You say that like it is a bad thing. In other MMOs you have to spend 2 weeks grinding npc monsters just to afford to buy something, much less be the right level to use it.
It -is- a bad thing. A really bad bad thing. I never said anything about other mmos being good and your example is just as bad.
What I said this was the most boring one.
The fuck it values your time spent. Well, it certainly values the time you spend with them. Actually, what CCP likes is that you pay them and don't play. Saves them bandwidth and power usage and at that, they're the grand daddy of all scammos.
Wait, it's boring because you can't upgrade your items through immediate play? I don't get it.
Or maybe I'm just enough of an old geezer to assume that games were "boring" if their actual gameplay were lacking, as opposed to it meaning that their skinner-box reward-lever doesn't give you special treats often enough in response to your hideously repetitive actions.
Nope, that's just one of the most horrible issues EVE has. The gameplay in eve is extremely fucking lacking. Back when I played it for around 6 months when it started, you basically waited for skills, made ISK (which was even more meaningless back then), did some crappy contracts or missions, fought jerks, mined over night, or got ganked by assholes near gates (or ganked people by the gates).
So the most entertaining parts of the game is either being pissed off or pissing people off. I just don't get it. Why anyone wants to play a fucking game to be bored and annoyed? I'd rather be an old geezer and grind my x-com missions than a fucking retarded youngling who gets off by doing nothing for a week and then orgasming to a gank by a gate. Which is something extremely ironic to say, due to the fact modern games are extremely lacking, plain, and without any thought required, so your example of what an old geezer would be is exactly what a new gamer is.
I tried it again lately with all the 'new' features and bleh, still fucking boring.
Anyway, go yahtzee go.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/208-Eve-OnlineFucking nerds in space.
It bet it's because they thought the PS3 would never have piracy or hackers or...
It's actually probably because Microsoft's online is notoriously hard to compromise with for things like patches, mmos, etc. That's why we've only ever seen one 360 MMO.
Why would they put it in a console in the first place? 100% of the people who play EVE obviously uses a computer to play games.
Competative reaction based games can not coexist on different platforms. In the case of a competative reaction based mmo, they would have to have completely isolated virtual worlds for each supported platform. This isn't much of a problem for instance based games like COD, but it means a pretty big investment for an mmo.
Only because programmers are fuckwads nowadays and consoles are more and more restrictive with their networking.
Stick to the PC.