Eve Online Explained in Five Minutes! 

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Eve: The game played by sociopathic accountants.

Eve Online - Keeping sociopaths off the streets since 2003.

I heard this about Eve a while back: "Eve is like being a small child walking through a park at night filled with child molesters." After having played it for a while, I find this description highly accurate.

Plot twist: it's all real and we are controlling ships in space.

Aim of the game: To become the 1% by any means necessary.

Eve Online is one of the few games that has a canonical explanation to respawning that also makes sense

Heres my quote. "EVE Online is a game where you feel like trying to control a space ship in real life for the first time not knowing a shit about each button."

I've been playing on and off for 14 years and I still don't know what the hell I'm doing lol

One of the best accurate descriptions, and I quote: "Eve Online - Fitting more shit into your HUD since ’03. "

I played Eve for 7 years. Been part of very memorable things, like the first Great War, that lasted over a year. In the end, I stopped when I realised that pvp didn't pump me up with adrenaline anymore, and losing a ship only made me think about the logistics of buying and moving another.

5 minutes? Pffft, I can do one word! Capitalism.

Ugh..played for almost six years. Realized I had to stop when I found myself triple boxing to blitz through L4s. For a game, Eve has the potential to be horribly stressful, and a real obsession. I both miss it, and don't miss it.

Either you play EVE or you live, not both!

I'm a 45 yo grown up man, father of 3 beautiful kids with a leading job in the IT industry. i considered myself has a reasonable person from the top middle class average (considering my salary). EVE is the only game that make me cry... on 1 occasion, at my beginning (after 1 year of play). I didn't cry on others instances after but i remember my heart race like crazy as if i had a car accident. Don't judge me lol

I was genuinely depressed for a while when my Corp fell apart and disbanded. Years later when I sold everything and left. I had a nyx for several years and never lost it. Sold it off and they got it blown up a week later.

Was fun to play, but became like a second full time job.

pov: you got curious after one year of advertisement

This game looks incredibly overwhelming wtf

The fact that this huge game is coming to mobile with the same universe size and same server system is really amazing

I'm now 46 years old.. ive been playing this stupid game since I was 31.. this game has ruined all other games for me.. man I love it 8)

This is an excellent overview explanation! I just hit my 10 year anniversary in Eve and I'm still learning. If you like science fiction and MMOs, you will never find a better game.

I laughed when you played the screams in the background.

Pretty much sums up eve! Good video, well narrated.

I spend thousands of hours in eve from the age of 14 to 21. AMAZING game conceptually, but not worth the hours of your life that it requires.

really good explanation honestly, all most makes me want to jump back in.

One of the best descriptions made of a video game, is so nice, keep doing work like this

Thanks for making this video, was super helpful understanding some of the background. I just started playing and so far it's a huge learning curve for me, but fun. I figure I'll just take my time doing random stuff until I understand what I prefer doing and what kind of corporation I should join.

After watching this video, I feel like I still don't get it.

If interested in a small gang PvP corp check out Interstellar Booty Hunters [IBTY] or come chat in-game at the Booty Tiki Bar

I’ve been wanting to try this game out for awhile. Thanks for this little tutorial. It was very helpful

no other games have been even close to give me the adrenaline rush ive felt in this game. you know you have a special game, when you find your self in a situation where your hearth going like crazy, and you shaking so badly you barely can hit any of the buttons with your mouse. crazy difficult to learn, but allso highly rewarding, best game ive ever played for sure

Darn you Resurrected Starships. You got me to load up my Alpha Clone. Grumble grumble, this is fun, darn it, Eve has its hooks in me again. LOL

As a “Care Bear” I resent being called a Care Bear just because I prefer mining, feeding the economy, provide resources for ships for fighter jocks and essentially keep the universe alive! 😂😂😂

I'm interested in starting eve online today so i looked up a video and found this. This video helped me a lot to understand how the game is since all i have seen are ads about the game. Hope to see you in game sometime 😊😊

Great explanation of the game. Makes me feel to start playing again :D

You know something is wrong when theres so many 30 minute videos explaining a game

Having played for nearly a year, I'd say that summarizes it well. Nice job :) I will say to those who haven't played that a culture war is an extraordinarily gross understatement. The mind games are as intricate as real world politics and I love it. I am curious though, where's the audio of the screaming fc?

This game really intrigued and interested me. I mostly played regular RPGs being my favourite genre, but due to lack of proper resources growing up I missed out on MMORPGs that always fascinated me. Playing games like this growing up would have been such a fun and learning experience..

I honestly love hearing about EVE and find it's universe fascinating, both it's canonical lore an player created stories Actually playing it though requires a very certain mindset that I just don't have.

