EVE General Discussion

This is my goodbye. 10 hours from now I will be recycled. I already recycled my alt. Three years of playing.

I quit because I started to ask myself: "To what end...is it only isk?"
Grind up LP for some goodies...to what end..
Explore wormholes..to what end...
shoot rocks...to what end...
Last night I suicide ganked a makinaw in Osmon in my nightmare...to what end?
Last night I got concorded in my Golem for attacking a Noctis in Osmon....to what end?

Turns out, ISK was the endgame for me due to a lack of EVE driven content. Nothing to really do but make isk by shooting red crosses..etc, Sure, the developers want human driven content but I'm a carebear with few hours to spend taking orders from a mouthbreathing neckbeard telling me what ship to fly and how. With no interest to develop spacehip friends, and the ability to buy as much PLEX anytime I wanted, I guess I fell out of the demographic for the game..so...bye.

Lastly, I left a shuttle with 5 PLEX in it and an omega virtue implant parked in deadspace in Jita as an easter egg. You'll have to scan it down if you want it. All my other stuff and isk will be melted down to the biowhatever.

RIP Corporation member babymuncho
From: CONCORD
Sent: 2012.08.06 14:59

The untimely death of fellow babymuncho Corp member babymuncho, on Monday, August 06, 2012, is a source of sorrow to me and their many friends in the corporation. Please accept our deepest sympathies in your bereavement. babymuncho was being reanimated at the cloning facility at the time when the fatal accident occurred.

babymuncho was a fine person and was admired by their fellow corporation members. You could trust them with almost anything. We will all miss them. I realize that words can do little to console you at a time like this, but I want you to know that we share your sorrow.

Sincerely, babymuncho Corp

You sure you just want to melt down that stuff?

EDIT: Sorry this game wasn't what you wanted it to be, though. It isn't quite an immersive, lore-driven universe.

Also, in before carebear haters.

Your stuff... May I has?... Please?

This is what happens when you never get beyond PVE. You collect isk, buy all the things, then ask "now what" and quit the game. This is exactly why CCP doesn't need to cater too much to the risk-averse beancounters.

edit: I'm in the midst of my own crisis regarding Eve, wondering whether I'll be playing it next month. But it's not because I don't see a point in what I do...it's because it's become increasingly hard to do it.

Keep breathing and eating... to what end??

My point being a sandbox is like life. The butterfly effect and all the player interactions make the end game. You don't know what's around the corner how can you there are so many player driven variables its not possible,

My end game is the PVP. I actually get off on my (alts) stats and the fact somewhere I've upset someone by destroying their assets.

Life and eve is what you make it... so make it a good one.

IBTL.

The epitaph on the mass grave of carebears everywhere: "What is there to do except make ISK?"
As much fun as I have driving carebears out of the game, we can't match CCP for effectiveness.

Say 'hi' to all your crying brethren in doomheim for me.

OP is going to hate him/herself when they come back a year later and don't have all that stuff.

If I decide to take a break, I'm just going to sink all my isk into PLEX and let the accounts lapse. That way if I come back I should be covered for inflation and have an easy way to resub. And if I never come back, CCP benefits from having a stack of PLEX tied up in a dead account.

Sorry to hear you lost the game.

Let me know when you find another game that is truly meaningful and not simply fun to play. I'll hold my breath now. Hurry.

"To what end?" is a very bad question to be asking yourself. It's just too darn depressing.

To what end to play EVE? To what end to play anything? It's all virtual anyway, and ten or twenty years down the line all these EVE "accomplishments" will be meaningless to you. Think back to your first character in your first MMO, or your first game. How important is that char to you today? Me personally, I couldn't care less even if you paid me.

Bottom line, why bother to do anything? In less than a hundred years I'll be dead. So will almost everyone I know. In about 5 billion years the sun will become a red giant, and 8 billion years or so from now will likely expand to engulf this planet, and anything on it. So why bother?

See what I mean? Depressing as hell!

So look at it the way I do. Do what is fun, here and now. Do you know what I did this weekend? Played Orcs Must Die 2. Deceptively simple but fun game. Happily killed a lot of free time this weekend playing it. And while ultimately it doesn't really matter - I still didn't kill all the orcs - it was fun while it lasted. I suggest you look at EVE the same way. It was fun. Now it's over. Move on.

Though personally I wouldn't go as far as biomass my character. You never know what will happen in future. Suppose CCP gets bought by EA and you can legally sell your character for real cash with an auction house like Blizzard made in DIablo 3? You might be throwing a hundred bucks or more out the window for no reason.

I'm no sucker for goodbye-posts, but this was actually quite good. No whining - just well argued reasons. Whether it serves any purpose posting personal reasons for leaving a game is another matter though.