+ Komplex
+ Több lehetőség, hogyan játszol
+ Hatalmas beutazható terület
+ Átlátható techtree
+ Sok fajta űrhajó
+ Több frakció
+ Széleskörű karakter testreszabási lehetőség
+ Átlátható fejlődési útvonal
+ Szép grafika
+ Rendszeres karbantartások
+ Részletes leírások mindenhez (küldetések, tárgyak, hajók)
+ Többféle navigálási lehetőség
+ Többféle kamera kezelési lehetőség
+ Testreszabható UI és karaktertörténet
+ Ingyenes játéktartalom
0 Érzelmi hullámvasút
0 Váltakozó játékélmény (a nagyon pozitívtól a nagyon negatívig, a kellemes relaxációtól a dög unalomig)
0 Van hogy jól elmagyaráz dolgokat a játék, de van hogy félrevezet.
- Kivárhatatlan tanulási idők (kezdőként elég sok a 10-18 óra/ képesség, de aki előfizet annak van itt olyan képesség is, amit 240 napon át kell tanulnia és mondjuk csak egy olyan felszerelés használatát teszi lehetővé, ami megnöveli a hajód egyik paraméterét 5%-al. Nyilván a legfejlettebb hajóknál ez nagyon sokat számít.)
- Rengetegszer nem indul el a játék, nem azért mert nincs szerver, hanem mert egy-egy frissítéssel elrontanak egy olyan dolgot, mint a bejelentkezés. Van aki tud játszani, van aki nem a következő frissítésig.
- A játékban annyi játékbeli pénz van forgalomban, hogy elég ha a játékosok 1%-a úgy dönt, hogy most mindet elkölti/szétosztogatja/kivesz mindent az aukcióról drágán és felrak szinte teljesen ingyen, képes olyan szinten felborítani a játék egyensúlyát, hogy igazságosan fejlesztői beavatkozások nélkül képtelenség lenne helyreállítani. Több ilyen akció képes a játék végleges leállítását kiváltani. (Voltak is erre példák, mikor a játékosok tüntettek és ezzel fenyegetőztek azért, hogy a fejlesztők meghallgassák és reagáljanak kérésükre.)
- Hiába a nagy bejárható terület a játék jelentős részében mindig csak ugyanazokon az utakon (0.0...01%-án) haladsz végig.
- Macerás irányítás
- Bugos küldetések
- Pillanatok alatt elveszíthetsz mindent, amin napokig (egyeseknél évekig) dolgoztál.
- Átláthatatlan kezelési felületek
- Hangok és zenék terén nincs a toppon.

Összességében: Hiába van valami jól kidolgozva, ha nem tudod élvezni. Mindig csak olyan értékes hajóval dokkolj ki, amit nem félesz elveszíteni. Tudd, hogy mivel szeretnél később foglalkozni, mert utólag már nem tudod megváltoztatni, vagy rengeteg időt kell várnod, mire az ahhoz szükséges dolgokat is kitanulod. A játékban lévő ingyenes funkciókkal is bővel el lehet lenni legalább 200 órán keresztül, utána meg dönthetsz úgy, hogy szeretnél-e többet, jobbat, mást, vagy azt csinálod, amit eddig is csináltál.

I can no longer in good faith recommend this game to anyone. It boasts of being a sandbox with ‘player-driven economy’ yet the devs keep putting their thumb on the scale with their artificial ‘resource shortages’ and contrived ‘loss mechanics’. I joined in 2015 during Citadel. They went from ‘we want you to own structures’ to ‘we want you to lose structures’ to ‘we want you to lose everything you own and be happy about it.’

EVE had been on my ‘to do’ list for years but I’d never gotten around to it before being busy with other games. I tried it, played the tutorial missions and, having done crafting for guildmates in previous mmos, almost immediately fell in love with industry. I’d dabble in pvp and missions from time to time but mining and building gave me the greatest enjoyment. I used to love building ships for friends. I’d GIVE friends ships. I started getting into reactions but stopped when every base I tried moving to kept getting blown up.

