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Posted - 2015.04.23 16:49:31 -
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S3LICI3 wrote:i just returned to eve a few months ago after being gone about 5 years. yes, there were suicide gankers and there was danger and it was a lot of fun (that's why i came back). the danger made the game fun, i expected to lose some ships and when i did, no complaint, i put "good fight" or "g/f" in local and a few minutes later i am back in a new ship having fun and its all good. now it is different, not the same game it was 5 years ago. since i came back, i log in on the weekends (my days off work and best time for eve), i check the killboards and what? no point today - why bother to undock? so i log out and do something else on my day off, try again later. seems to be like this all the time now. what has happened to the eve i used to love so much? i used to do allnighters, i couldn't get enough i was logged in as much as i could. now only a few hours a week during slow times, weekends impossible now, .5 and .6 suicide fleets of bored veterans? what happened?
This is pretty much a useless ramble, as you didn't describe WHAT changed that makes you not want to log in.
Well, things have changed in EVE, good and bad. The thing that probably changed and thus "caused" your boredom with it, however, is most likely YOU.. "Boredom" occurs when a person mistakenly blames the environment for what is actually more likely to be THEM responding to a set of internal mental or emotional factors (then blaming something external like EVE for it).
(Side note: another really interesting article related to this subject)
You aren't alone, people do it all day, there is a significant faction of this very forum's population who blame their boredom or lack of interest in the game on the game and thus (falsely) believe that if CCP changes something (like "add more content") then they will be ok. Actually, most MMOs thrive on the fact that people mistakenly blame their boredom on an environmental factors, and get people to spend money in cash shops to unlock "content" to medicate the symptoms of that boredom (it "i want to win" that fuels the behavior like people believe, it's "I don't want to be bored and new shiny stuff that I can use to beat others thus getting bragging rights will help me not be bored").
It's yet another reason what EVE isn't for everyone. CCP doesn't introduce a lot of new real 'content', they rely on us to make out own. Those of us who are good at this, good at making our own fun in game are probably not the adrenaline junky types in game or in real life. If you are the kind who is prone to "boredom", Then EVE might not be the right game for you. Lots of things people call"boring" in EVE I call "relaxing".
I do it a lot with PVE, trying new things like how to solo Drifters, how to solo a Blood Raider 10/10 (damn the guy who made that video who figured out something that I couldn't!), how to make more "isk per tick" in a null anomaly etc etc. Others do it with figuring out how to beat pvp ships with industrials or figuring out how to make mad isk with Cheap ships in dangerous low sec.. I've played EVE for going on 8 years now, and I have yet to be 'bored' with the game, which leads me to the brilliant observation below (as if an observation of the obvious can be brilliant lol):
People who get 'bored' in a rich situation like EVE Online have two things in common, they have low levels of both creativity and drive. They do the same things over and over (be it PVE, or PVP) because they are the types who like to do only the things they feel competent at, then blame the game for their boredom when the "boredom" comes from inside themselves.
TL;DR it's probably you dude. |