EVE on Steam

Neil79 · 22 Jan 2008 at 22:31

Valve and CCP announce that EVE Online is now being offered via the Steam online content delivery service, and the arrival of the science fiction MMORPG on Steam has inspired them to offer a 21-day free trial for the game as well as a $5.00 discount off the first full month's subscription fee for Steam users.

VaderDSL · 22 Jan 2008 at 22:47

Oh no

you ever read the Steam forums? they are 100x worse than even Eve's.

Frapple · 22 Jan 2008 at 22:54

VaderDSL said:
Oh no you ever read the Steam forums? they are 100x worse than even Eve's.

Ummm.....what? What's that got to do with anything?

Good news, should bring in a few hundred people.

dbmzk1 · 22 Jan 2008 at 23:39

Manbread said:
Ummm.....what? What's that got to do with anything?

Good news, should bring in a few hundred people.

EVE doesn't need any more people imo.

WotDa · 22 Jan 2008 at 23:55

Interesting...

JC · 23 Jan 2008 at 01:18

Sounds like bad news to me, eve doesn't need a few more thousand players

[TW]Fox · 23 Jan 2008 at 01:19

Eve needs less people not new people. They cannot handle the players they've already got let alone new ones.

JC · 23 Jan 2008 at 01:24

Banning goonswarm should do the trick /flamebait

uk_viper · 23 Jan 2008 at 08:42

they might aswell take out bob aswell

Anim · 23 Jan 2008 at 09:01

They cant remove bob as im pretty sure their employees are still legally allowed to play the game

Still an influx of players may well lead to an expansion in the size of the galaxy, fresh places to explore etc.

Ross1234 · 23 Jan 2008 at 22:07

whats bob and goonswarm?

WotDa · 23 Jan 2008 at 22:22

Ross1234 said:
whats bob and goonswarm?

http://www.eve-online.com/alliances/a_824518128.asp

http://www.eve-online.com/alliances/a_632866070.asp

Edit:

http://www.eve-online.com/alliances/a_1963486862.asp

Inquisitor · 23 Jan 2008 at 22:48

Anim said:
They cant remove bob as im pretty sure their employees are still legally allowed to play the game

Still an influx of players may well lead to an expansion in the size of the galaxy, fresh places to explore etc.

EVE is already saturated with players/alliances to the point that any newly added space would immediately be claimed by the nearest alliance. The only way to remedy this is to introduce so much new space that it cannot be held by a single alliance or group of alliances.

What we need is the same player-to-space ratio that we had about 4 years ago, which means increasing the amount of space in EVE by a factor of about 4 or 5.

warnea1984 · 23 Jan 2008 at 23:49

Is eve online mouse driven or do you need a joystick?

VaderDSL · 23 Jan 2008 at 23:50

warnea1984 said:
Is eve online mouse driven or do you need a joystick?

It's a point and click

Anim · 24 Jan 2008 at 00:06

What would be nice is roaming npc rats in dreads/carrier etc that bounce around blowing up pos' in some new space.

JBod · 24 Jan 2008 at 00:08

I think this is good in a lot of ways, bad in others. The lag could get bad, but I do actually have confidence in CCP (unlike other MMO companies) to step up to the plate and invest the money where it is needed in hardware/infrastructure.

This confidence could be a little misplaced however as their hardware and operating system choice is a bit shakey :eek:

Windows OS that requires rebooting everyday at 11am...

warnea1984 · 24 Jan 2008 at 00:14

hmm may give this a go, heard th elearning curve is step. Should be taxing and fun then.

[TW]Fox · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:12

What would be nice is if they fix the lag.

TehBluebear · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:13

I enjoyed playing EVE, but it just took too long to do anything... I might give it another go, seeing as Trinity has just been released. Quite a few guys here at uni play it.