Eve News24: It is a good time to start looking beyond Eve Online.

By riverini | Jul 23rd 2012 5:04PM
151 Comments

This might come as a non-shocker to many of you, others will inevitably whine. I have ran somewhat successfully Eve News24 for the last two and a half years – we have become the bigest Eve Online news site and part of this achievement is our drive to provide an unique experience to our readers.

It is time to start looking beyond Eve Online.

For this, we have decided to start covering games other than Eve Online, here is the lowdown:

Why:

- We feel Eve Online has reached an stagnated state atm.
- The announced tech “fix” is nothing but another patch which will solve nothing.
- We don’t expect any changes to Null-Sec warfare at least until 2013.
- Sov Warfare is not worth the trouble.
- Any novelty which could have resulted out of inferno has certainly weared off.
- There is a scarcity in enjoyable game content, even player generated.
- Blob tactics killed the fun in the game at all levels (small gang and large scale)
- CCP needs to reconsider their gameplay strategies.
- A nine years old core game mechanic needs tons of rework.
- The been there, done that feeling is grueling.
- There are no signs of CCP Games addressing this issue soon.
- The POS “revamp” does nothing to improve the game experience of the majority of the player base.

Thus:

- We will ONLY start covering other games which fit in the Eve Online player profile.
- We feel this is for the benefit of our readership.
- Already working on new theme, will look pretty much like this www.gamitsu.com
- Still considering working under a new domain name.
- Eve News24 or its succesor will still be an Eve Online website at heart.
- We know you come here for the Eve News and we will keep poasting battle report, videos, blogs and battle summaries.
- The amount of Eve News will always outweigh non-EVE pieces.
- We don’t care if some you will stop reading this website, just go elsewhere or make your own Eve News site.
- This changes won’t be immediate, but they are coming.

Games Like:

- DayZ
- World of Tanks
- Tribes: Ascendancy
- Battlefield 3
- MechWarrior: Online
- Arma2
- DUST514

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  • Tez

    BF3? Lol.

  • DarthNefarius

    First Eve morning report goes now Eve News24 gets bittervet syndrome? I suggest taking a break like I did after Incarna or the mini break I took after the Escalation/Inferno snafu's ( TBH I sould have taken another month off for this summer but saw my small communities dieing so quickly)

  • UmustBconfused

    It is GREAT to see that I am not the only one feeling like CCP have let us down in a HUGE way!

    ALL the upcoming changes like you have said will do nothing to improve anything, that is unless your a highsec dwelling drone that uses maybe 1% of EVE's gameplay. it looks good though right?

    I think CCP know that EVE is very quickly getting past it's used by date and that DUST is not going to be the savior they thought it was going to be as far as EVE is concerned.

    So I think it's great that your going to start covering other games, what about games like Perpetuum and Global Agenda? Both of which have battles for sov holding (well its not called sov in those games but its generally the same thing)

  • gss

    Xmas 2012 and spring 2013 are the critical times when CCP still might turn the boat around by actually investing real resources to Eve expansions and stopping doing stupid stuff (like Uninv).

    Average weekly player amount has been dropping for a long time time already and it is really hard to turn the ship around. People are just fed up with the empty promises and same repeated mistakes.

    Yes… it might still be possible to "save" Eve from slow death, but if it doesn't happen inside 1 year – the self inflicted wounds have done too much damage and will not heal. In other words after that point Eve will always keep losing more paying players than it obtains – no matter what.

    • crotchface

      Meh whatever dude, I started playing this game a few months ago and I fucking love it. Long live EVE!

      • Anonymouse

        I don't know how much electricity the servers need to run and how much customer service costs them, but if they reduced to a skeleton crew that only kept it all going and made minor database tweaks and still kept about 20k people logging in, it probably would run forever…

        Heck, even Dark Age of Camelot still somehow is running with only 5k – 10k subscriptions… As long as Goons or Test stick around, it will stay running I guess :P

        • gss

          yea all I said was, that if the trend continues – Eve will end up to be one of those games which will be slowly forgotten. Of course it will still continue to have it's hardcore fans which will keep the server running for ages, but in that point it will be ran with skeleton crew and with no new investments to the game play.

