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Keat0n
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-12-11 04:16:54 UTC
What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response? Big smile
Kaylyis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-12-11 04:27:52 UTC
Keat0n wrote:
What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response? Big smile



I tell them it's something to do if you're either a masochist or have the patience of a saint. I don't recommend EVE to my friends. None of them have my tolerance for insane timesinks where you cannot achieve anything cool without paying X amount in subscription money first.

Before you say it's a lie, tell me how many people succeed in fleet actions, PvP or incursions without elite core and gunnery skill proficiencies as well as the ship skills, and without having to be carried by the people who DO have this.

Or being lucky enough to have eighty enraged buddies who haven't trained past frigates to rabidly swarm people and things which annoy them.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#3 - 2011-12-11 05:08:48 UTC
EvE is a very hard game to describe.

I just tell them it's like being in a really cool science fiction novel that is still being written.



Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Bane Loppknow
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-12-11 05:15:39 UTC
I tell them it's to do whatever I want, in space.
Nikodiemus
Ganja Clade
Shadow Cartel
#5 - 2011-12-11 05:17:21 UTC
I tell them I just finished beating off and this is the second most useless thing I can find to pass the time.
Kordoc
Death Metal Rooster
#6 - 2011-12-11 06:17:25 UTC
I tell them its the only game that have real consequences.
I ask them if when they shoot a lvl50 nub in modern warfare that same nub lost any perks and the gun they earned, would it be cooler game. They say yes, but most of my friends don't like sci-fi or fantasy. Or to lose their e-stuff either. Wimps.
Nyio
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-12-11 06:19:05 UTC
"This is too complicated for you to grasp, even if I should take the time to try explain."

Golem • CCP In-Game Event 2011.11.23 • Nyio • Grenade?
Riley Moore
Sentinum Research
#8 - 2011-12-11 07:31:20 UTC


"I like space"

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#9 - 2011-12-11 07:50:39 UTC
I tell people, "it's like EXCEL spreadsheets but with spaceship graphics and people who want to destroy your spreadsheet as thoroughly as possible."

How did you Veterans start?
Zarutha
The Night Crew
#10 - 2011-12-11 08:00:46 UTC
I keep the door to my office locked when playing eve, that way I can dodge any questions.

When people ask what games I play, I tell them Modern Duty or Call of Warfare, something they have heard of, then quickly change the subject.
Keat0n
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2011-12-11 08:20:17 UTC
Zarutha wrote:
I keep the door to my office locked when playing eve, that way I can dodge any questions.

When people ask what games I play, I tell them Modern Duty or Call of Warfare, something they have heard of, then quickly change the subject.



My favorite is Call of Warfare: The Empire Strikes Back
Dbars Grinding
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#12 - 2011-12-11 08:35:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Dbars Grinding
People dont see me. But i tell my friends that id rather play EVE than raid the new deathwing raid and they laugh at me. I then tell them they are missing out on one of the only true MMO.

I have more space likes than you. 
Handsome Hussein
#13 - 2011-12-11 09:02:42 UTC
I told my brother-in-law, who is a bigger gamer than I, that it's a libertarian paradise in space. Very few rules, free market, player-created content, pure PvP (with very few exceptions). It's a time-waster of epic proportions, but you need to be prepared to nut up. It's a griefer's paradise, a gaming experiment, science fiction in its purest form.

When you boil it down, though, it's just spaceships. And that's what makes it so ******* awesome.

Leaves only the fresh scent of pine.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2011-12-11 09:48:44 UTC

It's the only real MMORPG out there.
Gerrick Palivorn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#15 - 2011-12-11 09:56:00 UTC
I tell them its a game of infinite possabilities and variety since practically nothing in the game is static an almost everything is competition on some levels. Actions have real recourse and if you screw up, there is no respawn with your epic gear readily at hand.

They generally turn and run at that last part, but a few are intrigued and have signed up.

MMOs come and go, but Eve remains.  -Garresh-
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#16 - 2011-12-11 09:57:28 UTC
I tell people I owe the Mafia alot of money and this is what I need to do or they will break my knee caps.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#17 - 2011-12-11 09:59:58 UTC
Its a terrible internet spaceship game made by vikings in a land of ice and fire that will suck you into a dark oblivion of hate and rage.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#18 - 2011-12-11 10:49:07 UTC
I tell them it's about internet spaceships and no you can't have a go.
Klandi
Consortium of stella Technologies
#19 - 2011-12-11 10:56:44 UTC
A good friend (having got caught playing Eve at work) told his superior Eve was a graphical front-end for a SQL DB checking program for both PEN testing and integrity, consequently it had to run at least twice a week.

I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking
Vicker Lahn'se
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2011-12-11 11:04:55 UTC
Keat0n wrote:
What do you tell people when they see you playing EVE, and they ask what its about? I've run into this constantly where i'll be playing and i'll have people ask me "well what's the point? what are you doing right now? why?" I usually tell them its too complicated for me to explain or that the point is just to blow stuff up. Anyone else come up with a different, wittier response? Big smile


I tell them that it's complicated and open ended. Half the fun is learning how the complicated mechanics work. The other half is being able to choose between a wide variety of careers, ranging from running factories to hunting down other players.

I also add the disclaimer that it's pretty boring for an outsider to watch, much like how it would be to watch someone else read a science fiction novel.
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