Comments on: EVE Online Prepares 500,000 Subscribers For BitTorrent Upgrade

By: drxian

drxian — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:40:00 +0000

cant download the damn client anyway its non resumeble.. idiots..

By: Last Furby

Last Furby — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:41:00 +0000

It’s not forced. There is an option. You don’t have to share your client with anyone. And distributing client has nothing to do with subscription. Actually you should even pay more because the speeds will be much faster now and you can play sooner.

By: MC

MC — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:14:00 +0000

Less business overhead = less cost to the customer ultimately.

You really are desperate for things to say against bittorrent. You come across as intellectually vacuous.

By: Mirco Romanato

Mirco Romanato — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:21:00 +0000

Someone buy PLEX (30 days of game time) for US or € then sell them in game for ISK, so they are able to buy ships, characters and many other things.

Someone, in game, have a lot of isk and use them to buy PLEX and play without paying his subscriptions.

The PLEX price is settled by the free market and float freely. CCP make a gazillion of money with PLEXes

By: Mirco Romanato

Mirco Romanato — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:12:00 +0000

EVE Online is not for sissies and pussies.
If you think it is too hard to play, there is Hello Kitty Online for you.
http://www.hellokittyonline.com/
Hello Kitty Online the official Sanrio MMORPG with social network and social media features.

By: Jorge_C

Jorge_C — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:11:00 +0000

The point was the amount of capitol needed for EVE Online to go F2P would far outstrip the amount coming in from micro-transactions alone. Even with a subscriber base they can’t afford the amount of equipment needed to satisfy the performance requirements.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:29:00 +0000

No I’m not.

My response was to the following:

“I want to see you put a MMO on multiple servers without paying for uptime. You would fail miserably.”

It’s been done. You discussing EVE online (which has a subscription model and, as you say, a different structure) misses the debating point of F2P completely.

By: Jorge_C

Jorge_C — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:48:00 +0000

You are highly underestimating the issue at hand. Take a look at the hardware they are using already (they have regular dev blogs that show off this kind of geeky info) to get a sense of the magnitude. This hardware is still inadequate for the task and they are always looking for ways to increase performance (like moving some bandwidth requirements to the users).

This is a single world universe all running on one cluster. 50k players all interacting with hundreds of millions of active objects/events going on in the game. The market system alone takes more horsepower than some mmo’s require for their entire game.

By: Jorge_C

Jorge_C — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:43:00 +0000

As a subscriber of EVE online I couldnt be happier that they are “shucking” the responsibility over to us. The lag monster must be fought on all fronts!

Don’t speak for EVE players if you aren’t one yourself.

By: BuddhaFacePalmed

BuddhaFacePalmed — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:16:00 +0000

Ok, then. I respect and agree with you that EVE isn’t for everyone.