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Posted - 2013.10.08 16:10:00 -
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Varius Xeral wrote:This is neither an Eve is ~dying nor a CCP cheerleader thread. I want to know why, despite all the faults with Eve and CCP messups, you continue to subscribe to Eve, and why you think others do.
Personally I don't even really like "spaceships", or even science fiction for that matter, beyond Clarkesque futurism. However, the competitive and emergent sandbox gameplay has kept me playing Eve years past when I have quit playing videogames in general, and subscribing even when I don't have the time to actually play the game much at all. That said, if there was another game that captured that competitive and emergent sandbox gameplay, in particular a fantasy-based game, I would be gone from Eve without a second thought.
So I'm curious why others continue to play and continue to subscribe. What keeps you playing, and what would it take from a new game to replace what Eve currently satisfies for you?
Thanks for serious answers...and joke answers that are actually funny.
Turns out EVE appeals to me in strange ways that I didn't consider in the past while playing other games.
I don't have great reflexes so twitch games for me are fun but I'll never ever be some CoD or battlefield master (not that twitch is everything in those games). I like strategy games as well, but in an odd way find many of them to be "too" distant from the action.
EVE is a perfect middle ground, I'm captaining a ship (not piloting it) while managing a small personal empire of ships, captains (alts), cargo and even real estate while at the same time bieng a member of larger organizations (corp, alliance and incursion communities).
EVE also appeals to me because the game itself (not the lore, that's a different thing) doesn't lie to me. The game says "it's you, your wits, a free rookie ship with 1 trit and 5000 isk against the entire universe, go have fun". Most other games (in both lore and gameplay) make you up to be some super hero who is a special snowflake. i'm a special snowflake in real life (lol) I wanna swim with the sharks when I game.
Lastly EVE appeals to the tinkerer/mad scientist in me. I'm much less of a "shooter" (in the pvp sense) and much more of an "R&D guy who occasional goes to the front line to shoot stuff". There are days where I gotta find something to plug my thumb drive into so i can start eft and tinker with stuff, only to see that stuff fail in game because EFT is great but the realities of the game rule.
Everyone plays EVE for different reasons, some of those reasons i find ridiculous (like those people who play EVE for what it "might" someday be or the masochists who play in spite of the mountains of things they don't like) , but to each his own. |