Out of Pod Experience

Today I quit swtor, as I hadn't bothered to log in apart from the monthly incremental "content" they released which could completed in an hour. This got me wondering how many eve players played other mmo's?

What other games be it mmo's or single player games do fellow capsuleers play...and are they awaiting new releases?

For me it was swtor, elite dangerous and ofc Eve. No mans sky holds a certain interest for me

i play Spoons

CS:GO
Civ 5
Various Lego games on PS3

WoW of course! Oh don't pretend you big bad EVE guys don't play it as well

Despite the general jokes eve players make about WoW, I'm not afraid to admit I played WoW hardcore for a few years. Early WoW was fantastic and before everything eventually started to get 'balanced' and more generic, there were real novelty & joy in playing some of the 'odd' classes, and the production quality of the world was so good for its times.

Beside EVE and MMOs like WoW, I actually enjoy immersive single player game experiences. Recently I had awesome fun playing GTA V story mode, and when I look back there were some unforgettable gaming classics such as Baldurs Gate series, which is still amazing to re-play again these days.

Generally I'm looking for 'immersion', where I can get truly lost in the game world/story and forget about everything else RL momentarily.

Just to add a bit more on WoW.... in the early days where everyone was green & plenty of people were new to the game, it was great fun forming random parties together & trying out dungeons and such. Lots of people didn't know how to do some boss fights, and people experimented to figure out how to defeat certain foes or how to do the party quests.

Then through the years, inevitably everything became very elitist. I was guilty of it too as I was loaded in good gears & raided with a good/well established guild. But that freshness and joy of the early exploratory days were over. People looked down on noobs with green gears and would rage over someone doing something stupid, instead of having a lol moment about it. The only freshness I got was when new contents (i.e. new expansion packs with new raid contents and such) came out and we had to challenge to complete/defeat the dungeon for the first time as the guild. That 'figuring out' and 'experimenting' part was always fun, but of course, as these things always turn out to be, after while you'd get guides and walk-throughs all over the internet and soon everyone would be 'farming' for stuff and all the raids become routine again.

To some extent EVE has similar problems, where newly introduced PVE contents such as Incursions become nothing more than generic farming and endless isk faucet, and the hardcore groups will always become elitist and accept nothing but super blings for their fleet.

It is indeed very difficult to keep a game 'fresh' for many years. Where WoW failed but EVE still somewhat gives me that new excitement is the player driven contents & wtf/lol moments that catch you off guard every now and then.

Dabble in DayZ standalone.

Smaller budget or kick-started games seem to capture my interest anymore. Pillars of Eternity, Necropolis, Hyper Light Drifter, SRR.

Dabble in FFXIV on Mateus server as well.

Heroes of the storm

Going to give Legion a try and level trough the content but I don't have the patience for the raiding anymore

And on the side The Settlers, the witcher and itching to play dungeon keeper again here soon.

I spent lot of time on national WoW private servers. Played lots of battlegrounds, later led 10 or 15-man battleground raids. Lots of bugs, occasional custom content and mostly everyone was noob. Quit after they started to upgrade beyond the burning crusades. That first week in Eversong Woods has been the best gaming experience I have to date.

Then a few years later my ex introduced me to League of Legends. Went through a lot of ranked matches playing support until I finally realized cooperation doesn't mean jack **** in MOBAs. Got into diamond V with Heimer then just quit. Similar with HoTS.

Now I'm here. Eve is like the endgame MMO. It's probably also the only MMO not made primarily for children. Love the hardcore nature & dreading the day it will inadvertently close. The closest alternative, Star Citizen, is just too damn casual.

In between I enjoyed lots of single player games, mostly indies: 140, This Is the Police, The Banner Saga, and obviously Life Is Strange.

And btw, what does The Burning Crusade mean? Like, it's the name of the expedition against Illidan?