Cardice Makar
Caldari
Dark Knights of Deneb
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2007.06.26 20:06:00 -
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The past, is in the past. We keep it there for nostalgic purposes. I, too, at times wish that we could go back to the way things were. But then I realize that thinking like that is foolish at best. First, I'd like to apologize for the wall of text.
If the game had stayed the same since Exodus, nothing added, nothing removed, just bugs fixed, people would have gotten bored fairly quickly. Infact, sometime during S.Genesis I took a break for this exact reason... I had no goals anymore. I was bored. The most interesting thing I could think up was going out and hunting people in lowsec and that bored me. New content drives players. The thing is, even with the content being the same, there would have still been an influx of new players. This fact alone changes the game significantly.
The universe isn't what it once was, and thus the game has changed. The game we play now isn't the 10k subscriber, "2k online, wow, busy night" game that we used to play. There are now commonly 20,000k plus players online at any given time. If you went back to the way things were, the game would die.
You can remember any era in the past with fondness. You can look at American history in the 60's with fondness if you'd like, some people do. They remember an era of big cars and big folk with big jobs, etc; that society could not exist today. With the advances that we've had, a change of mentality has occurred as well. If you took all the people in the world and put them back in the 1960's, they wouldn't tolerate it. Something similar has occurred in EVE.
In EVE you have a 1/10th the time to evolve and adapt. Over the last four years, we've evolved so quickly that the people playing seem bored and ancient because they can't keep up with the times [I am one, I know it, I don't mean to insult anyone]. But the only thing you can possibly do is try. The younger players will always have an advantage in that sense, as they learn the playing field in it's updated form. They'll never have to concern themselves with dual-mwd-settups or 8xheatsink gankageddons, they just know what tools they have now.
The stakes today are hugely higher than they've ever been in the past, and the big teams out there are the ones who profit off of it. A solo player today is a dead player because of this. Call it negative, call it positive, it doesn't matter at all. The only constant out there is Change. We all have to live with it together. The game is not the same game as it used to be. Due to the changes, the people who have joined, the opportunities given to us, it will never be the same again. Just like we can't have the '50s or '60s again.
My best suggestion is to keep the nostalgic feeling, use it as a badge of honour and find like-minded people. We're out there, we play the game every day. We have jobs, we have lives, we can't dedicate 23/7 to playing EVE, yet we still manage to have fun.
I wish you the best, and hope you have the chance to grow and adapt in EVE yet again.
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