          You know how it goes… there is more than enough examples @ the market.

          The stats are here: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

    • Eve4eva

      player base has been dropping because of all the bots account that been removed from the game. Only time eve will die is when something like eve but better is released.

      • gss

        That's not the real main reason

  • Mani

    If your really going to be doing this you should consider sticking with dynamic event games, or Esport games, one you should consider that you didn't mention was guildwars2.

    Also there is nothing dynamic about battlefield3, which makes it pointless to report on……. Joeblow went 30-2…… cool story bro, ::gulf clap:: ……… at the end of the day nobody will care.

  • Who

    Maybe a ceiling for alliance membership at say 2000 and corp membership to be set at say 200, that we we dont end up with 7000 and 9000 man alliances owning half the available sov.

    • Hooplaa

      Right, because the CFC and HBC member alliances aren't members of a non-aggression pact outside of game mechanics…

      • Urziel99

        exactly. The mechanics of the game are but a small trifle to the metagame of politics that surrounds this game's nullsec bloc.

        • Yokohama

          Although I don't think corps, or alliance should be limited, the truth is the biggest problem in the game atm is it's not competitive, and for a PvP game that will surely kill it if it keeps up. What my corp/alliance/coalition did in Delve that last 3 weeks was a waste of time, and was in no way fun, there was simply no resistance, and in all honesty I wise I didn't deploy b/c it was a waste of time, and effort, and in reality only tipped the scale(competitively) more to my corp/alliance favor.

    • Reason

      This fixes nothing, You do understand the CFC is a coalition, combined with test all this would do is change the makeup of allied states it would do nothing.

    • Rascal

      What you need to add is a director in CFC with actual balls and having the coalition reset each other.

      That'll get rid of the stagnation in one blow, since then there will not be a need for another big coalition to oppose them.

      Its happened in the past, it'll happen again. Chillax.

    • whatever

      alliances like Stain Empire existed way before creating alliances was even supported through game emchanics

  • Rascal

    I thought Riverini couldn't get any more stupid, but here I have been proven wrong.

  • wrong name you tool

    omg what good idea! from now on i will only visit this site for my TRIBES ASCENDACY news!

  • dobin

    EVE Online: dying since 2003.

    Really if you find eve boring your either 1) doing it wrong or 2) playing the wrong game

  • bob

    For once Riverini is actually right, EVE is really stagnant at the moment, most of my firends myself included just log in to chat and change skills, 0.0 is dead, high-sec has no content and you basically have two alliances miling all the isk of of EVE.

    EVE at the moment is like a patient slowly dying, it either needs to get fixed or it will become terminal.
    Christ in the last 3 weeks alone 30 members from my corp have just stopped playing EVE all citing the same reasons . "it's boring" "0.0 sucks balls athe moment" "There is nothing to do"

    Even me being a hard-core addict to this game am really really bored of it.

    • trentdarby126

      move to faction warfare

    • Max

      Well maybe if all the incestuous alliances would stop trying to create uber-alliances and start fighting each other, things would be more interesting. This power-block crap is absurd. 0.0 is whining about how boring 0.0 is – it's your own f*ing faults, mates. Why don't you all go wardec each other for luls?

  • Reynolds Wrap

    So. Where are all the comments about this being a reaction to upcoming changes and their effect on the Panama associated press's backers?

    Or were they all deleted because they were SPOT ONNNNNN

  • Noceur

    - DayZ <- playing, awesome game.
    - World of Tanks <- wtf is this.
    - Tribes: Ascendancy <- playing, awesome game.
    - Battlefield 3 <- playing, quite retarded casual game.
    - MechWarrior: Online <- wtf is this.
    - Arma2 <- playing(?)
    - DUST514 <- fucking console crap but still related to EVE so w/e.

    Well all in all I guess it's fine for someone like me but I believe it's a bad change for the site and it will probably lose many readers. GL.

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  • AnActualEVEPlayer

    "Its EVE thats boring and stagnent, not us, honest!"

    HAHA EN24 IS DEAD.

    GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE

  • AnActualEVEPlayer

    "Its EVE thats boring and stagnent, not us, honest!"

  • CFCgrunt

    Retirement Club sucks = Eve is boring. Right…

    • Unthinkables

      true true….they cant beat the tengus

      • Rascal

        The Tengus of the filthy renters.

