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What Motivates You to Play EVE Online?
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Antihrist Pripravnik
Cultural Enrichment and Synergy of Diversity
Stain Neurodiverse Democracy
#21 - 2014-07-05 08:10:18 UTC
EVE Online.
DJentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#22 - 2014-07-05 08:26:04 UTC
Lar Tadaruwa wrote:
Is it fun?

If it is fun that motivates you to play EVE Online, what is fun?
(What do you define as fun, and what do you describe as the fun activity in EVE Online?)

What motivates the fun, and what fun motivates you?


If other reasons or motivation than fun, please state what is the motivation .


Other motivation or uses (practical use) maybe use for work or learning.

To practice ideas or other life skills...

Memory skills, other skills.
Socialize, Friends?
Business, IT, Arts, Music, Writing.
Science, Astronomy related, Aeronautics, Robotics.
Design, analysis, architecture.


All of the above and so much more.

Fun to me is a sandbox - where the basic laws (Game Mechanics) are established, and players are pretty much free to create content in that sandbox.

I get a special kick out of the social aspects and meeting awesome people - and realizing that there is SO MUCH MOAR to this then AFK mining and shooting red crosses - there's a whole universe of interaction and LOL just waiting to happen.

(Read in EPIC MOVIE TRAILER VOICE) - In world ruled by cookie cutter MMO's where player actions have no meaning, comes a epic creation where the only thing that has *any* meaning is player actions.
Paranoid Loyd
#23 - 2014-07-05 08:50:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
This evil monkey makes me play, if I dont, it has threatened to steal my peaches Cry

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Nose' Feliciano
#24 - 2014-07-05 08:53:14 UTC
What Motivates You to Play EVE Online?


Mostly boredom.

Remodeled Crane Concept
Anke Eyrou
Hades Sisters
#25 - 2014-07-05 18:12:01 UTC
to escape from the other half.

I expect to get this post deleted or locked. So much for freedom of expression.

gnshadowninja
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#26 - 2014-07-05 18:22:33 UTC
Watching people explode due to my pure awesomeness.
Jim Era
#27 - 2014-07-05 20:52:14 UTC
The soundtrack is the best part of the game.

Wat™
Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#28 - 2014-07-05 21:31:34 UTC
Jim Era wrote:
The soundtrack is the best part of the game.


Official Eve Soundtrack

yes, i agree.

eve online original intro
Matilda Cecilia Fock
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2014-07-05 22:02:50 UTC
Well, I play EVE because I have an active subscription.

I have an active subscription because I paid a month to keep using this alt account to have fun with the forums.

I started this account because it costed me 3 cents.

Once these become the most expensive forums I ever paid for, I'll be back to my retirement, as EVE still is the same old and tired game I retired from.

Q: Should we be worried? A: Nope. (...) Worry a lot if Fozzie, Masterplan, Rise, Veritas, Bettik, Ytterbium, Scarpia, Arrow, or even Greyscale leaves. Worry a little if Punkturis, karkur, SoniClover, Affinity, Goliath, or Xhagen leaves.
Noriko Mai
#30 - 2014-07-05 22:12:04 UTC
It has the lowest children quota of all games out there. Grown up community is point number one. I hate crybabies and devs who obey to this little fucks.

"Meh.." - Albert Einstein
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#31 - 2014-07-06 02:37:08 UTC
Goal setting ... and reading too many Eve blogs
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#32 - 2014-07-06 02:45:21 UTC
The unscripted, unpredictable, infinitely adaptable human opposition.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#33 - 2014-07-06 02:55:42 UTC
I used to create loose screenplay style scripts that I could evolve inside the EVE Universe better than I could in other games. New Eden was a great place to be if you had an imagination.
Garresh
Mackies Raiders
Wild Geese.
#34 - 2014-07-06 04:02:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Garresh
Freedom

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where
I cannot stand

I don't care.
I'm still free.
You can't take
the sky from me.

Take me out
into the black
and tell em I
ain't coming back.

Burn the land and
Boil the sea.
You can't take
the sky from me.




Cheesy? Probably. But that song sums eve up for me perfectly. I go where I want and do what I want, making friends and enemies along the way. No matter what they tell you, and how much eve seems to be about corporations, you always have a choice. You are whatever you choose to be. I hope your choice makes you happy. And if it doesn't, you're free to choose another path. You can always walk away and do something else. And no matter how much you think you know, you can always learn more.

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#35 - 2014-07-06 04:12:22 UTC
"Greed Is Good"

Never was a great game quantified so accurately by so few words.

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Malcolm Shinhwa
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2014-07-06 04:57:53 UTC
I play EVE because I get to have pretend enemies for made up reasons and then try to mess with them while not being messed with myself.

[i]"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental[/i]."
Wu Jiaqiu
#37 - 2014-07-06 07:33:03 UTC
Strangely enough, EVE to me is not a fun game.I don't have fun when I get a kill, or win a BLINK on Somer lotteries. I don't have fun when the Losec plex I am doing drops a 500mil ISK item. I don't have fun when I barely escape the guy that is scanning me down. I don't have fun when I subsequently find someone who podded me two weeks ago and activate his kill right in Rens. What I feel is....rewarded. Its a very, VERY rewarding game.

When I successfully slingshot out of a kiting frigate, I feel rewarded. I got to keep my ship for a little longer even though I hit the "Forfeit ship" button that is misspelled as "Undock". I can not find in any other game this same kind of feeling I get. Every time I die I learn a little bit more. I've even been scammed for about 3 billion before. It was dreadfully punishing to me but it actually made me like the game a little more.

I had a conversation with a friend of mine recently. We were discussing League of Legends, a MOBA game. In the end, you feel the same rewarding feeling when you achieve new elo ranks. You feel the same rewarding feeling when you get your first pentakill and the subsequent. But those feelings we mutually agreed on eventually fades. It is very pale in comparison.

So I log in.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Varathius
Enlightened Industries
Goonswarm Federation
#38 - 2014-07-06 07:41:44 UTC
I have the reply window open now since 10 minutes not even knowing where to start... in what other game does something like this happen? I guess I said enough.
Dave Stark
#39 - 2014-07-06 07:43:19 UTC
the skill queue.
Jawls Rohn
Neon Incorporated
#40 - 2014-07-06 09:03:48 UTC
I don't get to play as often as I'd like due to RL commitments, but I like the player driven economy, the solo and small gang pvp that never fails to get my heart pounding regardless of result, and I'm in corp with a great group of people.