I’ve seen a lot of excitement around the recent FanFest announcements, and I understand many are thrilled, which is cool. However, for me personally, the announcements felt a bit meh.
Most of the reveals fell into the “Oh, cool! but probably not for me” category:
Freelance Jobs: It’s nice to see new options, but as someone already busy making the game enjoyable for me, it’s unlikely I’ll use them.
Trig Marauder + Angel Dread: These ships look cool, but realistically, they’re either out of my reach or don’t fit my playstyle.
The rest of the announcements felt more like nice quality-of-life improvements rather than big FanFest-level reveals. They seemed more suitable as mid-year updates.
I was particularly hoping for something grand, like Drifter Ships or new Drifter-themed content, especially given the current narrative direction. A major addition like that could really spark my imagination and get some excitement across the entire player base. Instead, much of what we got were organizational tools and variations on ships that only a portion of players will regularly use.
Ironically, the highlight for me was the Bastion announcement for EVE Vanguard, because it at least presented something novel and potentially impactful for the game universe. Even then, we mostly got just a schema without much detail yet.
Am I alone in feeling this way? Was anyone else hoping for something more impactful, or is this mostly a “me” thing?
Well, hoping, yes, but not expecting. I mostly enjoy niche or legacy things like rifts, abyss, mining missions, lore, so there are very little broad appeal things they could have announced. The happiest they could have possibly made me would have been some fast aligning empire Covops ship with four highs and lots of cargo, like a cloaky Sunesis, or some way to get trace amounts of Tech II moon goo in some new Empire Border Anomaly for a new solo self-found run, or like battlecruiser abyss, so, yeah.
I’d already be happy with the lore panel slides or minutes.
You’re not alone - there’s nothing extraordinary in the Legion expansion. The VFX changes (new ship models, hull fires, firefighting BOBs) are probably the coolest thing - but nothing that couldn’t have been released as a patch. Then again, what constitutes a patch these days is pretty thin…
A lot of the stuff that would’ve been in the Legion update was released in the major post-Revenant patch, so this is one reason Legion is very light on features. And to be honest, they really needed to implement that Revenant expansion patch when they did - because those issues really needed fixing.
However, it’s really disappointing that this is all their is for Legion - because CCP is basically going on hiatus for the summer after Legion - and there won’t be any real work on the Winter expansion until late August or September.
We really need a major update (August/September) to tie-us over until the Winter expansion. But I don’t think we’ll see much of anything after June, which will mainly be comprised of post-Legion patches/fixes.
I really miss the days when we had 4x expansion per year, and the roadmap didn’t contain a whack of stuff not related directly to EVE.
They are all out of creativity. They throw time and effort into guaranteed failure projects, ignore obvious player wants, and ruin things that work just fine, SUCH AS THE INFORMATION WINDOW!!!