Is there any direct benefit to my EvE account ( that I actually play ) to playing the other EvE games I have no interest in ( like 99% of the gaming populace )? Ships, clothing, weapons, items, etc. that will transfer to my EvE account?
Echoes is going bye-bye, but if there’s a benefit to play it before it pops into oblivion, I’d like to know. Vanguard seems to give some crossover items to beta testers, but that’s all I’ve seen. Anything else?
Future crossover events may be a thing, but like you said so far that’s been one-way, Vanguard to EVE.
See this is what I don’t understand about Hilmar/CCP, or even Pearl Abyss since they should be running the show now. If you’re not going to make the other games actually part of the main game, why would younot at least make them valuable to play along side the main game? The majority of people who have any real interest in EvE are the people who already play it, and you’re ( CCP/PA ) effectively telling those people to get lost and ignore your other games.
Echoes (And Serenity) are run by Pearl Abyss’ Chinese partner, NetEase, while TQ and Vanguard are run by their subsidiary CCP.
Chinese law requires that foreign companies wishing to do business in the country have a domestic partner. Effectively NetEase is a franchisee, they receive EVE’s code and any updates CCP make to it, and pay part of their earnings back to PA, and in return they’re allowed to run EVE however they like for the super lucrative Chinese market, which is why their servers and games are horribly mismanaged and full of gacha mechanics, and also sometimes receive unique content, like the CONCORD highsec carrier. NetEase are not required to provide the content they make for EVE back to CCP (and thank God they don’t, their models are really bad and their balancing and game design are beyond awful). Coordinating crossover events between TQ and Echoes would be a mess, since the Chinese technically aren’t supposed to be playing on TQ at all, and would involve two different companies coordinating closer than either likely feels comfortable with.
While your post is very well written and I appreciate it, can you provide any leads so I can investigate why Chinese EVE is worse, at least technically? Or did you mean only in design?
My point is, I can believe someone being worse than CCP in design, and boy, that takes some effort, but I cannot believe Chinese are worse programmers than CCP, that one I can’t just let slide.
Maybe NetEasy is that lazy, but I want to confirm, and I’m sure not going to play that Chinese game, so you may have some evidence with you I guess. Share?
Where to begin? Pay-to-win (highsec dreads, highsec carriers, lootboxes that distribute AT hulls, whack balancing to justify charging you real money), gacha mechanics, rampant botting and RMT (if you think TQ has it bad, you know not how dark it can yet get), which of course you can’t kill because of the blue donut and no ganking, ship loss basically doesn’t happen because insurance gives you the ship and fit back, which of course wrecks the economy, causing rampant hyperinflation, and on and on. Like individual hulls being worth a dozen trillion ISK.
I haven’t actually played on Serenity, but everything I hear tells a dark story. Ask a Chinese player if you’d like first-party information, we have plenty of them on TQ these days since Serenity is so very bad.
Yes, I heard all those stuff. and yeah they are invading TQ.
I just wanted to pinpoint to the fact it’s mostly a design problem. I doubt they manage to produce so many bugs like CCP, if anything their code is prob better by now.
Thanks.
Nostalgic. Eve Echoes is a failed promises. NetEase betrayed the community just like Judas did.
Oh ■■■■, I remember now, cel phone game.
I better that my statement back, it’s very possible NetEasy is as incompetent as CCP.
We already had that situation in the past. It was called Dust 514. However it died with the PS3 and the ecosystem was only rudimentary established as far as i remember. But it was connected to EVE and interaction was possible.
