I loved playing Eve, it was a visually stunning game and so expansive. But the $29/month price tag let my free trial subscription die at the end of 30 days.

They have now fixed the install file, so any installs post 4:00 GMT are safe. A typo in the installer caused the boot.ini file to be deleted from C: drive on XP and older MS OSes. It is a simple fix but has caused some people considerable frustration, especially those that are less than computer savvy.

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That's a pretty damn serious typo. Can't believe they wouldn't have tested this on a range of PCs before releasing.

Wow! The first time yet where it pays to have Shitsta!

Also, 29 fucking dollars a fucking month? What the fucking fuck!?!

Wow, hope someone got sent back to school over that one. $29 is a whole lot, I think I pay about $40 for 3 months of Warcraft. Which I dont play. Business isnt my strong point.

I'm not ok with games which require you to monthly pay, and I'm definitly against games that require you to BOTH pay the game itself AND pay a monthly subscription.

I was like looris last year, but then I completely sold out, and now I play World of Warcraft daily... and my self-esteem is nowhere to be seen. True story.

And whoever programmed this into the EVE installer needs to give some serious apologies. If I were his (or her, but let's be realistic) I'd personally launch a foot squarely in that persons balls.

You really had to be running a pretty non standard system to have this happen.

One it had to be windows XP SP 1, which came out in like 2001, and then beyond that you also had to have your windows partition set as something other than c. Which is a non standard configuration, and THEN you had to also have eve installed on the c drive instead of on your windows drive. Anyway this happened to maybe like 200 people, maybe. Yeah it sucks that they didn't catch it, but it's not surprising that they didn't.

From a first hand source, It happend to all kinds of people, not just people with 2 partitions. I don't know what happened but this is what happens when you let the quality developers burn out. (but i have no idea really) Also, Eve cost $39 for 3 months. Not $30 per month. see: http://www.evetimecode.com/index.php#30_day_code
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Eve is also notorious for random shutdowns of the universe. They shut down the servers for a whole day for what turned out to be one unauthorized user logged into SQL server.