EVE General Discussion

Until EVE has 11 million subscriptions, this is a silly argument.

Keep your thempark tomatoes out of my sandbox elephants!!

I'm no tomato-lover, though I can tolerate it in small doses in a sandwich or a salad.
Can't say I've ever eaten an elephant.

I wish I could like this post twice, once for the general sentiment and once for correct use of the word "kowtow".

I've been saying it for years here. Some people THINK they want easier and safer, but when you make things easier and safer, the same people get bored and leave lol.

I heard a joke about it once, and be warned, this is horribly politically incorrect lol:


So this guy is married to this wonderful woman. But he himself is a world class jerk. Lying, cheating, arrogant scum bag. Year after year she tells him he needs to be a better man or she'll leave. Years after year she doesn't. He's been that way since the 1st day she met him.

One day he gets into a horrendous car accident. Spends a month in the hospital and during this time he realizes what an Ass he's been, how he doesn't deserve his wife, and how he's going to do better once he gets home. And he does. He gets released from the hospital and showers his wife with love, attention and affection.

A week later he comes home from work to find that she's moved out. On the counter is a letter. He opens it and reads. It says "Dear Husband, the last week has been wonderful but I have to leave you now. Mainly because you are no longer the man I fell in love with.

She eventually finds love with a new guy, an unemployed alcoholic ex convict..........

Popularity =/= quality. Take Justin Bieber for example.

Eve players constantly trash WoW. WoW players for the most part don't know Eve exists. I left Eve to play ESO, which I am enjoying because I can play it for an hour or two at a time and have some fun. It doesn't have to be my life. (And I played Eve for five years and my main had 1500 player kills, so I'm not exactly a carebear.) The only time Eve comes up on the ESO forums is as a negative comparison.

Eve players are welcome to their sandbox. But this assumption that Eve is somehow the top of the heap and the ultimate gaming experience is pretty arrogant and rather ludicrous. Lots and lots of people like to play in theme parks and they don't harm anybody by doing so. Where does all this attitude come from? A game should be fun and rewarding as far as I'm concerned; I'm looking for amusement, not a way of life.

That's the reason I left Eve. I had to think about Eve almost the same way I thought about my job. That just got to be too much.

(And I'm back this month because I had to log on to help my old corp out by moving my stock to another player, to answer the obvious question of why I'm still here to post.)

Sometimes playing Eve is like having a hot girlfriend who's idea of a good time is hanging out at the public library studying the Dewey Decimal System.

Ban, no one ever said that Eve is "the top of the pile", as it never has been. It's always been a niche game, and it likely always will be.

Usually, when people dogpile the vitriol upon themepark games, is when people start suggesting themepark elements be implemented in Eve. There's nothing wrong with enjoying themeparks. There's something very wrong with suggesting that we build one in the middle of a warzone (Eve).

We merely suggest that people who want such things "go back to WoW" instead of trying to bring it with them.

It does, however, equal a gigantic pile of money. Put it this way: WoW can lose 50% of its subscribes, still have 5million or more left, and still have a giant pile of money coming in. If EVE lost 50%, it would lose the critical mass necessary to continue the sandbox. Hell, it's getting close to losing that critical mass now, and it HASNT lost 50%.