Originally by: McBane

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Have to admit, I do sympathise with the original poster.

There are always people who moan, so CCP change a load of things and a different set of people moan. The game was good a year ago, all the fiddling with ship mods, stats, and tweaking this that and tuther has not really achieved anything other than shifting the moans from one corner to another. The new content has added to the game, but then many of the bugs from last year are still here and they have a bit of a knack of breaking basic things that have worked for ages each new patch.

My issue with the game now is that its just too much work, everything takes an age to do before I can actually æplayÆ. Making money is a grind that has not changed since IÆve been playing, yet all the new kit costs a fortune and IÆm not lucky enough to own a æprint moneyÆ T2 BPO or have a large amount of time to play the game. I want to log in and have fun, not work.
The game is just to geared to the urber or long-time player now where as a year or two ago you used to be able to just about anything you felt like and didnÆt need huge wealth or huge skill to be competitive. Now it takes planning, team work and lots of time, effort and money. This does give a good game style but only to players who have the time and favour big team style gameplay. All others have been gradually squeezed out into little niche mini games which quickly becomes tedious and boring.

As to players leaving the game and new records being broken, I would guess that the only reason the record was broken this patch is that more and more players are taking out multiple accounts. A year ago I knew a few people with a second account. Now very few people only have one, most have several. I think this is because of the reasons above, on a single account is very hard to do anything bar grind û you almost need a æmoney makingÆ account to fund the æfunÆ account. In addition, since you have now have to specialise more, to do multiple tasks really needs multiple accounts. I wouldnÆt mind betting that is the record was based on the number of physical player rather than accounts, no new records would have been achieved this patch.

Eve is a great game, and I miss playing it, but the last patch destroyed my 2 main source of income and left my stranded many jumps from anywhere useful. Every time I log in now IÆm faced with a mountain of æworkÆ I need to do before I can 'play' the game. And I just don't have it in me to spend my little online time re-adjusting to the patch.


P.S. I am currently deciding who will have my stuff û so donÆt ask ;p

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