Why is it that people think this game is for everyone?

EVE is clearly fueled by competition and cannot survive without it. You don't need to spend 15$ per month to look at nebulae and 3D ship models.

Anyone who uses "forcing me to do this" in their argument intrigues me; I have no idea why they are spending money on this game in the first place. The only thing really forcing you to anything is your own brain. If you are tired of getting your progress slowed, it's nobody's fault but your own that you do not use the tools given to everyone.

If you don't like shooting ships, that's your problem. Just don't try telling me those who shoot ships have an unfair advantage when it is clearly an advantage. In fact, anything you do in this game gives you an advantage over those who don't.

That is just as crazy as people moving to a different country and asking for laws to accommodate their personal needs or beliefs.

I wish to thank this Undesirable for proving my statements entirely.

For the benefit of any Undesirables who wish to educate themselves, I shall elucidate on how this particular Undesirable misunderstands the core concepts of EVE Online.

Firstly, the entire game is, after a fashion, PVP. Yes, even your actions constitute a form of PVP. You mine your space rocks, you sell them or use them to manufacture items. Ask yourself this, my Undesirable friend, who purchases your space rocks or manufactured goods? Other players. How do they purchase them? Through an entirely player ran and very competitive market.

Your actions are competing with other players, influencing market prices, availability, etc. You are PVPing and you don't even know.

With that in mind, how is it unreasonable that the other players - ones who are affected by your actions and playstyle - should be able to in turn affect you? It isn't.

Secondly, after making the incorrect statement that the game is "not PVP" you claimed it was instead "sandbox". How would you define "sandbox" gameplay, Undesirable? I am curious. Personally, I define it as players being able to choose their own playstyles and actions - all players, not just you. Some players may choose to interfere with your playstyle. To further relate it to the sandbox analogy... it is a single sandbox you share with others, not your own personal sandbox. There are other games and forms of entertainment in which you can have your own personal sandbox with whatever rules you wish. EVE is not one of them. You are free to do what you like, but there are other people in the sandbox and they are free to do what they like too, including kicking sand in your face.

I urge you, Undesirable, to cancel your subscriptions and purchase another game. You would find much more satisfaction and joy in other such games. You will have no such luck in EVE.

+1 to Thor.

I hate reading that "playstyle" crap to, it's just a poorly thought up defense for some folks ego. It's them imagining that ( a ) some tyrant is trying to "make" them do something and ( b ) someone else actually care about what they, personally, are doing, none of which tends to be true.

The "leave me alone to play how I want" eve player is like a Guy who doesn't like Soccer (football to y'all foreigners ...I mean non-Americans :) ) but joins a soccer team and ignores the ball( hell, REFUSES to kick the ball even when given a chance) but instead picks daisies on the corner of the field because actually playing soccer "isn't his preferred play style"........

EVE is a pvp/competition-centric multiplayer sandbox imagined by and created by a bunch of evil psychopathic tear loving Icelandic wackos, and I knew that BEFORE I DL'd the game. And yet people still come into (and STAY in) this game expecting to be able to play it unmolested in safe space, then spazz completely out when some other member of out multiplayer universe kills them.

I just can't say enough about how I dislike "those people" (not everyone in high sec or every solo/casual players, just the ones who think the game should cater to them) and it's "those people" who tend to say all that "playstyle" stuff. They're like people who go to a Marilyn Manson concert expecting uplifting gospel music. In other words, idiots.

This game is not and has never been for everyone, I say love it or leave it.