Last year about this time the devs decided to gut mining across the board. They actually said something to the effect of ‘we feel like people had their fun now it’s time to take it all away’. Well to no one’s surprise but the devs, people I knew for years quit the game en masse. There was an ice-mining multi-boxer with 12 accounts that helped me get my start early on that dropped off the face of the planet. A single parent with 5 miners ended up quitting to. Fully 95% of people in EU I’d gotten to know since I started quit the game thanks to the devs’ abhorrent PLEX price-hiking money-grabbing scheme. An entire corp based in Germany quit. Practically every single EU miner I’d cut my teeth with either unsubbed or quit outright. I remember there used to be a guy from Finland who told me he once worked in Texas and it took him 2 years to rid himself of that Southern accent. I remember there used to be a Scotsman with a voice that sounded like whiskey and marshmallows. I miss those people, and the devs drove them away.

For all the boasting of ‘player-driven content’ the devs seem hellbent on stripping out everything ‘player-centric’ about the game. They’ve actually REMOVED content since when I started, and this Triglavian Invasion bs they promoted with ‘changing the game forever’ just sliced and diced space and turned things into a nightmare for people like me that work long shifts and come home to unwind. I had such high hopes when they teased new enemies in the previous year, but I feel like they squandered what could’ve been good content. If you fought for EDENCOM you basically got nothing for your efforts as they completely removed certain sites and nerfed others into obsolescence.

Long before the nerf to mineral composition, I had to vigorously defend bases against poachers who would come in odd hours and abscond with as much rare ore as they could get their grubby mitts on. We actually caught a streamer red-handed who bragged about how much rare ore he could find in our belts, and when the local German miners defended their bases, he said “wow, X corp does NOT like us in this system”. THAT was “player-based” content! There was no shortage of conflict even in high-sec. If it wasn’t poachers it was gankers, griefers, extortionists you name it.

You should lose ships if you’re careless like if you autopilot a freighter with billions in goods through Uedama. You should lose ships if you fit EM resist when the site requires Thermal. You should lose ships if you do a mission and don’t read up that there are rats that warp scram and neut you dry if you’re not careful. You should lose ships if you try gas mining by a wormhole and don’t book it before the Drifters show up. Not because the devs ‘really really want you to lose things’.

Now I see devs are teasing ‘dynamic’ changes to industry to ‘revitalize’ and ‘improve’ what they spent over a year completely destroying. There is no ‘new hat’ that will get me to recommit to playing. I don’t have the disposable income to justify what’s become yet another sunken-cost fallacy. The devs are making the EXACT same mistakes that drove me away from previous MMOs where they decided they were going to start behaving like nannies instead of making a good game that engaged players. They’ve fully nerfed everything that drew me to the game in the first place, and every time its the same excuse: ‘we have to discourage behaviors that lead to botting’. HOW ABOUT YOU BAN THE BOTS!!! Oh no but they pay subs too apparently. If the devs want the game to be nothing but whales they can have it. I’m just done. I canceled 4 of my accounts previously and they expire in May. I will be canceling my ‘main’ account once I get back from fast. I’m just done. Stick a fork in me I’m done. The devs have let the most repulsive, abhorrent, toxic people rule the roost. Instead of addressing problems its all just nerf, nerf, nerf, nerf, nerf, nerf, nerf and I've had it.

If a game is going to dictate to me how to play, I’m just going to stop playing. If devs feel like they don’t have to make a good game I feel like I want to spend time playing, then I don’t have to give them money. I don’t exist for the sake of putting money in their pocket. When I quit the first MMO I’d ever played, a dev there actually said something to the effect of ‘deal with it. You don’t like it, go play Skyrim’. Well you know what? Guess which game I’m still playing and which game I’m not?

