Your mistake is buying into the self-spun myth of the minority PvP players that they comprise the most of EVE's player base (NOT) and therefore their activity is what drives the giant wheel of EVE. Note: This crowd is not known for their collective elevators reaching the top floor. What the actual majority does, not what PvP-ers are terrified you won't believe because then management might start making decisions that don't include them, rather than tailor the game to themselves, always drives the big wheel. Yes, the ego factors heavily into this equation. However, as in all egotistical enterprise, facts do not.

SO, it's a fabricated issue, PvP vs. PvE. There is no issue. Only mindless gankers claim miners don't do anything, while they suicidally lose another ship, buy one someone had to have made from minerals someone mined. It's like a kid who thinks the cookies are actually made by elves in a tree stump. By the way, even if you took the hours to drag out the definitive proof, they'd ignore it and babble on anyway. It's not just EVE, by the way. PvP-ers go to every game in existence and claim they're the only real players and the devs should tailor games to their desires. No one is immune.

The problems arise when supposedly educated and intelligent people fall for their line of crapola and accede to their wishes. Then the "balance the game for a handful of people" tug of war starts. The majority of players fall to the wayside of inattention. Subscriptions are cancelled. The game is distorted beyond recognition. The PvP-ers move on to do it to somebody else.

They really don't like it when you bring this up. It's not only like telling the king's mother he has no clothes, it's like telling the king, he really isn't a king, either. You know how that goes. Just remember as you wade through the back and forth, these people don't get the luxury of defining the terms. They don't get to say "it's a PvP-centric game" and that becomes a fact. They don't get to say "PvE is allowed" and that becomes a fact. But, they do say these things hoping to be taken as some sort of authority. You can tell if this tactic is working by how people frame their discussion after that, i.e. "...since it's a PvP-centric game, then...." It's propaganda. It's bogus. They have no authority to define anything. They are bullsh!tting and hoping it sticks.

We are all the masters of our own stupidity, or our own comprehension. Be swayed by whom you will. I prefer to remember some random geek on the internet who struts in text typing "PvP" every third syllable, isn't GOD.