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If only Turbine wasn't so awful.


And to answer your question, I don't think Turbine would never hire economists, at least not to oversee the in-game economy. The gameplay in EVE is way too different to compare it to anything Turbine has made. Instead Turbine will hire marketeers and Zynga people to make their micro transaction stuff work for them, not the players.

How much has EVE actually changed since its release.  From what I know of the game, there are not quests ect, its just a sandbox game.  Everynow and then you need to add new toys to the sand box (bigger ships, guns ect) but not new content.  So outside of balance of new weapons, what more do they do that would be messed up>?

That is a lot of expansions.

The real test of a true MMO is how fucking obnoxious are their forums?

livefreeordie wrote on May 14^th, 2013 at 3:37pm:


'Content' in DDO means new monsters, new quests, new stories etc.

'Content' in EVE means new ways for players to interact with each other to make their own stories.

In terms of DDO-style content EVE has added in the last few years, there's been Incursions (which are somewhat like raids in other games, but with a distinct competitive feel to them - you can go into "another group's raid" and compete with them to do the most damage to the enemies, and only the more successful group gets anything. Or you can shoot them up instead, which happens less than you might think.

There's also been wormholes which are dangerous space that have mechanics that make it hard to bring in the larger ships in numbers, leading to small to medium size group PVP, and there's factional warfare which promotes 1v1, 2v1 and similar size fights.

But EVE's gameplay isn't about 'lets kill new combinations of NPCs', it's 'lets design new traps to fuck over other players while dodging their traps for us'.


As for balance changes - because of the competitive nature of the game, quite small changes have massive impacts. One module was added, the Ancillary Shield Booster, that totally reshaped small gang PVP (10 or less people) and led to people using ships that were not considered viable previously.

Eladiun wrote on May 14^th, 2013 at 2:33pm:


Depends... do you consider the pay store or the Shart Exchange to be a part of the in-game economy? If so, then yes - I think that Turbine/WB has at least three accountants working on new ways to bilk the players out of cash.

If you just mean plat and how players spend it, I think Turbine has shown themselves to be fairly apathetic on that count.



As for EVE, I tried it a while back and just couldn't get the rhythm of it. Plus, it just felt like a huge, uphill struggle to be on the same level as folks who've been playing it for years and years. I dug the setting - but the gameplay and the community was a nut I just couldn't crack. Gave up after about two months of what felt like frustration.

I know long time Eve players.  I sat and "listened" to a 2 hour Corporation finance meeting tonite.  I had to assure other people in the room that it really was a game.  I'm not sure they believed me 

I played EvE for years after EQ died and I loved it. It is a sand box, but it also has quests ect. The only 'bad' thing I have to say about EvE is that it does not have a learning curve, it is more like a learning cliff. You either fight tooth and nail to get to the top, or you fall and die painfully.

Necroing is encouraged around here. Juuuust don't tell diddledoo.