Update: I logged in Easter Sunday I had given up EVE for Lent and entrusted care of a station to a friend only to find out she dropped into the Twilight Zone, the stations were not fueled, and as a result I've lost everything within. This included multiple mining barges and capitals, millions of m3 in ore, loot from various sites, event items, everything. It doesn't matter to me if I have assets elsewhere, this was stuff I personally worked hard to build and just like that it's gone because CCP decreed that unless you shelled out bookoos of isk for their stupid 'quantum cores'-which I did- a structure goes abandoned and everything is lost without going into safety. Thank you CCP for cementing my decision. They actually said something to the effect of 'once those who quit see what is coming with the update they'll come back". Um, no, they won't. Because there are people who've played the game far longer than I have and have invested far more that quit much earlier than I did and never came back. Congratulations CCP you lost a paying customer of over 6 years and you've actually stated you don't care.

I Can't think of a single game I tried to like more than EVE Online. I Tried so, so hard and yet, I can't. I just can't. I Even went as far as subscribing Omega for 1 month.

You see, on paper EVE is my perfect game. It really is.
However, I unfortunately suffer from a sever lack of time to play video games due to several personal reasons that I believe are not relevant to this review. And due to this, I considered my time invested into EVE precious.
One cannot simply play this game casually: It simply can't happen. You try to mine in high sec (supposedly safe) you get destroyed by someone multiboxing. There goes your haul. There goes your ship.
You try explorations in low/null sec: You can't even make it there because of gate-camping. There goes another ship, there goes another couple of days (for me, of course) of work.
It literally feels like there is no other content in this game other than PVP.

I Literally see no other option for a new player other than joining a strong(ish) faction and play under their protection / do whatever they are doing. Unfortunately, I just like to play a bit more "solo" and, like I mention, a bit more casually.

Exposing these issues to the community labels you as a "Carebear" and they quickly invite you to "leave their game" and "go back to Black desert". This community is some of the most deplorable ones I have ever seen.


I Tried, I really did.

I tried. I really did. I tried on multiple occasions over the course of many years. And this time, I got very close- I got the most involved with the game than I had ever been. I learned more. I cared about the well-being of my corporation and the friends I had made in this game. I honestly thought I’d be playing for many, many more years. I had even gotten my wife into the game!

But let me tell you- if you’ve heard all the amazing stories of what this game could be: the epic wars, battles involving hundreds of players, millions of ISK lost in betrayals: those days are long gone. Much as people will say that we were born too late to explore the Earth, and too early to explore Space, we are all too late to explore the peak of what Eve: Online was. And maybe we’re still too early to experience what Eve: Online could one day be.

All that’s left, then, is the core gameplay. And the bad news: the core gameplay is dreadfully boring. And as I and all the friends I had made slowly started to realize this (including, eventually, our CEO), we started dropping out of the game one by one. We all had said our goodbyes to ship-spinning, staring at our screens, waiting in Discord for anything to happen, mind-numbing mission grinding, and mobile-game levels of predatory monetization. Darn.

But what do I mean when I say the gameplay is boring?

Well, let’s take traveling, for example. Traveling from one location in the galaxy to another takes a lot of time. To be honest, I think is a super cool aspect of the game and it’s part of what makes it so grand, and it facilitates the economy since items will have different prices in different parts of the galaxy. However, we’ve all played games where it can take a while to travel from one part of the map to another. In a game like Red Dead Redemption, for example, it’s a relaxing and zen experience just jumping on your horse and riding to a new location. There’s stuff to do on the way, and you’re engaged most of the time. Maybe a better example would be a game like American Truck Simulator (which is comparable seeing as how both games have you hauling stuff a great deal). In ATS, they managed to make simple traveling from one location to another a great time. And this makes sense since this is going to be a LOT of what you’ll be doing.

In Eve: Online, you right-click from gate to gate and wait as you watch your ship go through its warp animations. It is mind-numbing, tedious, and it will take out a sizeable amount of your time. The only decisions you’ll ever make are whether to jump through a gate because you think it might be getting camped, which only means your trip is going to take longer. Some of these trips could take up to half an hour at a time. The game also gives you the option to auto-pilot, so you don’t have to deal with the tedium that is clicking on a menu every 15-30 seconds. But, of course, the cost of this is that your trip will take CONSIDERABLY more time (which makes no sense… why would a computer be less accurate with its warps than a person)?

