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The most expensive gameing war was unsurprisingly in Eve online
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Wouldn’t it hold the positions for 2nd and 3rd places as well?
What a way to start off the a new year, amirite?
Is this game only playable on a subscription?
Next time, just send me the money and I’ll send you back paper cut outs of space ships and a recording of some laser noises
This reminded me of the dude who infiltrated a massive in-game corporation with an asshole ceo, and worked his way up to ceo/admin/leader/whatever privileges over the course of years
then he stole 10,000$ worth of currency and assets, locked the 5000members of the corpo out of their primary starbase, and then called a rival alliance in to destroy any resistance……all while getting real life threats from the founder of the corporation in the course of a couple hours
I read about this years ago, and it remains one of the coolest stories I’ve ever heard come out of an MMO
this doesbt even suprise me anymore, eve is fucking wild bro
This game is nuts. I remember reading a story once about some guy who joined this clan of pirates. They did all their robbing and pillaging together for a long time. Eventually, after a really long damn time, they trusted him with one of if not their most expensive vessel and he fucking jacked it xD was worth thousands of real life dollars.
God I loved Eve….but damn did I ever not have time for it….
Idk you, but I would have loved to presence this legendary battle.
Ah yes. Spreadsheet online!
When people see these headlines from Eve i think they get the wrong picture. For example when I quit the isk value I had was roughly 7,000$ but i gave it all away. For one its against the TOS to sell isk, second its not very easy, third if you sold it to a reseller youd get pennies on the dollar. That 7,000 would be like 500.
The way they get the value is they compare what people spend on the market to get gametime. You can buy “plex” and sell that on the market for isk. It doesnt go the other way, you cant sell isk for $$$.
Not saying M2 wasnt cool, or the hundreds of other giant fights out there. But its not actually 400k dollars getting blown up.
If you are interested there are a ton of Eve stories out there, shout out to my Imperium brethern who fought the entire universe for over a year, lost 99% of there territory, but still won the war.
How does damage in a game cost actual money?
These are the kinds of stories that keep Eve alive. 3 years from now, more nerds are gonna become bitter vets, realizing the game keeps getting worse with every update, out hundreds to thousands of dollars, and having wasted those years staring at spreadsheets and character and ship build software.
Yea thats collectively, but I had a guy that dropped 600 dollars a week for almost a year in archeage to maintain his castles.
Eve is one of the games that I want to really care about and be interested in but I just can never manage to actually do it.
Eve online fascinates me. I never want to play it, but I want to read about all of the stupid stuff that happens there
Gameing…
As the EvE ad would say, “I was there.”
These pics look like the eve battle from 2014 that cost about $330000
Unfortunately CCP, the company who made EVE, is more interested in shoehorning content into the game rather than letting it be the organic player driven sandbox that it was/should be, so the game is going to shit and players are unsubscribing in droves. They also have a long track record of investing huge sums of money into projects that ultimately fail.
Also while these battles sound epic to be a part of, they rarely are. When this many players/ships are in one system the game goes into time dilation mode where everything slows down. I was in one of these battles once. It took LITERALLY 30+ minutes for one command to go through. And often you have dropped your graphics settings to the very lowest they will go, so all you’re seeing is a black screen with some colored icons. It’s pretty miserable.
My experiences in the game are very unique and memorable, but they’ve strayed too far from what made the game great despite repeated warnings from influential, knowledgeable players. After about a decade I recently unsubscribed.
I have not and never will play EVE online but man, I sure do love reading about it. It’s fascinating.
Is there a documentary film on it or anything like that?
The date format is pretty fucked
Huh?
378 Dollars doesn’t seem that much.. ^(/s)
Who tf made this caption
I was there!
I love reading about EVE.
I hate playing EVE. Too much Excel integration.
Man I had a lot of fun with this game. Leading a group of nearly 200 people, getting better at our skills both in-game and player skill over time together…
Sucks it became one of the biggest pay to win games out there, where literally everything in the game, from characters, to skillpoints, to ships and items can be had for real money now. Trivialized the experience where you no longer had to work up what you own in game and risking it had a real impact – instead you can pay $15 and get more instantly than you’d have ever accomplished in a year of play.
Hearing these stories always made me wanna try eve…then I realized how complicated and big it is and noped the fuck out.
Eve player here, fought for a few hours in this shitshow of a battle. The servers kept crashing, time dilation was maxed out, making every second in game drag out to be around 20 seconds in real life, and yeah, we blew up a lot of shit.
Eve just announced a tool to export in game data direcrly to Excel spread sheets at their live convention. The pitch recived a standing ovation.
So, 8 years ago me and a buddy conducted a heist in wormhole space in EVE. We took 71 billion ISK worth of stuff which amounts $1,400 dollars give or take. Our names were ruined, we had to trade our characters, the alliance we stole from shortly after disbanded, and we split it all. EVE BET was still around and you could bet on sports with ISK. I lost most of it on there before just putting it all into account subs. It was the worst decision I ever made and it’s nearly ruined my enjoyment of the game. Conducting heists like this are not for everyone.
Stuff like this always sound cool and epic, but when you see the actual gameplay it is just a blob of ships huddled together, or you only see hundreds of icons and lists of text… And the framerate is usually in single digits.
EVE Online always has such awesome looking trailers of epic space battles, then you see it in game and it looks like ass.