EVE General Discussion

voted for eve. all the other options are meh.

Since EVE is a sandbox game and we the players make the game what it is. Doesn't that mean we should get the award?
What exactly do we get if EVE wins?!

Also, I think that I'd be better if EVE won next years game of the year. Because this year wasn't that great for EVE. Unless you only mean the last 2 months maybe.

You will find this is an exceptionally common behavior in all the MMOs.

People get burned out / angry / nerfed / < place whatever deal breaker it made them quit > and take it personal, take it as an insult on the huge time and money they poured in the quitted MMO. Therefore they feel entitled to talk it out loud and show everyone else.

If you think about it, it's not far different from getting a terrible service / food at a restaurant and tell everyone you know. You sure will not "bother any more" yet you feel you have to tell others about it.

No it just means the people who don't do it are soulless and passionless automatons who have a hard time connecting emotionally to things. I joke ofcourse, but only halfhartedly. If I didn't give a ****, have connected emotionally with the game and people playing the game or want things to change for the better, I would just pack my things and move on when the fun stops. I do that all the time on some things and many games, but when you've invested yourself in to something and created those precious connections, it's hard to just cold-bloodedly cut them and move on without saying a word.

I think forming those connections is just much easier and more likely to occur when playing an MMO simply due to the nature of how MMOs and their communities work, so it's to be expected that people aren't just going to go out quietly when the hype and good times didn't materialize or start to turn sour after the initial new MMO smell wears off.

You realise this is the equivallent of going to your local pub, finding a bunch of guys watching football on TV and saying "hey guys I just got level 5 BattleCruiser in EVE Online, now I'm totally LEET.

So black and white with some people. Try being more nuanced.

I have invested a ton of time in this game and have build up good relationships with many mates. This is the MMO entertainment service to which I have chosen to subscribe. But would I recommend the EVE entertainment service to a friend? It would be a very qualified recommendation at-best.

The Crucible release made a big difference in how I view CCP and EVE -- positively for the most part. The swing towards customer-focus is most welcome.

Unfortunately, many of the key principals that have, in the past, screwed subscribers are still positions to harm the IP (Greyscale and Soundwave, in particular). And CCP's hubris in publicizing their participation in this award is telling. Will those same egos in the executive suite be able to maintain the humility and customer-focus through the release of DUST 514 and beyond?

I could never put forth EVE and CCP in a predominantly good light for 2011. There were so many egregious AND AVOIDABLE mistakes made that really ****** over (or pissed off) significant numbers of subscribers that no company treating paying customers in such a manner should be given a free trophy.

CCP needs a full year of Excellence (see what I did there Hilmar?) to earn a "of the year" award.

I felt this needed repeating, during the Incarna debacle while many of us where looking for other games I came to realise the popular mmo review sites are nothing more then "this new game is great buy it, that game is great buy it, our old friends at "random-mmo" are great buy it.

The point of this thread was "Do I vote for Eve or not? Replying to my post by commenting on whether I am "active" in Eve was never the issue. I guess you can't read plain Emglish, that seems stupid to me, so I guess we are even.

No, I'll just continue to spend wallet isk on Plex and rant on the forums for the satisfaction of getting under your skin. How's that work for ya?