Waiting and staring at your screen is this game’s core mechanic. Let’s look at another example: mining. Again, think about any game where you enjoyed mining. Mining can be a pleasant and relaxing experience all on its own. In Eve: Online, you right-click on a rock and just… wait. Again. For ages. No option even for a more actively engaging version of mining. Just stare at a pretty laser or gas cloud harvester for 30 minutes until you fill up, dock, drop off your rocks and repeat.

At least mining manages to be the perfect activity to do if you want to play a game passively while you do something like homework… except, no. Because of course, this is Eve, and you can still get ganked at any time. If you’re in high sec, this is far less likely, but there are players whose very existence is dedicated to destroying AFK miners. And if you’re trying to mine somewhere else such as lowsec, nullsec, or a wormhole… well then you don’t even get to enjoy doing homework because you’re there spamming the directional scanner the whole time to make sure you won’t get randomly attacked.

I want to make it clear that I’m not criticizing the open PVP of this game. That part is brilliant, and I’ll always love it. What I’m criticizing is just how boring doing some of the most basic stuff in this game can be: stuff that you’ll likely be doing a lot of.

This review is going to go on forever if I go this deep into everything wrong with Eve: Online, so I’m just going to mention a few more things:

- Joining corporations in this game sucks. Thanks to the early exploits and betrayals of players from a bygone age, trying to join a fun corporation can feel like applying for a real-life job. And many of these corporations still use old annoying third-party software like Mumble or Teamspeak, along with their own personal websites.

- The PvE missions in this game are extremely grindy and very boring. The industry missions literally just have you hauling stuff or mining stuff for NPCs, and we’ve already discussed how mind-numbing those activities can be. But even the combat missions were extremely dull. A friend and I tried to grind reputation so we could do any Epic Arc in null sec, and by the time we finally got the reputation we needed, we were ready to smack our heads into our computer screens just to feel something again. It might have helped if we could properly “party up” in the missions. We were doing them together, but we still had our own separate missions and the rewards had to be split 50/50 which means doing them together didn’t make the missions go any faster and didn’t make them any more excited because the missions don’t scale with the number of players.

- The experience in this game is gained in real-time, even when you’re offline. I always thought this was a cool mechanic, but it does mean you’re going to feel useless as a new player for a LONG time. So much of the early game will be focused on all the many things you can’t do. Naturally, there is a solution to this, in a game that already costs $20 a month for a premium subscription: buy more skill points to speed up your development. This makes the game feel like a straight-up mobile experience that you’re paying a premium for to play in the first place.

I’m getting tired of writing, so I’m just going to list a couple of things I still like about Eve: Online. Exploration is still fun, but it’s very lonely. I wish other activities had as much effort put effort into them as the scanning, but even that does begin to feel samey and boring after a while. I also still love the core ideas of Eve: Online- the completely open and free trade/economy, and the open PVP. Also, the game’s pretty, which is impressive given how old it is now.

People will often say that Eve: Online is only as fun as you make it. Well, I tried. I went out looking for more exciting things to do beyond mining and hauling. I tried PvE, PvP, Epic Arcs, and more. And no matter what the activity, they all gave me a very similar feeling: that is, I always felt like I was just waiting around for something more interesting to happen, and maybe sometime cooler could happen if I only had more skill points. And even though there were some fun and exciting moments, they weren’t even close to worth the amount of time and boredom I had endured to reach them.

I honestly don’t believe any number of updates could make Eve: Online a fun game nowadays. This game needs a fundamental rework of many of its core mechanics. What we need is the future that we are here too early to explore, Eve: Online 2, which could maybe take notes from other games that have managed to make traveling in spaceships fun, mining space rocks fun, and doing PvE missions with your friend’s fun, and so on. Until then, Eve: Online will remain an excellent MMO, but a mediocre game.

