EVE Online Gold [Apr 23, 2003, 10:18 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Simon & Schuster Interactive sends news that EVE Online: The Second Genesis,
their MMO space game, has gone gold. They say the NDA on information about the
game has been officially dropped as of today, and the official launch is slated
for May 6 (sorry for messing up the date at first). They also send along a
batch of five new screenshots, and word that the game's producer, Mike
"Campion" Wallis will be in the EVE Online IRC Channel today at 5:00
PM EDT to discuss the announcement. The chat will be conducted on the server
stratics.frws.com in the channel #eve-online.
But, it pains me that everytime a game (not just Eve) is in the midst of a beta testing, the flamers have a field day on the boards.
EVE is not in the midst of beta. It's supposed to be in stores in 2 weeks. The client is gold. The client is still buggy as all hell. Therefore the release will be buggy as all hell. That's not even mentioning the problems on the server side. But what the hell, I'll mention those too. Node crashes at least once an hour. A very unbalanced and screwed up market system. Major balance problems with the ships. Skill system is still buggy. People are constantly dying and losing their ships and equipment because the servers lag out during combat. When the game resumes they find themselves floating in their pod, looking forward to several days of mining to buy a new ship. Yeah, this game really sounds like it's ready for release.
I've been in the beta for a couple months now. I reported bugs. I tried to figure out what exactly we're supposed to be able to do in this game. All in all, the goal seems to be to get a bunch of people together and seal off a system so you can mine the hell out of it. Alternatively you look for bugs in the market that let you make a couple hundred billion ISK in a couple days. I'll check back in 6 months. I don't mind beta testing, but when the devs already have a highly unreasonable release date, they don't have much interest in listening to the testers and making real improvements. I'm certainly not gonna pay 13 bucks a month to continue testing the game for them.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell (I think...)
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