There are lots of other games to play, and CCP's latest developments seem to revolve around the further fleecing monetization of existing players, and attracting short-attention-span pay2win types of new players who don't stick around very long and are distracted easily.

OMG this is hilarious. Whoever dreamed this up should write for stand-up comics...fracking loans....hooboy.

Well the reason is pokemon go

Yeah it's like when you go out for dinner and your food tastes disgusting - it is not the foods fault. We are the ones with the taste buds so we are the ones to blame... Right??

All games get dull over time, that is to be expected. Eve takes about 1-2 years before you fully understand the game and decide what you do and don't like. After that point the question is whether the things you do like are enough to keep you coming back for more.

EVE is a very interesting game when you look at it as a whole but for a game that is all about spaceships it's pretty weak. It's supposed to be a futuristic space ship game but all you do is push buttons, unlike other games such as Elite dangerous, war thunder, etc where the actual flying of your craft can be exhilarating.

But you were so close! You already found out an important part of how the game works: there is no area where you're safe.

Yeah, maybe you need a course in statistics. That is based on 8,000 players.

I would say a reduction in player interaction in highsec has had an impact. If we look back what what was different back when the game was growing compared to now one standout thing is the level of safety has gone up but at the cost of reducing the amount of pvp. This game is built upon player interaction so it can't be a coincidence that the numbers staying has gone down as pvp options have been reduced.

For example mining. Today the risk to miners is next to zero, only CODE attack them and not in any meaningful way, its just random terrorist attacks. In the past you had a reason to attack them and the attacks were targeted which meant there was some skill involved with fitting and flying a barge. We had things like hulkageddon and the ice interdictions, Dracvlad will scream about their targeting of miners but these events created a lot of content in highsec for everyone including the miners.

The constant nerfs to highsec PvP has resulted in a lot of content being removed from highsec. Its not the only thing but it has to be significant. Basically, the bears screamed nerf, CCP listened and the bears then found the game boring because nothing exciting or challanging happens anymore.

There is no arguing that we have lost a great deal of content from highsec over the last few years.

Actually its not what I was saying mate, I was talking about he lack of balance with gankers making it so casual hisec get fed up and leave the game. There will still be people like you running around. Will be interesting to see just how the "content" develops when it is only players like you. Will be damn funny to watch actually...