(Written during Version 21.02)

Writing this after spending 2000+ hr (or more if you count Serenity) on this game.

I waited until the fanfest(EVE-con) to post this review because I still give them the benefit of the doubt, and they managed to drop the ball at fanfest by announcing literary nothing.

TLDR: I cannot recommend this game at this point. Throughout the years, the game devs(CCP studio) nerfed almost all of the ingame activities, to the point that it is not fun to play this game anymore. On top of that, in May 2022, they will be jacking up the subscription price to 19.99 USD per month, making this niche game THE MOST expensive MMORPG on the market.
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Just some recent changes made to this game:
CCP nerfed the cash you get from killing NPCs. Now you have to work even harder if you wanna buy gametime using in-game cash. (Better pay up ♥♥♥♥♥)

CCP nerfed capital ships that constantly showed up in EVE trailers, by slashing capital HP and jacking up capital production costs. Right now, most people keep these flagships docked and never fly them anymore -- after years of training and hard work in acquiring one of them.

CCP nerfed mining. Now instead of getting 100% of the ore, part of it is going to waste. Better spend real cash to buy skill injectors to train new skills to combat this new problem.

CCP nerfed industry and production by adding a lot of extra components, making one-man production nearly impossible now. (Mind you, a one-man production in this game means at least 5+ accounts in premium status, that is like 100 USD a month)

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On top of these recent blunders, the game still suffers from legacy problems like:

It is almost impossible to find a good fight.
Because CCP encourages mutiboxing, every guy you encounter has an alt and a half, giving you a disadvantage. The only way to combat this is to pay CCP money and have an alt yourself.
You spend most of your time waiting for something to happen, which is almost unheard of in today's world with games that feature quick matchmaking. In other words, NOT FUN! And even without the mutiboxing shenanigans, it is still very hard to find a fight.

What about those ePiC battles CCP always boast about on their web page? Yeah, those battles are slowed down to 10% of the normal time because CCP's server still cannot handle thousands of players battling at once. This means a battle that should cost you 1 hr will now cost you 10 hrs, better divorce your wife and play EVE on a toilet. In other words, NOT FUN either!

EVE's Elitism and toxicity, contributing to low new player retention rate.
EVE's narrative is long controlled by a small yet loud group of individuals who spend 20,000+ hrs and have mastered the game. They will use their knowledge to dunk you in-game, whether it is PVP, PVE, or playing with the market.
They are very active in forums/Reddit and ingame. They suppress lesser experienced players from voicing their opinions as they mock you for "not good enough" whenever you say something they deemed too casual.
Oh, you are launching the game via Steam? Filthy casual.
Oh, you ONLY have 2000 hrs in EVE? Filthy casual.
Oh, I caught you in a PVE ship with my blinged-up PVP ship and 10+ years of experience? Get gud, casual.
What's that? You are an industry/mining player? You are a worthless carebear. I am an eLiTe PvPer, I blow stuff up.

What's more, CCP is actively exploiting the low new player retention rate by selling them rental programs(Expert System), where they can pay real money to have enough skill points to fly cool ships, but only for a few days. Which fits perfectly to the average new player life cycle -- a few fking days. No wonder this game is dying.

At this stage, most of the player who is quitting the game are hybrid players. They don't have a warchest from 10+ years of playing to combat the rising cost, they don't devote 100% of their time to PVP, and they are affected by the recent changes.
The eLiTes will not miss their last opportunity to mock the leaving players:
"You whin too much, stop whining." "You quit the game because you are not good enough." "Plz go, can I have your stuff?"
Hope y'all elites like the empty universe after the silent majority exit the game. Sorry I winned EVE with only 2k hours.

Fly Safe!

NEW PLAYERS SHOULD READ THIS.

