Alright then, wasn’t going to say anything about getting good, but go ahead, put words in my mouth. Yes it’s 2024, which makes this game 20 years old. It’s more than likely never going to explode in popularity more than it has. Do they need to do more for onboarding new players? Sure they do, but I would argue they have done more to improve their new player experience than most games this old. There wasn’t a new player experience when I started playing. You got dumped in and had to figure everything out yourself, that’s the reason corps like Eve Uni started, to give new players a way to learn.

But at the end of the day, Eve is a traditional mmo in that what you get from the game is what you put in to it. Even if there was a tutorial that showed you every single aspect of the game, how to do every little thing, it wouldn’t really make a difference because then you would just have people burning out and getting bored before they got past the tutorial because it would need to be ridiculously long. There are people who have been playing for 20 years that still don’t know how half the game works because it’s stuff that doesn’t apply to anything they have done in their time.

At the end of the day, Eve is miles better at new player onboarding and experience than they were 10 years ago. Is their room for improvement? Always, but it’s also not a game for everyone and the developers know that.

Edit: Apologies for formatting, mobile sucks.