Levaria
Gallente Ever Flow Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2009.02.26 16:22:00 -
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Originally by: Talancir D'Landior
Originally by: Atropos Kahn I have been beating around 0.0 for almost 4 years now... participating in the constant battle for moons, sytems, and whole regions of space. I have partaken in many a victory as well as defeat and slaughter. I have lost it all just to gain it all and lose it all again. You veteran pilots know the story, we all share it. And it will continue to be this way untill I quit the game, or CCP closes up shop. Kill or be Killed.
I wonder though, does all this fighting to conquer and re-conquer space have an everlasting effect on our RL psyche. All the epicness that EVE brings.. The drama that we create for ourselves concerning Goons, Bob, or whoever can be traced to similar epicness in our own RL histories, like the Romans, Persians, or Greeks. We are all playing it all out again in VR. It is grand and it is full of awesomeness and such. But does it effect you outside the game. CCP talks about how EVE is more of a web 2.0 social network rather than a game, but I am begining to notice that the stakes are getting ever higher. With the crash of the BOB alliance as the most recent epicness to cross our history, has more than towers been lost? Have relationships and social norms that have been entrenched for years and suddenly lost effect our RL that we had not anticipated. There is a lot of personal investment that each of us make into our VL lives in EVE, but more so into our corps and alliance mates. Can these sudden losses and gains give us post tramatic stress? With that same thought though, maybe that is why people like Chirbba and things like mining is so appealing to some in the end, even if for a short while. Sort of an escape from the constant waring. I don't know. I wanted to just throw it out there considering we will all most likely be playing for a long time to come.
And since I know how COAD treats it's posters... let the fail cascading responses commence!
You know, you're getting into a field of study that's still without concrete boundaries. PTSD, which is a blanket term, has a very instinctive "fight or flight" and emotionally connected orientation.
PTSD is also referred to as TBI, or Traumatic Brain Injury. I recall that you can get a TBI without physical impact, so while farfetched, your wondering isn't without justification. What with people being discouraged to play, to where when they get scammed in such a horrible manner that they lose all motivation to continue and quit, you can't help but wonder.
It could be in the same ballpark as those people who return from warzone, something happens to make them lose hope or faith that they'll be able to take whatever comes their way, then commit suicide.
Disclaimer: I just got back from Iraq not too long ago so I have an idea what I'm talking about. I've been getting damn reorientation classes about it.
I figured since this isnt a typical CAOD flamebait omfgwtfbbqsauce post and is relevant to my past experiences i will post on here even though AXIOM is not allowed to troll CAOD. I came back from Iraq in April of 2008. It depends on just how seriously people take the game, I guess if you emotionally focus and develop yourself through the game via in game accomplishments and only measure success that way, then once you get scammed,cheated,taken over, etc... maybe something happens, maybe something doesnt. Im not brain expert so either way it can go. Ironically i played eve while i was in Iraq (I was stationed in southern Baghdad, lots of RL pew pew going on.) For me it was an outlet from real life patrols out in sector, raids, fire fights and seeing **** get ******-up and having some damn good friends and soldiers of mine make the ultimate sacrafice. Everyone had their little mental getaway in Iraq, playing Eve let me reconnect with my buddies back home and abroad and let off some steam, thats just my two cents.
~Pirates May Cry but Care Bears will die!~
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