I guess that I never really got hooked like you all did.
What I mostly remember from my time playing Eve is equally those very rare and extremely ephemeral moments that count for like 0,0001% of my play time. I can even count them on the fingers of my hand. They were great though. I agree that the very fact that the gameplay allows this is quite unique.
But also equally, or even more, the rest, the 99,9999% spent grinding and doing absolutely tedious shit to get to that uncertain graal above, and I loathed it. Was it not for RP, I would have left past one or two years of play, which I say, is already huge considering that on other MMOs I would have done the same past a few weeks.
And yeah, I remember perfectly well all that tedious grind all too much. And a lot of people I know, actually most people I got into trying the game, dropped out of that precise boredom.
So yeah, when I look at that video, which is a great video that effectively brings me back memories, I think that vid totally fails to address new players and actually talks very well to vets. That's endemic to a problem with CCP marketing and gameplay since day one actually. They cater to their paying subscribers, not to the potential new players. They are almost enslaved to their paying subscribers. Especially all the conservative ones and the vocal minorities.
Eh, not a fan.
I like the lore trailers, not the 'this is a fun vidya game' ones.
Same, and while this one sure brings me back in the old days, and actually speaks to me through things similar to what happened to me, I think I started to dislike their new trailers past the Dominion one, which was exactly like that. Or the "I was here lulz" one.
"Does it completely ignore the hours of boredom that will pass between the fights seen here?"
No. They showed a guy mining.
I think the trailers in general misrepresent EVE because they are somehow more cinematic than what we see in game.
Otherwise, they showed the Industrial/ PVE part of the game that usually gets ignored in trailers because it's not as interesting to see spreadsheets as it is to see pew pew.
If you look at the first eve trailers up until Revelations and Trinity, they were actual gameplay trailers. Ok, they were sure more focused on a chilling space atmosphere and very ethereal ambiants, but they actually showed the game as it was.
I have nothing against cinematic trailers as they started doing at TEA. They are awesome in their own way. I just think that a video game company that forgets to show gameplay trailers is doing it wrong (hell, the one I work for do the exact same mistake and it shows on every forum : "wtf ? The game i'm playing is nothing like shown in that trailer ! I want my money back !"). Blizzard, as usual, on that point, got it perfectly right : they always have high budget CGI trailers, and actual gameplay trailers.
