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Why do you play EvE Online? What Is Your Drive?
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Conrad Makbure
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#41 - 2012-07-30 21:50:55 UTC
1) Sci-Fi genre
2) No other game to really choose from like it
3) Game Mechanics, it actaully feels like commanding a ship (although these ships having crew is pointless, even if it is part of the lore)
4) More tactical-like environment when in combat
Hannibal Vexor
Lumbar Puncture
#42 - 2012-07-30 22:24:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Hannibal Vexor
0wl wrote:
There's no viable alternative.


**** **** wanker knobhead
Lilianna Star
Vagrant Empress
#43 - 2012-07-30 22:25:19 UTC
Social aspect. So that I can meet people, talk with them, become friends and become a cog in their machine.
Taranius De Consolville
Doomheim
#44 - 2012-07-30 22:25:49 UTC
Some really good answers here. Please keep it up, i have a genuine in why people play this game

oh and make sure u liek the post if u reply
Ludi Burek
The Player Haters Corp
#45 - 2012-07-30 22:32:44 UTC
Fantasy genre makes me vomit
There is no viable alternative
Competition with others and relative harshness

As for gameplay interests, trading is the only one that endures. Over the years in addition to trading I've had phases of ultra safe carebearing, 0.0 solo or 2-3 people roaming, high sec leet peeveepee (with mandatory links and logistics), pirating, ganking, exploration. I guess that speaks volumes for the open endedness of the game which makes it great.
Jett0
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#46 - 2012-07-30 22:56:40 UTC
It's the only MMO I've seen that scales well with how much time you have.

Long weekend? Run missions/sites, go explore, start a war
No time? Industrial projects, queue a lvl 5

Occasionally plays sober
Ian The Bane
13th Bomber Squadron
#47 - 2012-07-30 23:05:48 UTC
Self Abuse
Six Under
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2012-07-30 23:12:38 UTC
Because diablo 3 sucks.
Demolishar
United Aggression
#49 - 2012-07-30 23:15:42 UTC
Oh yeah, forgot to mention it's free to play.
Omega Sunset
Black.Omega
#50 - 2012-07-31 01:46:14 UTC
Taranius De Consolville wrote:
What Is Your Drive?

MWD in a cloaky, mostly.
The rest I attribute to in not being another dumbed-down f2p progressive clone themepark with a broken economy. That provides no power for my MWD, after all.

—Ω—
Lyskal Oskold
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#51 - 2012-07-31 02:40:24 UTC
why do you play EvE Online?
What drives you to log on everyday?
What is your force behind your impulses on this game?
Why this game over so many MMO's?

Because it is immersive and I enjoy it.
The chance to hunt down and shoot some Amarr.
The thrill of leaping on your prey and removing their ability to escape. Fighting them to the death.
Actual loss. Actual movement of battle lines and boundaries. The ability for things to be destroyed immediately and permanently.

It's ironic. I started out as a carebear miner.

"Love is just a chemical, no matter the origin. We give it meaning by choice." - Eleanor Lamb
Soundwave Plays Diablo
Doomheim
#52 - 2012-07-31 04:13:34 UTC
Ginger Barbarella wrote:
Well, TODAY, my drive is to laugh at all the ganker tears over the Barge changes!! P


That's deplorable.

I play for so many reasons...

Its free. I added up my gametime on all accounts since I started, several thousand dollars worth.

So much to do. I laugh when I see the "I've done it all", "Eve is too small", etc threads.

Covert OPS. I love that ****. The one time I did get bored, CovOps got me interested again.

The economy is amazing.

Soundwaves vision of the game is amazing.

CCP sreegs is my hero.

(not being sarcastic about those either).

Dust being integrated into Eve is nothing short of incredible. I always thought there should be an MMO where a space game was the flagship product, but the planets were the scenario for other MMO's. I.E. WoW on one planet, need for speed on another, etc etc.

Also, Wspace is safest space.
Omega Sunset
Black.Omega
#53 - 2012-07-31 06:18:56 UTC
Soundwave Plays Diablo wrote:


Dust being integrated into Eve is nothing short of incredible. I always thought there should be an MMO where a space game was the flagship product, but the planets were the scenario for other MMO's. I.E. WoW on one planet, need for speed on another, etc etc.


Oh and that reminds me... I mean EVE has a long record of "what's coming" excitement. Well, carpet bombing the console gamers into dust particles, it is a quite thrilling prospect! Service to the community :)

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classified data
Doomheim
#54 - 2012-07-31 06:51:12 UTC
my whole family was killed by astronauts. so now i train spaceships for the day of vengeance
Taranius De Consolville
Doomheim
#55 - 2012-07-31 06:53:00 UTC
Six Under wrote:
Because diablo 3 sucks.


Lets try not to derail the thread :)
hedge betts Shiyurida
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#56 - 2012-07-31 07:02:15 UTC
flakeys wrote:
Married , kids , what else can i do besides shoot myself ?



Nail on the head. The alternative is to sit with the wife and loose brain cells looking at teen Mon or whatever shite she has on.

Pog mo thoin

Velarra
#57 - 2012-07-31 07:04:29 UTC
It's a lot like gardening.
Luis Graca
#58 - 2012-07-31 07:09:05 UTC
I don't know why i play and sometimes i find myself often asking my self "why are you still playing this game?" What?
lanyaie
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#59 - 2012-07-31 07:09:56 UTC
Tears

Spaceprincess

People who put passwords on char bazaar Eveboards are the worst.
Taranius De Consolville
Doomheim
#60 - 2012-07-31 07:10:38 UTC
Luis Graca wrote:
I don't know why i play and sometimes i find myself often asking my self "why are you still playing this game?" What?


This has happened to me on occasion. Let me ask you another question, why do you think u actually play?