Alice Cross
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.05.12 20:47:00 -
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Why is Eve not as popular as other "tier 1" MMO games? Silly rabbit, here is why:
First take World of Warcraft with its... 7.8 million subs? Let's just say so. Now take out roughly 15% of female players and you end up with 6.6 million (all calculations are rough). Now remove pre-teens which given the average age of a wow player being early twenties (I couldn't find actual data so I'll be conservative) is around say 35%. Now we have 4.4 million. Next remove wow activities not present in eve, such as exploration (by saying not present I mean are shait), socializing with RL friends just running around (note friends, not fleet members) and showing off their new shiny (mounts, swords, etc) to others. Take that away and you'll end up with less than half but again let's be conservative and say 2.2 million. We could take more if we looked at things such as easy ganking (50mil SP vs 100mil SP in eve and lvl60 vs lvl 50 - I hope you get my point) but let's just stop here.
2.2 million.
Now comes the important part: wow is so easy a caveman can achieve glory playing it, aka IQ required is zero - anyone can do it. Eve requires a certain level of IQ. Let's say 110 at the minimum? That IQ is obtainable by roughly 1 in 4 human beings so applied that brings us down to 600k subscribers. Still way off right? Consider this: if we up the IQ to 120 we get 220k, but let's say it's "twisting the arm" and continue with 600k. The higher the IQ the higher the chances that it is being applied productively (I would hope) and the less of a chance of playing MMOs vs building one. There are many other factors involved such as game history, reputation, learning curve, glory/shame chance ratio, finances (if I could only pick one MMO) and so on.
Given the above (please feel free to poke errors out) and the current scale of other MMO games Eve players should actually hover around the 300k mark. |
Alice Cross
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.05.13 01:37:00 -
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To add to my previous contribution: there is a little bit of shait to everyone (absolutely no exception) and Eve is a game for intellectuals... Intellectual shait is the stingiest so to speak. We aren't psychopaths or trolls really, we just give everything much thought (flaw? Maybe) and all of this (game, forums) is just a nice big chessboard, nothing more. |