3 words describes EVE. Spreadsheets in space. Like literally. I played for 14 years and my PC documents is filled with spreadsheets I made for the game. Beautiful game. Market system was amazing. I never liked the non FPS style of flying though. There was no real exploration in the game. Sure there were lots of places you could go to, but you couldn't really interact with any of it other than asteroid belts. If you want exploration, play Elite Dangerous. Best space exploration game I've ever played(still play it). I did everything in EVE. Built ships, played the market, was part of several of the best pvp alliances and territorial alliances in the history of EVE(MC/BoB/NC./Pandemic, etc.), explored worm holes for a couple years. Ran an entire station infrastructure network for an alliance. I still have a logged off mothership that's been floating in Delve for about 3 years now. Some of the best gaming years of my life. The only thing I never accomplished was owning a titan. I was there the day the game went live...

I have been playing this since the beta on and off...I still think it is probably the best game ever made on any platform. There isn't anything else like it.

Didn't think that was possible! Well done! 51, 13 years and every engagement is as exciting as the first! EVE Forever

Just started watching your content because I wanted to give this game ago, now that I have I will be giving it a bash as soon as it's downloaded

This is the closest we'll ever get to ready player one's The Oasis

"Do you have a clear vision? He does!"

Thank you for your insights, liked your video a lot. I had difficulties to understand the reason, why it's such a successful game. Especially when I read news that ***** amount of time is eradicated in a (for me) silly personal war. But I am grasping now thanks your video. One instance is indeed gigantic. But as a dedicated ED player I think you have nothing so cool like our fuel rats / hull seals. Even if I never needed their support so far. Feel often like a small boy looking up to them.

I play UO. The description of this game reminds me in many ways of it. There must be a lot of former UO players playing Eve. I'd love to try it out :)

EVE: The griefer's paradise

...most unusual, as well as most accurate and well-explained description of what EVE is about, at its core. (most unusual for me in the meaning that most videos of this kind i've seen about eve were either at loss to explain, or focused on the mechanical features and didn't notice the actual core dynamics, didn't see forest for the trees (and shrubbery)... and this one is the first that ignores all of that crap and just describes the forest itself so well)

Thank you for a great video. To the point and Not Long Winded. I just started 3 days ago, wish I had started 4 months ago like I wanted. I’m Blown away by the Magnitude of this game, I knew it was big but OMG. It’s crazy. So Any Advice or Help you Have Would Be Great. Ty again

As a Minmatar, I completely agree with you. Good presentation of Eve Online.

Here's a little fun fact.. there are 5201 solar systems in EvE online 1090 highsec.. 817 lowsec... And 3294 nullsec which is 60% of solar systems in EvE .. only 16% of players live in nullsec and its divided up by just a little over 150 alliances.. 👍

I'm on day two and loving it so far. Trying to take it slow and not get overwhelmed.

Wow that actually sounds amazing. I'll probably try it out.

Best part of EvE is the community and by so much content generated by players in forms of tools, strategies, doctrines for ships and straight up guides, you can achieve many amazing objectives. The only downside is that the giant universe and sandbox posibilities makes it accessible only to those that understand the way your character progresses, the value of planning ahead and sticking to the plan.

You left out half of those thousand players are just alts

This is exactly what I dream of when it comes to the ultimate game. Too bad that I just know I don't have the time or patience for it.

I think you made a great attempt to explain this insanity fest in a short time. Subbed.

xXTivianXx from BOS. I am old school from Beta. I couldn't have said it any better!! Great video...very to the point! Good Luck Good Hunting!!!

“Mine astroids and watch youtube”, read my mind

I started EVE 6 months after launch in 2003 ... Been here ever since and I still don't understand half of it lol. It's unique. Have made some good friends through it ... I'll be here another 17 years hopefully :-)

EVE look awesome, I never played. But the more videos I watch of the game, I more see its a HUGE learning curve.

I’ve always been interested by multiplayer sandbox games and the endless possibilities that our universe provides, so this is probably the closest game to a perfect game in my opinion. However, looking through the videos related to Eve, I’m beginning to wonder if I really have the time and effort to develop and achieve my goals in this game. I’ve been a FPS player for quite a while and maybe I’m not ready for this kind of intensity yet. I think the future me will probably pick up this game and I hope he doesn’t regret it, because some dreams are meant to be dreams.

I've been playing for 14 years and I still don't understand it all. However, 14 years should say a lot.

"Mining and Manufacturing. Things that carebears do." :\

I cant help but think ,i've been a part of this ,some way some how. Being i've had vivid dreams ,visions and so on of being a highly skilled fighter pilot leading over many others ,with highly sought after skills. My name is ,or was Indigo Eagle. I had put in so much battle time and won and concurred so much I was able to retire. Just recently ,some have been trying to coax me out of my retirement due to my high level of expertise. Very -AMAZING? That I stumbled upon this ,what seems to be the mere origins of my very real visions and dreams for quit a while now.

I'll definitely be giving this a try. This reminds me a lot of Freelancer, minus game missions though.

never heard of this game, reminds me of battlestar galactica though :D might check it out!

"Eve Online Explained in Five Minutes!" - 6 min video :p

I am brand new, starting when i get ny PC running. Have already decided to give this game a go.

