Problem is we're throwing the baby out with he bathwater. WIS could have had interesting gameplay and content. They messed up and it didn't, and now these forums start frothing at the mouth at the very mention of it because they can't separate the Incarna failure from the concept of walking outside your ship.

I swear people seem to follow 'Eve is about spaceships' like it's some kind of fundamental religion. Eve is about people cooperating or competing with each other. There's no reason that can't take place outside a ship. Hell, all the scamming and espionage we love so much basically takes place outside of a ship, it takes place on TS and forums and chat and whatever.

CCP REMOVE SCAMMING PLEASE EVE SHOULD BE ABOUT SPACESHIPS ONLY THX.

No, my goonie, no. Their priorites are developing and releasing two avatar-based videogames while they feed EVE with regurgigated spaceship content.

People need to stop making comparisons with second life for the walking in stations content. Saying that WiS would be like second life (a game with more subs and a faster expanding player base) is not helping your argument. If I could fly spaceships, scam people, build hostile empires with the beautiful graphics eve has on second life, then I would be playing second life.

Besides, (although this is borderline heretical) second life probably has more emergent game play than Eve could ever hope to have.