TL; DR.

TL;DR: You're killing the game.

EVE is dying (again) thread detected.

CCP needs better control of their New Player experience.

The direction that CCP is going with the game doesn't concern me nearly as much as the direction the Players are going with the Player Driven Content.

The major issues in the game are caused by the Player base. Most games of this sort have a foundation struggle of "Good vs Evil", but the players have drifted so far into the "Immoral" direction that it's like playing a game of "Bad Pirate vs Worse Pirate" and the "Good Guys" are all but defenseless. Personally I call it the "Grand Theft Auto" mentality.

It is destructive, childish, and will eventually destroy the game for many people.

The direction that CCP is going with the game doesn't concern me nearly as much as the direction the Players are going with the Player Driven Content.

The major issues in the game are caused by the Player base. Most games of this sort have a foundation struggle of "Good vs Evil", but the players have drifted so far into the "Immoral" direction that it's like playing a game of "Bad Pirate vs Worse Pirate" and the "Good Guys" are all but defenseless. Personally I call it the "Grand Theft Auto" mentality.

It is destructive, childish, and will eventually destroy the game for many people.

No !

It's the PLAYERS who have responsibility here, not CCP !

I think history has shown how difficult it is to rely on the Players to do anything positive. At one end, there's herding cats, at the other end, there's ganking the crazy cat lady and then eating her cats alive, one by one, in front of her. EVE players tend to be closer to the latter.

You are a part of the issue and not related to a solution.

Nobody in this game is defenseless per se.

I fail to see how this related to what i was saying.
You seem to be generalizing way too much.

there are plenty of players drawn to eve by the ganking, and there are always questions in rookie help about being the bad guy.


Pro-Synergy is, in my opinion, a good way for newbies (and some alts of bitter vets that I know of) to get isk fairly fast while learning other things.

You are omitting one thing in your analysis, you need there to be a steady supply of carebears, otherwise you will end up ganking other gankers who will gank you back and then who would get the salvage and stuff to build your ships to throw at concord?

Perhaps I shouldn't have skimmed, but I came away with:

"declare war on new players in general"

Getting right on it.

Or now that you're sobering up, you need to realize that your High Self and your Sober Self don't agree on much. Your High Self and I think your Sober Self is wrong about your opinion of us.

Maybe your herbage magnified the issue in your mind. It can do that to me as well.

The direction that CCP is going with the game doesn't concern me nearly as much as the direction the Players are going with the Player Driven Content.

The major issues in the game are caused by the Player base. Most games of this sort have a foundation struggle of "Good vs Evil", but the players have drifted so far into the "Immoral" direction that it's like playing a game of "Bad Pirate vs Worse Pirate" and the "Good Guys" are all but defenseless. Personally I call it the "Grand Theft Auto" mentality.

It is destructive, childish, and will eventually destroy the game for many people.

OP = Creative Writing Assignment

Topic:

Fear and Loathing in New Eden

Instructions:

- in 6000 words or less do your best to emulate the writing style of Hunter S. Thompson while commenting on a niche-culture active in 2013.


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Grade B+