{"id":1186,"date":"2014-01-07T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-01-07T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:30:39","slug":"blogbanter-52-over-the-hills-and-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/07\/blogbanter-52-over-the-hills-and-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"BlogBanter 52 – Over the hills and far away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 52nd edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the\u00c2\u00a0Blog Banter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nGo to the always useful EVE-Offline.net (http:\/\/eve-offline.net\/?<\/wbr>server=tranquility<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0and take a look at the All Time (weekly average) graph for concurrent accounts logged in.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eve subs history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
For the past four and a half years, the graph has hovered around that 30,000 mark; it is, for all intents and purposes, a plateau. But everything must come to an end sooner or later and that is what this blog banter is about.<\/em><\/div>\n
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What’s on the other side of that plateau?\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/div>\n
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Is there any path for CCP to follow to raise those numbers upwards for a sustained period, or is EVE going to enter a decline to lower logged in numbers from this point? How soon will we see an end to this plateau? Months? Years? Or will you argue that ‘never’ is a possibility? Or you can look at the root causes of the plateau and tackle the question if it could have been avoided or shortened if CCP had taken different actions in the past.<\/em><\/div>\n
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My response :<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The past few years Eve has had an equilibrium between people leaving and people new and\/or returning to the game. Hence the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcplateau\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mentioned above. Probably somewhere in the future this plateau will start to slope down. When this is going to happen is anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guess.<\/p>\n

People might leave for the next \u00c2\u00a0Big SF Game. The only thing that could be considered an Eve killer on the horizon at the moment is Star Citizen, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to see about that. Maybe some other MMO or SF game will come along and steal it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s players ! But people can play multiple games, so I seriously doubt it.<\/p>\n

Probably the only thing that can kill Eve is Eve itself. The game has been getting a bit stale lately. The last few expansions didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really add much to the game, it did make it better with bugfixes and all though. There has to come a point where more people leave (or cancel their second and third account, big thing in Eve) then there are coming in. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long CCP can get away with these minimalist \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcexpansions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00c2\u00a0before the players are really starting to get bored.<\/p>\n

And once that happens there will be a tipping point where Eve gets a serious overhaul and Bob from Marketing decides a new, bigger playersbase that wants to spent cash in a cash shop is worth more than the current playersbase. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where free to play etc.comes in.<\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take a while before we get there ;).<\/p>\n

Other participants at Kirith’s Inner Sanctum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 52nd edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the\u00c2\u00a0Blog Banter page. * * * * * Go to the always useful EVE-Offline.net (http:\/\/eve-offline.net\/?server=tranquility)\u00c2\u00a0and take a look at the All Time (weekly average) graph for concurrent accounts logged in. For the past … Continue reading BlogBanter 52 – Over the hills and far away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,3],"tags":[164,59],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogbanter","category-general","tag-blogbanter","tag-ccp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXll4-j8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}