EVE General Discussion

When I started with eve some years ago, eve was almost perfect, lot's of clear sky, an extremely helpful community, and this wild mix of things you could do according to your mood.
Going into low and 0.0 if you need some adrenalin to kick in, missions if you had to fill up an hour of free time, mining if you wanted to do something in the middle of something else.
It was this heritage from elite that got me. If I look at eve now, the picture becomes quite sad. Technically eve get's better and better. The visuals are still stunning, and a lot of the stuff that was annoying in the past have been dealt with. Than eve lost something important to me. Do you remember this video the butterfly effect? “A group of miners calling for help in local ...”. Well truth is, the miners would be probably ganked before they even finished typing, not mentioning flying there, locking the enemies … 0.0 has become so small that you can not dream of getting a piece of that pie, unless you play but monkey for a big alliance. WH space is quite ok at the moment, but looking at the decisions before I am sure that they will find a way to nerve them too. The forums are filled with people as helpful as rattlesnakes and with about the same attitude or IQ, and if I check the posts in my alliance I see that they have been robbed the 3rd time now, by trusted long time members. The community degraded and it seems that the developers at CCP share their vision of death match unlimited. Not that death match unlimited has to be a bad game, but it will not be the game I dedicate a lot of my time, and I guess it would be WOT in this case for me.
From what I see future eve will be played only by full time eve professionals, gankers and masochists. Since none of that apply to me, guess I will let my subscription run out. I am sure eve will not die, and I applaud the CCP game designers that stick to their vision of the game to a point, that it even risks their jobs (or at least the jobs of some more colleagues).
So good luck to all who decide to stay. Go down fighting. Hope that I will find reason again to revisit eve.

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Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. I believe it's firmly related to the degratation of internet 'culture' too - when I started playing MMOs a decade ago, most of the people I encountered were friendly, helpful and it really felt like the players were in a sense bonded with a common interest (the game we were playing).

Nowadays the majority of online gamers are just out there for themselves and their e-peen, with their priorities on getting the best loot and the most kills on a killboard regardless of the method, very much like the cheating FPS kiddies that ruin everyone else's game with their hacks just so they get a ridiculously high K/D ratio.

EVE attracts these kinds of people because they've heard that activities that are anathema to almost every other game are not only valid in EVE, but encouraged. This also drives out the people who find these activities tasteless and repulsive. So we're left with the sewer of the gaming public in EVE, okay there are still some decent people playing but they are becoming an endangered species.

The solution? No idea. I hope EVE lasts a long time, since it tends to keep a lot of the mouthbreathers out of other games.

See you on WOT battlefield. What Tier are you at now OP?

Roisin is right. Its a really bad trend that has been going on now for you for over half a decade now. I started playing mmos in 99 with Everquest, The community has completely changed since then, not just mmos but the internet in general. The net has become one giant troll fest filled with the same ass hats who used to make fun of you being on the internet. the massive amount of garbage people try to sell you doesn't help either. Its sad to say but its only natural for garbage to spill into the mmo genre. Its the same across all mmos now. EVE is no different.

Unfortunately this is what the internet has changed into.

People were whining about the same stuff in 2007

sounds like we already did

And two little vertical moustaches.

Do you live under the delusion that anyone here actually cares about what you read or didn't read? You're not that interesting. Get over yourself.

OP: Yes, the attitude in the forums are sickening, but I guarantee this isn't equivalent to all gamer-communities. I am a long-term player of Entropia Universe, and the community on their forums, as well as in-game, is touching close to humanity as it should be.

EVE-players have a sickening, teenage attitude because this is what promotes the game: "it's harsh, cold, blah-blah-blah," so just because I can I have given money to newbies in chat to prove them wrong, because they do make me sick, these severely obese creatures whom calls themselves "tough" and "cold".

Oh common, we all know that the only people here who don't want any risk are the suicide gankers, imagine if there where actual repercussion for such acts, unthinkable!