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EVE Online - Coming to Steam
Hardin
Member Posts: 70
in EVE Online
Just saw this:
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1414&cc=SI
Seems EVE may be getting a new influx of users soon...
First MMORPG on Steam?
Amarr Victor
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That's fine, just so we don't have to use Steam to access it.
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Yeah I just posted that in the EvE forums as well
You are the Goonie? From here? http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=688694
Amarr Victor
Oh I'm a Goonie but not that one lol
I meant the EvE forums here, I saw the story on Shacknews
This is basically just advertising for CCP to help boost their subscription numbers seeing as you can already get it as a download.....
EVE was much better when it had like 4000 people online at prime time, it's just tooo overpopulated on one server for my liking now.
I won't buy anything that requires steam.
I doubt it will require Steam, just as Universe at War: Earth Assault does not require Steam, or COD4, or any other title that Steam offers for sale. Steam is an outlet, not the vendor/developer.
-- Brede
Depends on the distribution model that CCP and Valve come up with. There are alot of non Valve games that, if purchased via steam will always open Steam when launched.
Many games that I launch with X-Fire will launch Steam first if that was my purchase method for it. Of course I would guess it is possible to just take advantage of the extra week of trial and the discount then just download the stand alone client so you don't have to go through Steam to launch it at all.
props need to be given to CCP for their smart moves. I can complain a little bit about the nitty gritty in their game but CCP has intelligent people running the show.
Lol yer nuts, during the time EVE had 4000 players there was not even half the content there is now, plus loads of bugs.
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That's a great move by CCP. More people means more content. Yep... people are the content of the game. Without people, you can't buy or sell items, you have no one to kill... no politics, no life, empty system and worse...
However, CCP needs to find a way to make 0.0 space easier for everyone to get in.
I apologize for not knowing
But what is steam, and what is its significance?
Torrential
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
This is Steam.
It's kind of like Direct2Drive, but rather than being web based, it runs as it's own desktop application and you have to log into it in order to use it. But that's over simplifying a bit....
Here are the some things that steam does:
Some people have complained that it slows down their games, but I just downloaded The Orange Box off of Steam and I have had no problems with it. Downloading games off of it beats the hell out of looking like some socially retarded man-child at the game sections of Best Buy or Wal-mart, that's for sure!
I would like to see CCP add a new expansion where Empire is at war with an alien species. They could have military sectors with lots of PVE content (maybe even some PVE fleet content) where PVP is consentual and some border systems where PVP is not consentual.
I have always felt that this game could be a lot more successful if they opened the game up a little bit to other playstyles.
"Those who dislike things based only on the fact that they are popular are just as shallow and superficial as those who only like them for the same reason."
You want to be able to fly around without seeing anyone. In a hard-core PvP game with a high death penalty, you need low populations. EVE with a high population would have gatecampers at every exit from low security space 24/7.