Topic: 1 Person
So i went for a walk around new virginia and saw one person on my travels and 66 people in chat so maybe 100 people on all together. It kind of makes me sad, i really like this game and have been here from the start with 2 accounts, but i really think the game is failing.
The problem i see with games like this ( you might think very differently but this is my take on it ) is that pvp driven games just don't seem to work so well, you only have to look at all the pve games out there with game driven content, and missions are the order of the day, they are thriving. With millions of subs in some cases.
Even eve which has been going going for nearly 10 years never really took of like the others, if you look at the map there most players are in high sec and its always been like that, you cannot force people to go to low sec, or in this case onto beta no matter what the rewards are. We can have all the island you want to give us but it wont fetch more people in, and more people is what we need.
People dont want to lose there billion isk ships to other players when they are jumped and stand no chance, same here i dont want to lose my mk2 gropho and all its t4 kit to a fight where i am vastly out numbered and stand no chance, i can replace it many times over, but thats not the point. I don't mind losing mechs i have lost a few along the way but when i lost them i stood a chance of winning, but being jumped by 5 to 10 people and not being able to do anything but watch a mech die is not fun to me.
You will all comment about join a corp play with others and you are right i should and have done in other games, but I wanted to go alone for a while in here and have enjoyed myself with what i have done, but then again there is hardly anyone around to do that with now.
I want the game to survive but i have my doubts and i hope it does, but I think the game needs to have a lot bigger pve part to it and almost have pvp as a side line not the other way around, if you get people into the game with lots of story line features and missions then give the option to pvp i think more would come and try it out. As the game stands the missions really are terrible with no direction and the pvp side seems to have no goals.
This account runs out in a month or so and will still be loging in every now and then, my other run out in about 5 days and i am sorry to say i wont renew them. I will still read the forums and i hope things change and i wish the developers all the best for the future as this game has the potential to go far.
You may not agree with what i have said, and thats fine, these are just my views.