  • fa 123

    I don't think eve is dead, but improving… there are bittervets in every game. Small gang and solo pvp are (STill) where the fun is at. The bittervets here whine when we get a battle report covering small gang stuff, but I really like reading those. Other games, meh.

  • Rascal

    Confirming Riverini joins combat ops an hour late and then appears in an Arazu to a HellCat fleet.

  • Please Don't

    I understand covering Dust, covering other games that are not related to internet spaceships tho… you will lose Eve viewers interest I bet.

  • Silentskills

    I guess I'll have to clear a bookmark from my browser

  • Goonie Masturbation

    You should post a poll where we can vote on what games you'll be focusing on now. I'm voting for Hello Kitty.

  • Keep it clean

    I come here for Eve News, Dust news I´d enjoy too. The rest is just noise.

  • Just a guy

    Mechwarrior Online is an interesting idea, I'm afraid that they might be shooting themselves in the foot with their higher than average specs though. Its envisioned as a free to play game but the specs are high enough to preclude casual gamers, which are the staple of free to play.

    It's possible those specs will come down some as the game is still in closed beta, but I have concerns on the long term health of the game as a free to play, though I've loved Battletech and Mechwarrior for over 20 years.

  • CareBearStares

    Is this a rally call for Eve Online 2?

  • Simon

    If nothing else, this post has gotten me to download the Dayz mod.

  • Mattias Kerensky

    Mechwarrior Online ftw, also its nice to think I'll be able to get more game news from one site.

  • Jim

    I guess the big bucks aren't rolling in from EVE readers. I hear FPS shooters are a gold mine.

  • Have A Nice Day

    I just wanted to say, riverini, you sir are an idiot. Instead of digging deeper into EVE Online you just… Give up? Decide to report less? No more double or triple posting of the same fucking news in one day? As you and your ''staff'' are all amature reporters I never expected much of anything from this paper, but this takes the cake honestly.

    All I ever read on here is about the null sec power block alliances, their pets, a few blips about large high sec and low sec alliances and of course news that anyone could read from CCP themselves with some of the EVE News biased take on it(and occasionally some logical unbiased thoughts).

    For a game with 10s of thousands of players logging in each and every single day, new alliances and corporations forming all the time, conflict abound and so much going on… Yet you are going to stop reporting so much about EVE Online and spread out to other games.

    Okay, that's cool. So I can get some news about other games, right on. But I think you fail to see how much goes unreported in EVE Online that would touch other players. You know not everyone is part of a major 1,000 man alliance? Or do smaller groups not matter in the grand scheme of things?

    Why not report on news per region? There is a lot going on in so many places that -doesn't- involve Goonswarm, their pets, Delve, and the usual crap. Hell you might get more readers and more money for your ads.

    Power Blocks, biased writing, and a few takes on dev blogs… I guess it might be beyond your capacity to report on things that are interesting to local populations that don't include the bigger names in the game.

    It's okay though, take a shit on thousands of players by saying they aren't interesting enough to report on. I'm fine with being alienated and told I don't matter, just remember it goes both ways. I expect the site to flop and be just as uninteresting as EVE News thinks most of EVE Online is.

  • QQ eve is boring

    ofc eve is boring….fucking goons and test have all the fun….and since riverini can't do shit in this game he will go and play w/e games

    • dani lizardov

      goons and test have all the fun… ? You think?

      Goons: 9113 members
      Test: 8071 members
      and look the news and battle reports. How many they bring to a fight?

      I live in fountain and delve area and there is nothig put empty space…
      It looks to me that Goons and Tests might have all the fun, but not in eve… why?

  • lugalbandak

    lol bittervets , itsn not the game its you lols.

    Been playing now also for more as 7 years but i have every year more fun with eve.

    have fun with your new website.

  • Smoke

    2.5 years and I think your grammar has gotten even worse.

    "I have ran somewhat successfully Eve News24 for the last two and a half years – we have become the bigest Eve Online news site and part of this achievement is our drive to provide an unique experience to our readers."

    lol

  • Gah

    So you are trying to become TMDC?

    Doesn't seem like a good idea.

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