Comments on: Harcore Casual: Splitting the Genre in Two

By: Justchecking

Justchecking — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:44:01 +0000

Agreed on the "MOO" thingy. MMO is every and any game that has online multi-player.

On the success side do not kid your self, WoW was a huge success and it still has a great number of players who are willing to pay 13 euros per month and other 40-60 per 1-2 years for a new expansion.

Also, if you want to role play in eve there are ways to do it, be it with your friends or FW or in some extreme (and in my opinion crazy) cases even in 0.0.

About free-to-play games, well in a twisted way EvE online is also free to play as long as you make enough ISK and there are players who are willing to sell you a plex for ISK and it also has something like an Items Mall since you can buy cloths and things with aur.

About EvE being successful or not it depends on how you look at it.
For years EvE has a steady number of core players who are willing to pay in order to spend from a few minutes to many hours per day, so in that way it is successful though not in the numbers of WoW or world of tanks.

By: Hengroen

Hengroen — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:15:04 +0000

Whats with the recent good articles on Evenews. Have they got a new editor?
Whatever it is please keep it up.

By: OldxPlayer

OldxPlayer — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:46:12 +0000

Should have included Diablo 1-2 in the analysis. It was always fun to play solo or with groups.

By: unsatisfied reader

unsatisfied reader — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:11:30 +0000

Shut the front door. A real articlated thought on evenews24. Bravo, bravo.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:07:04 +0000

good read and I have been saying it for awhile myself.

By: shari evan

shari evan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:34:14 +0000

To be honest, 'MMO' is not a genre at all, speaking of which, mmorpg is one.
Also, i won't call these two groups long-term and short-term. Eve is successful, but not for being a excellent MMORPG, more a successful MMO "Action-SciFi RTS'ish Simulation" and yeah.. there are no other games in these extreme unusual niche. Also, it is the only long-term Online game so far, the other MMOGames like Guildwars 2 and so on are Instant-Action Games, which means: Logging in, clicking a button, have instantly PvP/PvE. You do not have to work for being successful (only player skill based for sure).

I play both, Eve and the other 'Action based' MMOGames. Also, i'm not a 'fangirl' of any of these games, not Eve nor other Games. In my opinion, Eve is a great game but as a Game it is not really successful. Compared to the million players of other games, Eve is a tiny, non triple-A game, more like an Indie-Game. In its Niche, Eve is a God. But, we will see other WoW-like numbers in the future.
There are a couple of Games with equivalent Numbers of players, gaining millions of dollar. Speaking of which, World of Tanks got 13m. Players, League of Legends would have 30-50m players. For sure, they're free to play – but getting cosmetic Items for 10 bucks, more space for items or any Pay to Win item is enough to making millions per day.

know, flame me, hate me.. be a Fanboi like every WoW/Eve/GW player!

By: hmmmm

hmmmm — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:55:28 +0000

true. this is true.