Cameron Zero
Red Federation
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Posted - 2011.09.18 20:37:00 -
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I initially started playing because a few of my friends were playing and told me they could get me into a corp and help me out. Sadly, after playing for a couple of months, it because very evident that the corporation (moving into a wormhole when I joined) wasn't exactly the right fit for me. I gradually became disenchanted with Eve because it had too many choices, and went back to playing another MMO.
This past summer, I saw the Alliance Tournament coming up, so I made sure to watch it, and it reminded me of the things which initially drew me to this game. I knew, though, I couldn't just start playing again, so I thought about it for awhile. I needed a direction, something to achieve...
It was the Alliance Tournament which answered that question, too. I wanted to PVP. I started reading various blogs about pirates and thought to myself, maybe that would be fun. I was reading various parts of the Eve Online forums and looked at several of the "noob friendly" corporations, and that's when I settled on Red vs Blue. I got a 5-day free offer which helped cement the deal, as well as the 2 months for the price of 1 deal. I figured, if those two months didn't tell me whether or not I was going to have fun, nothing would.
The arranged PVP in Red vs Blue, while not to some people's taste, really pulled me in. The first battle I survived (getting three kills), my adrenaline was pumping in a way I haven't experienced in any other game. The fact that everything in Eve Online has a real world cost attached to it (via PLEX transactions you can pretty much attach a real dollar amount to anything in game) only made it better. Every action had consequences, real ones.
And so, here I am, a few months later, and I've cancelled the subscription for my old MMO (which I'd played since 09-2005) and been playing Eve ever since. I have a focus, and I'm starting to branch out into other things, too.
(I hope that helps to answer the OP's original question.)
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