Jenn aSide
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2017.02.21 20:02:10 -
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Buster Wortmann2 wrote:I tried for years to get friends interested in eve. Held their hands, sent them plex, Offered to give them high SP toons if they stuck it out long enough to learn the basics well. Only luck I ever had was my brother in law who took a toon with all his learning SP unallocated I was waiting to sell, spent them miserably, bounced around high sec and fizzled out, after about a year. Just when he was getting to a point he was skilled up enough to really get out and see what the game is about.
Waste of $25 to transfer the toon and all the investment in time on the toon. Now he sits in a dead account, I cant get him back and my,,, now ex-bro in law keeps pestering me to join some crap he is playing now.
Eve takes a unique mindset to understand and enjoy, I dunno what it is that makes a person eve-succeptible. I have tried people who I thought were perfect and they lasted a month. I do know console gamers don't have a chance tho.
This is a common story. People try to get people into EVE and fail. I did too, I have a co-worker (actually my boss) whoi loves sci-fi and is a big a nerd as I am (if you can beleive it lol). He played off and on for 3 months and quit. But he still asks me about EVE and "what war are you fighting in now".
The reasons are different for every person, but my favorite explanation is one I read on the Massivley OP website. The article was about a Themepark gamer who wrote a review of some sandbox game experiences he had (it was a fun read, it's funny watching someone who has structured themepark game preferences play a sandbox and totally not understand why others like that kind of unstructured thing).
On reply hit the nail on the head for sandbox games in general and I think EVE in particular. The person replying said (paraphrasing) that:
"Sandbox gaming is about making your own story rather than enjoying a story someone else wrote. It's like writting and Play, or a novel, or a screenplay, or a piece of music.
Most people enjoy watching a movie or a good play or reading a good book or listening to a nice piece of music, but most people will NEVER do those things or want to do those things themselves. Most people want to be entertainined, and gamers are no different, they just enjoy a slightly more interactive form of entertainment than most people. this is why themepark games will always be way more popular than sandboxes, a sandbox is about freedom, a themepark if about entertainment, and most people are looking to be entertained"
I read that and I couldn't help but think of EVE. Even in small ways, the people I play EVE with are making their own stories, or carving out their niche in a slgihtly bigger communal story.
I am too, and I enjoy my personal story even if most people would find that sotry boring (my story goes "day 6,823: Killed some rats made some isk, spent some isk on some BS... Day 6,824: yep, still killing rats, oh and killed a guy in Stain because I didn't like him killin mah rats") lol. |