Infinity Ziona
Minmatar
Cloakers
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Posted - 2010.12.21 01:47:00 -
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Edited by: Infinity Ziona on 21/12/2010 01:51:05
EvE was supposed to be a niche game. The idea was a universe that was harsh, difficult and mean. It was never supposed to be a WoW-like space game.
Did Oveur move on to something else? He seemed like he had the best interests of the game at heart.
Since then however, EvE has become more and more wow-like. The niche game that was harsh, difficult and mean in no longer harsh difficult and mean. EvE is no longer a niche game. Its a mainstream MMO with the usual mainstream things:
* Easy to make isk (respawning plex and anomalies in 0.0).
* Carebear centric alliances
* Minimalistic loss (jump clones, jump bridges, buffed insurance, massive incomes vs mimimized losses)
* Devs all too happy to respawn peoples ships and losses too frequently
A typical battleship suicide costs you 20 million isk, occasionally you might even make a profit just on the suicide if you manufacture your own ships and modules.
Comparing a day of WoW battlegrounds to a day of EvE PvP it takes roughly the same time to recover the gold for repairs to your armor as it does to recover the losses from losing a battlecruiser.
In short EvE has become an average carebear mmo, 0.0 is controlled by carebears, there is no risk, harshness or meanness unless its coming from a large blob of carebears whose sole intention is to negate all risk and loss.
There are exceptions to this mentality as there are in other games, but they are rare.
The blame is squarely on the developers. I believe they suffer from the same disease that devs in other games eventually all suffer from. When the ching ching of the dollar (or isk) vs the spirit of the game as it was intended is weighted, it only takes a single dev to propose just one 'compromise' for the game to start going down the slippery slope of commercialization. Eventually the compromises keep being introduced, 'just one small thing' and you have a snowball effect and suddenly instead of running to the nexus is 30 minutes your clicking on a stone that takes you there in 1 second, or clicking on a jump bridge instead of traveling into 0.0 and risking your ship.
I realized EvE was no longer EvE when 0.0 alliance players started making posts / responding in threads with such carebear opinions, that quite frankly, would have had them thrown out of their 0.0 corps / alliances in the days when EvE was actually a harsh, mean and risky place.
My favorite was "If you remove local, all of 0.0 would have to go back to empire to run L4's cause the isk / risk ratio would make 0.0 unattractive". That's just plain sad and should make all the original EvE developers cry. Rest in peace EvE, you may not be dead in terms of being shut down, but in terms of the spirit and intent, your a rotting corpse filled with the maggoty detritus of carebear overindulgence.
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