    well i play EVE on and off lol i have had 4 free trials
    and WoW is a fun game it all depends on what your taste on fun is ::::33:: who knew



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  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077


    Originally posted by Kapazo
    Originally posted by cornoffcob
    Why can't EVE and WoW players get along
    *burst into song*
    WE ARE FAMILY ALL MY BROTHER SISTERS AND ME!!
    well i play EVE on and off lol i have had 4 free trialsand WoW is a fun game it all depends on what your taste on fun is who knew
    We few, we happy few, we band of Gamers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother.

    Thread necro!

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  • I've only read the opinion of some people here, but here's what i think, i played DAOC, COH, EVE, WOW, and planning on playing RFO, i also play DND with my friends.

    from all of these games i've played, i always tend to want to play them again when i quit for sometime, but the only one i've never actually quit was EVE, i played wow for nearly a year, then quit, then played again, to this moment i stopped playing.

    as for COH i don't think i'll be playing that one again for some reasons hehe, as for daoc, i'm realy itching to play it again after quitting like 3 times, but i don't know.

    for any reason, there's something that you might like in the game, something that lets you want to play it, regardless of what others say, wether it's for children or adults who cares.

    take a look at real life for instant, look at women, their breasts were made for children, and yet adults play with them, but some adults don't, does that make women breasts bad or something ? :D

  • ValkorisValkoris Member Posts: 25

    The OP is right, though.

    EVE is not a kids game. WOW (and may I add Guild Wars) are. Case in point - my 12 year old brother loves WOW and GW but it bored to death by EVE.

    That is not a negative or a positive. Saying EVE isn't fun because you aren't a fairy on a magical dragon slaying a constant horde of simplistic enemies is just as stupid as saying WOW is childish because of previously stated reason.

  • SnaKeySnaKey Member Posts: 3,386

    I'm sorry. I can't really say anything about EVE other than it's boring only for the fact that it takes soooooo long to move. I have alot of friends who play (the entire Imperial Dreams) and I got a trial account..... I didn't come back due to the fact that I was on a quest that took 32 Jumps and I had to use a Behemoth(sp?) to complete it. And the combat sucks. I like SWG: Jump to Lightspeed combat ALOT. It takes alot of skill and quite a bit of brain power to beat someone. (even though the rest of SWG is crap, expecially after the new updates) They built their combat engine too close to the games that it was built after, Trade Wars and Space Merchants. (I play www.tdzk.net btw, wich is where Imperial Dreams is from)

    WoW is kinda boring too. It is a bit TOO simplistic for me. But It's still just as fun as EVE for some weird reason.

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  • binjuicebinjuice Member Posts: 363


    Originally posted by Kapazo
    Originally posted by cornoffcob
    Why can't EVE and WoW players get along
    *burst into song*
    WE ARE FAMILY ALL MY BROTHER SISTERS AND ME!!
    well i play EVE on and off lol i have had 4 free trialsand WoW is a fun game it all depends on what your taste on fun is who knew
    We few, we happy few, we band of Gamers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother.

    I must eat your soul for reviving this long lost thread. But moving on from this CAN WE LOCK THIS THREAD! Please Admins/Moderators, please for the love of Eve players that read these forums, we do not wish to be ashamed by the incompatence of one subsriber producing sucha bad thread then it repeatedly being necro'd/revived every 3 weeks. Please Lock the dreadful thing... PLEASE!

    And I shall not beg for anything else oin these forums.. hopefully.

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  • $cStephens$cStephens Member Posts: 2

    My reply...

    Eve = Work

    Work = bad

    Eve = bad

    WOW = Fun

    Fun = Good

    Good = WoW

    Any questions????


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  • E-V-E_CorpE-V-E_Corp Member Posts: 4

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    I gotta say I run a Portal for a exclusive group of people who play mmorpgs

    they play   WoW & EVE and Dark ages of camelot and EverQuest II and jumpgate :)

     

    I gotta say WoW isnt my cup of tea   " some game mechanics are stupid"

    in EVE I got challenge every minutes "I gotta use my brain"

     

    I dont need too exp "grind"     O thats right no I dont "ore grind either" hehe

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