# Would you, the players who already play, start the game at its current state, and keep on? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744 "2017-06-29T00:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Yiole\_Gionglao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yiole_gionglao/32/516090_2.png) [@Yiole\_Gionglao](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yiole_Gionglao)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/161 "2018-11-06T23:03:13Z")
Oh, new portrait! Interesting… 🤔 Can you post a higher resolution of it? I need it for my collection! (if this necro is closed, post at the LAGL thread Please?) ---
**Author:** ![Lulu\_Lunette](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lulu_lunette/32/133822_2.png) [@Lulu\_Lunette](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lulu_Lunette)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/162 "2018-11-07T04:53:13Z")
![95510136~3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/d/d/dd27bfb9973d2a4642e7f66ed336bce5776769f8.jpeg) @Yiole_Gionglao nice to see you again 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/163 "2018-11-07T08:07:23Z")
@ISD_Sakimura Another necro, [1-year old](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/158). Please kill it. ---
**Author:** ![Yiole\_Gionglao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yiole_gionglao/32/516090_2.png) [@Yiole\_Gionglao](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yiole_Gionglao)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/164 "2018-11-07T10:08:22Z")
Got it, thank you! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Gorp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/linus_gorp/32/317333_2.png) [@Linus\_Gorp](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Linus_Gorp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/165 "2018-11-07T10:21:52Z")
> [@zluq\_zabaa](#): > > Ha, this thread didn’t automatically close? None of the threads created in the early days of these forums have that restriction. ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Reinhart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/markus_reinhart/32/133706_2.png) [@Markus\_Reinhart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Markus_Reinhart)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/166 "2018-11-07T10:46:40Z")
EVE right now is a thousand times easier to get in to compared to when I started. It actually works (most of the time) and if you put effort in to it it’s a great MMO to this day. In fact I’d be happy to be a newbie allover again, knowledge and experience wise. Having to learn all kinds of new things, wonder at the funky stuff I’m not used to yet. ---
**Author:** ![LuisWu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/luiswu/32/157282_2.png) [@LuisWu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/LuisWu)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/167 "2018-11-07T11:02:58Z")
Nope, my accounts are active only because I can pay them playing \<1h per week, and some months I don’t even reach that time playing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Boggart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/johnny_boggart/32/503767_2.png) [@Johnny\_Boggart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Johnny_Boggart)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/168 "2018-11-07T11:05:15Z")
I stated the game on October 28th 2017 so my character is a little more than one year old and I’m addicted to the game. So yes, you can still be addicted to the game in his current state as the game didin’t evolve too much in one year…. But I got addicted on day one and a spend a lot of time to learn the game, mostly by myself, by reading over & over all the documentation, wikis I could find on every aspect of the game. At one point that when I joind my corp, most corp members were surprised that being one month old I could know more on the game than many corp veteran. But I know I’m an exception… The game is so complex, so demanding than on 100 players joining on day one, I’m sure not even 50% still play after one month… How many after one year? Might be only a few. the turnover on Eve is probably intense… ---
**Author:** ![zluq\_zabaa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zluq_zabaa/32/19011_2.png) [@zluq\_zabaa](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zluq_zabaa)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/169 "2018-11-07T12:23:21Z")
> [@Markus\_Reinhart](#): > > EVE right now is a thousand times easier to get in to compared to when I started. It actually works (most of the time) and if you put effort in to it it’s a great MMO to this day. > > In fact I’d be happy to be a newbie allover again, knowledge and experience wise. Having to learn all kinds of new things, wonder at the funky stuff I’m not used to yet. Despite what I said before, I agree with you here. The learning experience in the beginning is absolutely awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Yiole\_Gionglao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yiole_gionglao/32/516090_2.png) [@Yiole\_Gionglao](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yiole_Gionglao)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/170 "2018-11-07T13:19:41Z")
Well, the retention after first month it’s 5% of all new players. 50% of them don’t even finish the tutorial… so, welcome to a select club of survivors! “Look at the 9 guys ahead of you and the 10 guys behind you. None of them will be here within a month. Do you think you have what it takes?” 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Reinhart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/markus_reinhart/32/133706_2.png) [@Markus\_Reinhart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Markus_Reinhart)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/171 "2018-11-07T18:26:33Z")