Eve is a wonderfully made game, and has amazing visuals. Any Sci-Fi fan will likely have a nerdgasm when they start playing. There is a huge list of ships and attachments, which allow customization for any role you want to play. Plenty of battle, whether it be PvP or PvE. Huge player economy and many corporations, which are the same as guilds or factions.

SO THE PART YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THIS:
Eve has an enormous learning curve. It's even been referred to as a learning CLIFF in game. The game is free to play, but you can purchase Omega time, which unlocks all of the skills, and doubles your training speed. Your skills have to be purchased, then trained. No way to grind skills faster, unless you spend money (ISK as it's referred to in-game) on skill injectors. There are also limited time events that give you small amounts of skill points, but other than that, skills take a set amount of time to train. The time to train is listed by the skill, but most of the better ships can take months to learn, and longer for the corresponding skills needed for their equipment. There is no protection for new players. You can get attacked in any system, unless you are docked in a station. You could spend hours grinding money for a new ship, and immediately get blown up when jumping to a new system. Remember, the game has been going for more than a decade, so there are players and Corporations in-game that have amasses a staggering amount of top tier ships, equipment, and currency. As a new player, you will likely lose most ships that you buy from other players attacking you. There is also a risk of getting attacked by NPC's, and being a new player means you have no idea how to distinguish easy opponents from deadly ones. There are a few players in game who devote a lot of time towards coaching and helping rookie players. But i've found that there is also a large number of negative players. Scamming players is allowed, so the number of scams and scammers outweigh helpful players. Voicing your frustrations will likely get you laughed at, or talked down to. So enter this game knowing that the odds are against you. This game is incredibly fun, but the community and learning curve are the only things stopping this game from being a world class game. If you want help in the game, speak to Mike Azariah or Corporal Phillip. there are a few more helpful players, but go in knowing that the world, or dare i say GALAXY, are against you.

EVE was once a legendary game. I was young when the Goons vs BoB war was raging. News articles and entire books have been written about it from observations of its player-driven economy, wars, and industry.

That was the game that was. That is not the game that is now.

CCP has no idea how to design a game anymore. They now only know three things:
1. How to nerf
2. How to monetize
3. How to ignore the feedback of the elected player representative council.

Do you like industry and mining? CCP will nerf it to the ground and then try to sell you badly-kitted mining ships. They pull it back, but they poorly hide their intent to do it again.

Do you like PVE? Virtually worthless outside of nullsec. Have fun being fodder for suicide gankers when they get bored from all the miners leaving since their chosen career has been nerfed to oblivion.

Do you like PVP? That's all the game has to offer in mainly three flavors - wormhole fleets, ganking, and big bloc alliances. Except CCP keeps nerfing industry and income, so eventually you might find yourself starved for cash or for powerful late-game ships.

Lo and behold your corporate overlords will descend from on high and offer you the shiny new billion-ty plex pack complete with supercarrier (amateurly fit of course because the developers obviously don't play their own game).

Don't believe me? Keep watching. I'll happily eat my words if CCP manages to clean up their act and start designing a game again rather than a gatcha game with pewpew spaceships tacked on.

Don't waste your time. The developers don't respect it.

Many years ago I would have recommended this game, but not anymore. Solo play, including mining which used to be a way to chill out by popping rocks and earning ISK at the same time is ancient history. It is now impossible to play the game without the support of others. They have put so much emphasis on corp and group game play that people like me who like to take things slow and go our own way have been totally pushed out. Also there is a VERY heavy emphasis on micro transactions which I could tolerate, but hiking the price as well as push extras is just greed,

If you're willing to group up with people that take this game WAY to seriously, and spend real money to get anywhere you'll be fine, but it's not for casual gamers anymore.

I've been playing EVE Online on-and-off since 2013, ever since Pearl Abyss acquired CCP Games: this game has gone downhill. The content has stagnated, the game continues to become more and more pay-to-win and the subscription cost has gone up for no other reason than to milk you of your money and to satisfy Pearl Abyss shareholders. I can't recommend this game in good faith anymore.