EVE is only dying on forum threats like these. Mute them as fast as you can and spent your actual time flying your spaceships. Topic muted see you in space:joy:
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Sand in your nose and ears? :ostrich: 
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EVE (along with everything else in the universe) is indeed dying.
End of discussion.
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Why do people keep pointing to the total player count as the one and only indicator of the health of a game? Surely there must be other factors that should be considered instead of just “How many accounts are logged in”.
EVE is not rely dying. But I season 2 reason as of why people say the game is dying. I think of allot of people finally played enough eve, I mean playing the same game for years at some point you will be rely sick of the game. Secondly it´s mostly the community complaining but that´s what old grumpy people do complain. Food is to cold, where is my damn slippers and buhu they are changing the game I play. Yeah Grumpy old farts complaining on the forum is the biggest issue.
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Sociopath have been wishing eve dies for years, its the tall poppy syndrome, those who don’t have wish those who have bad tidings.
BUT CCP have been on a self destruct path of late, if the flood of ccp surveys are a hint of there lost focus I’d be worried too.
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Odd. Playing around 2006-2007 was actually fun.
I don’t know if Eve is dying or not. But I stopped caring a long time ago. I have take to doing IRL what I used to be able to do in Eve. That is, exploration the way it was back before it got turned into just more browser-game level farming content. Only IRL I use a metal detector, and yes I do trespass just like I did in nullsec. I’m also the nerd on the beach.
In Eve, it was all about the find. IRL is even more interesting actually. I played Eve when I didn’t have the resources and location to do what I like to do IRL. Now I’m back and the game is but fond memories.
Besides all but a few of the people I flew with are gone anyway. I could rant and rave like the good old days but I’m taking a break from Diptrace right now - I’m building a pulse induction detector that I can take under water. No sleepers IRL but I almost got tagged by a bull shark once. True story.
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Nope EVE is just being cured of cancer. Patient always looks worse before they get better when they’re on chemo.
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And ironically most of us don’t know the player count–all we get is the number of logged in accounts which is quite different.
The current active number of pilots are 17,000. It is looking optimistic.
https://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility
Seems like it’s the lowest it’s been in 5 years, just saying…
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Ok and?
No one is arguing otherwise.
The point is a PCU drop doesn’t indicate much without taking it in larger contexts.
CCP have been working on reducing multiboxing with a number of mechanics, MMOs have become less popular over the last 5+ years in general, etc.
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EVE is not even close to dying, when all the developers are gone and they have not even promised anything in 6 months, then you know it is dying.
With only minimum support + the servers you can run a game like this profitably on a fraction of the accounts.
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I suppose there is a difference between going off the rails and heading for the cliff and when you have actually impacted the river bank below.
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There is also a big difference between a dip in the road and coming off the rails.
We knew the black out was going to be a shock to player activity. The goal was a short term loss for long term gains. But considering how the vast majority of players aren’t in null sec, it was never going to be the end of the game.
We’ve more to worry from the trend of slow decline in player activity over the past 5 years than we do the dip in 2019.
I don’t think EVE is dying, but it sure as hell feels like it’s on life support right now.
CCP hasn’t given anyone anything to be excited about in the near future and we have no idea where the game is going. The only thing that remotely seems to be alive is the Hisec PvE team that’s doing an admittedly excellent job w/ the main Invasion content.
I hope we have a roadmap delivered in Vegas to show us where the game is going in Spring and Summer of 2020, because right now all that we know is some vague goals about making the game easier for new players and harder for veterans, which whilst a good premise isn’t a vision unto itself.
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Why do we need new stuff?
I think current stuff needs to be fixed.
I’d be excited about them announcing things would be getting fixed/reworked - But they haven’t done that.
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People working on new stuff is rarely the same people working on fixing old stuff. One does not exclude the other.
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