Part of that is because of what EVE IS, most of that is because the NPE is a piling steam of ■■■■ that would put anyone off. ---
**Author:** ![Herzog\_Wolfhammer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/herzog_wolfhammer/32/452132_2.png) [@Herzog\_Wolfhammer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Herzog_Wolfhammer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/172 "2018-11-07T22:40:57Z")
I would. The game is indeed looking better than it ever has, and it has matured nicely. The only downside is that it’s mostly empty now. If we had the kinds of crowd from 2008-2012 period with this range of content it would be gloriously chaotic and interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/173 "2018-11-09T19:30:34Z")
I wanted to start some new adventure with my alpha account but guess what. ## ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR WHILE REFRESHING TOKEN It doesnt want to go away. ---
**Author:** ![Sitting\_Bull\_Lakota](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sitting_bull_lakota/32/438272_2.png) [@Sitting\_Bull\_Lakota](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sitting_Bull_Lakota)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/174 "2018-11-10T16:35:12Z")
My first experience with EvE was through an enthusiastic friend. I didn’t stick around. A while later I did more research, found evemon and made a skillplan, and launched my main with startup isk from a plex sale. I wish I had started now vs then. I was overly protective of my implants which was a much larger part of the plex then vs now, and I had to grind for standing for jump clones. I would have been far more reckless with pvp if I started now vs then. Imagine being a new player and parking your training clone for the day so you can run off and lose ships and pods for an hour then coming back to switch to your trainer before logging off! ---
**Author:** ![Rain6637](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rain6637/32/404316_2.png) [@Rain6637](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rain6637)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/175 "2019-02-22T10:16:10Z")
I am a current player who plays and doesn’t play so there’s that. So no. But I make forum posts so actually yes I would not play but I would like I do now but don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Caleb\_Seremshur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/caleb_seremshur/32/399348_2.png) [@Caleb\_Seremshur](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Caleb_Seremshur)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/176 "2019-02-22T15:21:53Z")
Even though this thread is a dinosaur and probably needs to be locked, I will throw my 2c on. I know plenty of people who returned after biomassing that are doing just fine. Personally I don’t think I would but its not exactly a hard game once you have a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Rain6637](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rain6637/32/404316_2.png) [@Rain6637](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rain6637)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/177 "2019-02-24T10:19:22Z")
Thread is dying! ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_Aideron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ace_aideron/32/465170_2.png) [@Ace\_Aideron](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ace_Aideron)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/178 "2019-02-25T07:35:00Z")
Short answer: No. I’ve been playing since 2015, with a couple of pretty long breaks, during which I remained subscribed. I recently started a new character, and decided to walk through the New Character Experience. If that had been my first exposure to Eve, there’s no way I would have ever upgraded to a paid subscription. I would have quickly stopped logging back in to update the skill queue for my Alpha, and I probably would never have found a good corp to hang with in null – which is what made the game fun for me, and is the main reason I’ve lasted as long as I have. ---
**Author:** ![NotTheSmartestCookie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/notthesmartestcookie/32/168266_2.png) [@NotTheSmartestCookie](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/NotTheSmartestCookie)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/179 "2019-02-25T18:06:35Z")
If I had to start over, but could continue playing with the same great bunch of people I now play with, then I would. Even if we assume all those people stopped playing I can at least use my knowledge of EVE and how people play it to find another great group and easily avoid the toxic ones. ---
**Author:** ![Bumpy\_Kai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bumpy_kai/32/130770_2.png) [@Bumpy\_Kai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Bumpy_Kai)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744/180 "2019-02-25T20:01:40Z")
Kinda sorta … I’m staying as alpha and occasionally logging in and make fun of the tools that actually pay for this ■■■■. So I guess its sorta continuing to play ? On a side note, they’re beginning to rage over on Reddit over plex prices cuz Rorqualz and multiboxxxing … You guys should all go over and check it out, its some really funny ■■■■. Made me laugh, now the rest of my day will be more enjoyable. I guess from this perspective Eve Online is still entertaining, and thus a good game. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744.md?page=8) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/would-you-the-players-who-already-play-start-the-game-at-its-current-state-and-keep-on/7744.md?page=10)