Out of Pod Experience

Interesting read, but overall, what I believe is he simply failed to realize MMO´s no longer give HIM the satisfaction of yore, in the same venue of thinking when people realize a said hobby, want, movie type, book type, person type no longer "resonates" with them.

In short, he is OLDER, and more than a passing glance at the eternal diatribe of what makes MMO´s tick, he is more, in my eyes, realizing he is lonelier and more disconnected than before with his own social surroundings.

I can perhaps, and I dare to elaborate on a whim here, say that he is perhaps beginning the slow crawl into a middle age crisis.

Trying hardly to avoid falling into a straw man dissection of the original content creator, since I have no need to refute or solidify his findings I lean more towards his dissatisfaction of the way things are for most of us, fact is, I am very empathic to his plight.

But in a sense we must all stop for a moment in our current trains of thought to realize, that what twitter/facebook and most social mass media has brought upon us, is a very honest (sometimes too honest) view of the SEMPITERNAL DOUBT of existence most thinking beings endure throughout their lives.

It was someone that once said (and someone else please help me here, my google fu is weak atm) that Humans are the only beings we know in existence that tries hard to not be what they are.

This is simply a representation of that feeling.

Who knows if the era of the MMO has passed? Your guess is as good as mine, but Man? Perhaps is our era the one that is passing, or it is, simply, that men have such a limited view of themselves that when something falls out of tune with them, they embrace the only consolation they have left.

Declare it dead for everyone to see, so they can feel safe in the assumption they have made, and that it was correct.

How can Man be so naive or harbor such hubris to declare eras passing away or being born? Most men simply see the difference and place the boundary there, to their own chagrin or amusement, some people are just twisted.

If something I believe Man itself has simply reached a point , cyclical almost, in existence where he needs to reinvent himself somehow , pushed by internal or external forces or by none at all, to keep having an excuse to exist.

For recorded time and history as we know it, most men have simply decided arbitrarily things that change the course of the world, even ages beyond their lifespan, and we still move in circles. Slowly , deliberately in circles.

So perhaps, it is my humble opinion, that men indeed give death to their creations, just to satisfy their being in this reality, for those that give death are the ones that extend life by sheer extrapolation.

Such is our burden, such is our curse.

Well, we certainly had a peak between 2008/2009 ....

Which I doubt will return ....

So ...

is EVE ONLINE dying? du du dunnnnnnnn! (This is how all EVE IS DYING threads happen in the forums in my head)