The summer has passed, but Eve has not returned to 40,000 concurent users

Tecros_Shtemerk · February 22, 2019, 8:59pm

https://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

WHY ??

Rivr_Luzade · February 22, 2019, 9:02pm

Look at latest EVE development and you know.

Ms_Steak · February 22, 2019, 9:37pm

because you live on the other side of the pancake, obviously.

Mina_Sebiestar · February 22, 2019, 9:56pm

Always hated crowded games …

Foggy_Bernstein · February 22, 2019, 9:57pm

That’s rhetorical, right?

You couldn’t be so dumb as to not already know the answer.

Caleb_Seremshur · February 22, 2019, 9:58pm

Could bang on and on about the game getting ‘worse’ or whatever, truth is people are unsubbing their alts and losing interest. By this point 96% of all people who ever tried EVE have quit the game. The devs lack the money and/or interest to make EVE bigger or better. It’s probably about time they started trimming the dead systems that no one ever visits. Compressing space a bit will alleviate the ennui pvpers suffer when roaming and more ships dying means better profits for industrialists.

As the game gets smaller in population the absolute wasteland of empty space will eat away at the people who are left. There’s a reason why deserts are empty.

Solstice_Projekt · February 22, 2019, 11:09pm

Wrong summer.
Try again in September.

Unive_Aajavv · February 23, 2019, 2:22am

Well atleast looking at the 5 year graph it doesnt seem to be dying but stagnating yes. They just need some major content updates and I feel like that would revitalize the game. The notion that they’re not making enough money for development is garbage at best. They’re making far more money now than they were 5-10 years ago. The same people who had accounts with alts still have those accounts and alts omega status and low they’re buying plex as well.

Oliver_Delorean · February 23, 2019, 4:05am

I’m the one! Subbed all this 6 years and also bought PLEX. The time is over!
The game have huge potential but it’s not going to be used.

I have renamed eve launcher to ”Carebears Online“, Timerz edition.

Daichi_Yamato · February 23, 2019, 7:44am

I very much doubt that. Their peak income that I’ve seen was 2012ish. I don’t believe it has ever gone back to that level.

Player activity is down despite going free2play as well. So it looks like older former omegas are using alphas to play whilst unsubbing.

Tipa_Riot · February 23, 2019, 7:57am

They make good money with EvE, but this money is going to other projects like this new not yet announced MMO they are hiring staff for.

EvE is their cash cow, not their growth product, they invest only the minimum to keep the lights on, and the profits rolling.

Agondray · February 23, 2019, 3:06pm

its 1 thing for other MMOs to easily get crowded, but with eve we can use more people, because a lot of space out there is empty.

I myself live off in dead areas where i hardly see anyone minus multi boxer, a bot, and some people passing by.

now if only people would stop trying to treat eve like is was Single Player.

Solstice_Projekt · February 23, 2019, 3:25pm

Do you mean “stop”? Because most of what I’m seeing, most people really treat it like a single player game.

Agondray · February 23, 2019, 3:58pm

yeah thats my bad. stand corrected

Herzog_Wolfhammer · February 23, 2019, 8:46pm

When you realize that Eve’s biggest problem is having to go through fatal funnels we call “gates”.

Solstice_Projekt · February 23, 2019, 9:23pm

Post 16 and it’s still winter.

Tecros_Shtemerk · February 23, 2019, 9:37pm

The worst thing is that you are absolutely right, you are the winner and the ccp is a loser

Solstice_Projekt · February 23, 2019, 9:50pm

Nono. The thing about summer, which you are talking about, is about the european/US summer. Here, in the northern hemisphere, we still have winter.

Where do you live in the southern one?

March_rabbit · February 23, 2019, 10:55pm

I always wondered the same.
Usually it is:

summer: people going to vacations
fall: students are busy
winter (especially around Xmas): people spend time with their families
Spring: students are busy again

Basically every season is too busy for EvE players to be online. So you should not expect full servers.

The only question is: why couple years back we had more players online?

Ghost_O_Mo · February 23, 2019, 11:18pm

I can’t speak for why pve players quit. I think CCP should have that figured out by now.

I can tell you that I personally knew dozens of people who stopped playing with each of the nerfs to PvP:
Late 2011-early 2012: profession system PvP goes petitionable.
May 2012- wardecs go to 25 mil to start, allies free guarantees every aggression is met by fighting marmites.
Dec 2012- crimewatch drives can flippers out almost 100%
Can’t remember when the watch list went away and eliminated hunting.
Now dec 2018- war mechanics changed so no highsec Corp ever needs have PvP inflicted on it—- structure bashing remains

Literally, my entire rich game community quit playing.

Entire alliances just unsubbed and left.

I don’t know about the carebears, they never seem to have shown up to replace us PvP bad guys… but I know we all left.

How many of us were there? Was our retention better back then?