Out of Pod Experience

It may seem like a strange thing to ask, but according to some unnamed game developers, American gamers see punishing the player as a problem with a game rather than admitting their own mistakes.

So I want to know, what gamers here are from the U.S.? Why are you playing EVE despite how its problem of punishing players?

If you're from the US, I want to know why you're playing EVE despite the "problem" of the game punishing the player for failure.

Am I to understand that you are calling pistol packing, war mongering, fire and brimstone bible thumping, filling up the prisons, road raging, hate group creating, kill you for wearing the wrong colors Americans a bunch of carebears?

Where, praytell, did you get this information from?

Out of respect I won't say who said it, but a game developer recently said that American MMO gamers can't deal with failure.

I want to know if that's true or not.

Punishing players for failure is a problem among American gamers. Same with forcing gamers to read and providing anything but the most well designed and easy to use interface. European gamers can take it though.

I see you added some speculation and decided the conjecture and opinion is absolute fact.

Guess you made up your mind based on your hate boner.

You should really let the upper brain do some thinking once and a while.

Made it up, gotcha.

Fine, here you go.

To be honest I am a little offended.

If you are that easily offended, maybe your should no start a thread that stereo type a hole nation.

Because some americans have a gaming related character flaw, does not mean that everyone has it. Most people playing eve are probably not having any problems with being punished for their mistakes, most may even be quick to learn from their on and others mistakes.

The only difference between the "American gamer" and the "European gamer" or the "Asian gamer" or any other "ThisGenericRegion gamer" is how much attention to unjustified temper tantrums the developer gives, and how badly the playerbase reacts when their temper tantrums go ignored for too long.
That is to say, there's always some crybabies on all sides of each of the oceans, it's only a matter of degree.

So, I guess, if you really want to get down to the splittiest of the hairs, the geezer is sort of right - a slightly larger proportion of USA gamers are somewhat more likely to feel a bit more entitled, make more noise when they really shouldn't, and the USA-centric devs more likely to cave in to their demands or even pre-emptively design to minimize those complaints from the word go even if it saps on the power of some of the fun parts of the game itself.
That doesn't mean a game like EVE would be completely unpopular with an USA audience or strongly resonate with an European audience only. The demographics of EVE-Online subscribers relatively recently looked like this:
~37% USA
~14% UK
~8% Germany
~5.5% Russia
~5% Canada
~3% Australia
~2.5% France
~2.3% each to Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark (and well under 20% everybody else combined)
...which is pretty damn strong as far as USA player totals go, more than one third of the playerbase, more than double of any other nation, and more than every smaller-than-2% nation combined.

So, yeah, the archetypal USA gamer might be a lazy slob who likes everything spoon-fed, but that doesn't mean every USA gamer fits the stereotype. Stereotypes are there for a reason, they might fit a significant portion, but they certainly don't fit everybody.