Nice video and effort. I do Invite you to rethink that "Sandbox" Definition, because if Sandbox means that there is no end to the game then ALL MMO's are Sandbox, even World of Warcraft, and that is simply not the case. The "Goes on forever" or "Perpetual Game" or "Open Ended Game" is a Characteristic of the MMO genre as a whole. EVE like all other MMO games is Open Ended. Sandbox on the other hand basically means that the Gameplay is Emergent and Free as opposed to pre-defined or "on rails" and imposed. Now, EVE distributes Resources (in an arbitrary manner) to specific Areas in order to impose a specific Gameplay, which also impacts Progression. If you are a Solo player lets say part of one of the NPC corporations you can only go so far, your progression will be hampered by the Resource Distribution and you will not be able to go forward unless you undertake some specific steps. And that is not Free or Sandboxy, it is rather pre-defined and imposed, there is no other choice than to stop progressing or stop playing. Then it also imposes time constraints on character progression through the Times skill system. No matter what the player does in terms of actions the skills take the pre-defined time to raise (with some variation based on implants etc) still it is not Free nor Sanboxy either. And therefore, I am not sure that EVE actually qualifies as a 100% Sandbox game really.

Just started playing. I just keep clicking anything that comes up in the screen. 😂

i can barely live my own life now i have another one curse you eve, for being so good

Nailed it. Well done

I just got an eve ad on this video. (10/10 youtube marketing)

Pvp in this game gets my adrenaline up like no other.

4:04 Who would quess.. "Growing alliances: Toilet paper" Welcome to 2020 and Covid-19...

Great video! BTW, what is this incredible music?

Please do not forget that according to lore, for example an Abbadon Amarr battleship has in addition to the capsuleer about 3000 souls on board which perish when the ship gets destroyed..

Fun fact the CCP supercomputer is one of the most powerful on earth rivaling the computational power and capacity of government built super computers.

I tried Eve once, i was so damn overwehlmed by even the tutorial that i didnt continue. Its fucking interesting gama but im not made for it

Super interesting and helpful ❤️👍

Ive been searching for this game since the first time i touched a computer… i have finally found it by pure chance… most certainly the beginning of a new era for me

I've also been playing for seven years (nearly non-stop), and still a sperm with a lot to learn.

Funny how the best and most relaxing time in EVE for me was being in the NPC corp you default into when leaving a corp and just chugging along in there. No wars, no BS, no forced PVP. Joining a corp can be fine if you find people who you get along with and have the same goals. Anything above that like an alliance is pretty much paying monthly for a game for people to tell you want to do all the time. Other than being able to fly a big ship anything out of high sec is pretty boring and supringly uneventful. To those who don't know going into low or null security space is usually system after system of empty space.

RESPECT for the video Ressurected Starships.3 points I wish to make.1)Are you in contact with the developer Uriel?if so can you tell him to design more Drifter ship designs?2 )What has happened with the proposed TV series on EVE online with Ridley Scott and Baltazar Kormakur?This has enourmous potential.Even bigger than Game of Thrones! and 3)I have seen a video or two comparing the ships from EVE with Star Wars.Any chance can anyone do a video comparing the Star Wars ships with Drifters,Triglavians, and various Pirate factions?I am sure Star Wars vs EVE 's Drifters and/or Trigs will be most interesting!

Loved all 9 years of playing Eve

You forgot the most valuable commodity in EVE is trust !! This why small corps can thrive in the right spots in New Eden. Then get war decked and extorted. And realize you have to give that moon base up because they are bigger or far more skilled than you It's still cool ! In that affair I got a free help me ticket but who knows if that would be honored. Either way I made enough to skill up characters buy ships even make money on plex. However it does take a while.

i played it a full 6 hours and it helped me forget about my abusive, manipulative, cokehead of a white girl exgirlfriend.

I got an Eve online ad on an Eve Online youtube video

Well done!

waiting for skills and the dumb repetition of rep quests killed my love for this game :/

if anyone wants to buy 3d printed eve online ships, pm me

i actually like watching videos on eve and what can be done rather than being involved in the actual game itself, it all sounds so amazing but videos and streams just look boring very interesting though, it really is

Not a gamer, randomly discovered eve online while searching for possible character names and wanted to know more...thanks for the informative video. One of the reasons I never got into video games as a kid was the fact that you had to follow a predefined path and levels and couldn't explore the game world. Eve online sounds like a game you could get lost in, if you even survive in the first place... I'm intrigued but also kind of terrified 😮

Ive played for the first time a few years ago. It was all fun until I learned about Plesk. Just dropping in a few bucks saves you hundreds of hours of time in game of trying to acquire ISK. So I did that then all my goals were null and void, no need to mine, explore, rat or gank. You have everything you want. So then the game is instantly boring to me. Dear Eve, make a new server and remove Plesk and have subscriptions just like WoW! Cheating makes the game boring.

Send me any amount of isk and i'll double it.

Eve...the best game one can play this time of lockdowns.

Thanks for the video, looks great. How easy is it for new players to get in the game and what level of commitment does it initially take for the game to be enjoyable?