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Really hard to play another MMO after EVE. I do play other games but if it is a time intensive game I can't even bother, EVE is time intensive enough.

Only MMO I've played for the last four years

Continuous development of FIS, WIS, PVP, PVE, new star bases, core technology and UI improvements will keep me here indefinitely.

World of Warplanes....

That is all.

You could try Arma 2 with the DayZ zombie mod. It is a FPS with PvP. I know the mod is still in development but it has the tension, it is hard and you don't know if the zombies or the other players are the worse threat.

Gaming has taken a huge step backwards it has been occurring for quite awhile.
i was going to place a number on the years but the more i thought about it the more i realized just how much we have lost .

R.I.P Star Wars Galaxies
R.I.P. Allegiance (not really dead but only a shadow)
R.I.P. Earth and Beyond


At some point the industry shifted and stopped offering in depth game experiences .

games became more streamlined and less about exploring the mechanics and or the environment .

More and more games placed the player in a limited environment that controlled their exposure to the game world. Forcefully directed their progress through the game and reduced the challenge to accomplish in game goals.

Choice and variety has been removed from alot a games you will find that in many games, player tools are reduced to 3 or 4 types and balanced poorly. When i say poorly i mean that the developer has subscribed to the theory that every tool should be within line with the other. Making all the tools pretty much the same as the other albeit with just a different skin and effect.

These changes maybe an effect , that gaming has become a much more demanding process on developers.
Art assets are a true problem these days as they are freaking expensive in both time and money .

Game engines requiring more elaborate methods to interact in the environments and probably require special talents from a talent pool that is already limited.

These factors take time and money from building an epic game.

Yet there is still light at the end of this tunnel the recent successful kick starters have shown that their is a demand for better and more creative titles.

With the highly successful indie market proving that their is good ideas and talent still out there, hopefully with these two combining we will see a third renaissance in gaming .

Well, maybe it's not that other games are really dull, maybe it's because Eve gives all we really want from a game.

You have MMO without skills grind, pvp is everywhere either direct (shooting ppl) or indirect (market competition), economy is not created by elves, almost no boundaries in what you can do, you have drama, you have politics, you have trolls, you have shakes after a fight, you have quite heavy industrial side, you have missions, "uncharted" places in form of wormholes, constant progress in graphics, scheduled expansions adding more of everything mentioned above (especially drama)...

It's hard to go and kill gnomes when you just blown somebody's spacepixels into oblivion and killmail shows it was worth 40 real live euro/dollars and you know somewhere somebody is raging right now :)

I admit, this weekend I played Max Payne 3 a lot but it's because I like this series. And it has a nice story, Max is great character to play, Sao Paulo is nice location to "visit" with a gun in your hand and the way they show us Max's reality full of booze and painkillers with shattering vision and stuff is great but... I know I will return to Eve in no time.

i saw that, it's gameplay design isn't even worthy of being considered an Elder Scrolls game, i mean, class-based combat with catoony/stylized graphics? they are just reskinning WoW and calling it Tamriel.

EVE is the game you play while playing other games, in the sense that you'll always come back to EVE other games not so much.
I play Dark Souls, Demons Souls and Skyrim when i don't feel like playing EVE for a while. But i always come back to EVE.

EVE infinity because if you get hooked you'll never really leave.

Have to agree there, Eve offers a depth & impact almost no other game can offer these days. The player driven market, the single sharded universe (one server where everone plays) and the fact you're nowhere truly safe adds to the game. You know you make an impact, however small it is on the game.

If this is a letter of love to CCP Soundwave you have to ask Goonswarm agreement first. (bzzzz bees are coming)

Also: bring a couple bottles of Jack single barrel, then we can discuss.