EVE General Discussion

Sitting atop page two with a Sniper Rifle.

Waiting for Victims.

let me guess, you're mad

You come home to a very cute Kitten on your kitchen table. On the table next to it is a rusty boxcutter and a bag of kitty treats.

Are you a bad person?

Any kitten that makes it past my dogs to the kitchen table, I am not going to mess with

The nerfs have knock on effects that filter down to everyone, so everybody who likes to play the game properly has good cause to be unhappy when the bleating carebears get their way.

Happy holidays, everyone!

I hate all y'all

Hatred - are nourishing my body as my warrior soul comes to life! Hatred - are feeding my mind as I watch our people die! Hatred - is the essence of survival, we need it to save our kind! Hatred! Don’t be scared, hatred is our friend!

(c)

If you want a serious answer then it probably goes something like this:

Civilisation is a thin veneer. People live a façade. When you give them anonymity and no real concequences, they can then segregate themselves into groups to be as barbaric and cruel as their inner twisted little selves really want to be.
That or their lives suck and they want to take it out on others, lacking a real way to express themselves they come on here and disassociate themselves from their characters, getting a feeling of pleasure and relief after making someone else's life as miserable as they can.

Rage against the machine, dude! Your 1s and 0s they can change the world!

(How it accomplishes or fixes anything in their real lives I don't know but then they do tend to have a certain type of personality to begin with. )

lol...so how many exhumers did you lose during the ice interdiction?

In the hopes of contibuting something a bit more constructive to this thread...

The advice I would give to stop some of the hate is just to not take things for granted. I've seen this in so many games, where in the beginning, people are just happy to be playing the game, however it's been designed, with no expectations. (EVE on release was nowhere near as good as it is now, but what do you know, there's more complainers and haters now.)

Then, people start making impatient demands on the developer to implement new features.

Then, people start getting angry whenever anything is "changed" regardless whether it's an improvement or not.

Then you have a group of vocal, self-entitled elitists who believe a game developer owes them something.

Pretty soon you have a large part of your playerbase constantly complaining about how things should be, how they messed it up, how they've sold out, how things were better "back in my day..." etc.

Then it's only a matter of time before a game loses it's magic.

See World of Warcraft, and the cesspool of negativity it has become. Hell, even mentioning the game probably is going to make the the target of hate, from aforementioned elitists.

Diablo 3 is also getting flamed horrifically, because people have EXPECTATIONS, and aren't satisfied with anything less than a personally-tailored game, and feel entitled to this like they don't have a decision on whether to buy the game or not.

When I install a game that's been out since 2003 and take a look around, I'm amazed at how blind some of the vets are to the game they are playing, and amazed that they can find so many things to complain about in such a great game.

TL;DR Expectations screw things up.