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Sigh. I’m not going to argue statistics with someone who doesn’t even know that sentences start with a capital letter.
Cue the 4 Yorkshiremen…
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It is not dead, just alot less ‘people’ play EVE these days.
Multi-boxing is a much bigger thing now though, so if you don’t have a job or any responsibilities in your life, you could set up 10-15 alts and do Homefront Operations or Faction Warfare against the other 200 people doing the same. It would certainly help boost player count for CCP’s marketing team.
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They had no issue passing up subscribers to go completely Free/P2W.
In 2003 it was a brand new game, with no player base, going from 0 to 5000 in months. And thereafter having continuous growth for over 10 years. So no that was not dead.
Can argue exactly when Eve died based on a lot of things, I am just going to go fast by online count here, and say that in 2015 where it last spend more than half its time above the current average player count. Eve died. Not that I personally thought it had at this point, and as always when looking at these things I get very sad I didn’t join in time to see what Eve Online really was.
Now Eve is so dead, that even after 9 years as a corpse, we are still pulling down on the lifetime average of 36k, with our current 1 month average of 22k. This part always blow my mind, even after so many years, the average is NEARLY TWICE the current people online. Eve really was HUGE.
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2?
Highly unlikely.
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I’m sure they were AFK the entire way.
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player number wise no, activity wise pretty much yes, lowsec and null sec are stagnant and not much happening anymore
Lol…one minute we have someone claiming they met only 2 people in 50 jumps, the next we have someone claiming their regular ‘profession’ ( most likely watching Netflix while AFK ) is being swarmed by other players.
What’s more, it is incredibly naive to imagine that any content in Eve is isolated from generating further opportunity and content. Various forms of layered content are precisely how the Eve ecosystem works. Nobody’s ‘preventing’ anyone from doing anything.
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A quick and random check of killboard, and there were 50 kills in lowsec just beween 13.32 and 13.57…28,000 kills in the past week…3.09 Trillion worth. Apparently 4000 kills a day is ‘not much happening’. And that’s just lowsec…nullsec had 8,000 kills a day, while highsec had 2,500.
So, every day there are 14,500 kills…that’s one every 6 seconds…but there’s ‘not much happening’. Lol.
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Didn’t you get the memo. The game is dead… Do not believe your lying eyes. It is dead. Because people said so.
Even as there are at the moment a little over 27,000 players at the moment…
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There was 33,000 a little earlier. In the 3 years I’ve been in Eve, some of the highest figures have been within the past year.
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EVE-Offline :: EVE-Online Status monitor
Now vs then. Hard to argue with twice the numbers back then.
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Games don die, they go in Gb Limbo.
Here is a artlce they talk dead and deading games. Enjoy
Having less population doesn’t mean a game is dead. No one is arguing that EVE has lost players from it’s peak.
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Still reminds me of the old Grateful Dead joke…
How many Grateful Dead fans does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they just keep following it around refusing to believe it’s burnt out.
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I guess Final Fantasy XIV is dead by that logic, or WoW or any other game that lost more than half it’s peak population, despite being industry leaders. (EVE is well in the top 20 by most counts)
Simple fact is, the game has an active community and has regular content releases, AND makes profit for CCP.
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Not as much as it did and not as much as it could.