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Niama
United Warriors
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.08.10 14:02:00 -
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I found this article on BBC. Its from a journalist yet it holds a tint of cognitive psychology knowledge and well aimed points.
Together with other reasons, this is another accurate text on the reasons why games are so important to some people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6932785.stm
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ry ry
StateCorp
The State
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Posted - 2007.08.10 16:01:00 -
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Games let you be a spectator in your own head. They're laboratories which let you contrive test after test - tweak a condition here and a parameter there - and give you a visible, beautiful read-out on just how smart your brain really is.
And in doing that, they give you more insight into your own capabilities than I've ever found in any work of literature or any piece of music.
christ. can't videogames just be a bit of escapist fun anymore?
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Rilder
Caldari
THC LTD
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Posted - 2007.08.10 17:12:00 -
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Edited by: Rilder on 10/08/2007 17:12:53
Edited by: Rilder on 10/08/2007 17:12:38
Originally by: ry ry
can't videogames just be a bit of escapist fun anymore?
/signed
I play games cause my real-life sucks, plus to get out agression, which I happen to have alot of...
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.08.10 17:38:00 -
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Originally by: Rilder
Edited by: Rilder on 10/08/2007 17:12:53
Edited by: Rilder on 10/08/2007 17:12:38
Originally by: ry ry
can't videogames just be a bit of escapist fun anymore?
/signed
I play games cause my real-life sucks, plus to get out agression, which I happen to have alot of...
I'm not surprised... with a chin like that. School must have been hard for you. 
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Arron S
Gallente
Rampage Eternal
Ka-Tet
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Posted - 2007.08.11 02:18:00 -
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I play games because everyone wants to drink and does not want to do anything else.
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Jago Kain
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.08.11 14:37:00 -
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I play games for a number of reasons, some of which have already been stated.
I agree, a bit of escapist fun is good. Real Life does suck sometimes and far better to take out your agression in here IRL. I too deplore the fact that you can't do much with your leisure time that doesn't seem to revolve around the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol. (Although it is possible my collosal lack of imagination is at fault here).
However, the main reason I play games, in particular this one, is to massivley overcompensate for a complete lack of control over my own life, by taking away someone else's in game.
It doesn't matter to me how I do this; I'm just as happy bumping folk near gates to cost them and additional 2 seconds to get through the system as I am sending someone home in a pod, just because he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I even get an e-peen woody  if I can successfully avoid a camp of bored gamers pretending to be pirates who don't yet realise that under the skin, they and I have more in common than they could possibly imagine.... I'm just a little more aware of my deeper motivations.
If I can inconvenience anyone at all, in however small a fashion, then it brings a smile to my pudgy little face.
People talk about winning EVE. Well, I have already won EVE, and I win again every time I do something to someone that they didn't want me to do.
I could dress it all up and waffle on about honour and comradeship, how anti-pirate I am, or how anti-carebear but the simple truth is I am not a nice person and if I can nerf the quality of someone else's life and rationalise it to suit myself, I will do, and I'll lose less sleep than I did when I heard that poor Cilla Black had been burgled.
To paraphrase Muad'Dib, Long Live The Griefers!!!! 
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Or'Chan
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.08.13 04:07:00 -
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that's a good article. Part of what I like about eve is that it's a rather simple interface, but a really, really complicated game. (if you want it to be)
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Amarria Black
Clan Anthraxx
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Posted - 2007.08.13 04:19:00 -
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Originally by: Or'Chan
that's a good article. Part of what I like about eve is that it's a rather simple interface, but a really, really complicated game. (if you want it to be)
EVE is a sliding-scale difficulty game in almost every facet. Want easy combat? Fit some sort of guns on some sort of ship, target something, mash F1-Fwhatever, wait. Want hardcore combat? The numbers are there to a disgusting number of significant digits, min/max to your heart's content. Same thing with economics, travel, manufacturing, etc.
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XenoPagan
Enterprise Estonia
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Posted - 2007.08.13 11:15:00 -
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a case of overanalyzing.
I play games to have fun sometimes
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Micheal Dietrich
Cynical Cartel
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Posted - 2007.08.13 16:51:00 -
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Originally by: Arron S
I play games because everyone wants to drink and does not want to do anything else.
Agreed. I remember at once point looking at friends myspace pages and every single one of them mentioned that they liked the outdoors. Yet everytime I asked them if they wanted to go camping or hiking or horseback riding or anything outdoors they either didn't have the money, time, or just didnt feel like it.
And yet they're all at the bar every weekend all weekend so I'm guessing when they said they like the outdoors they meant out on the balcony of the bar.
My drinking days are over and I enjoy waking up every morning not wanting to puke and being able to remember what I did the night before.
I find this game much more enjoyable than being in a bar watching the room spin around me.
although I do miss billards. Haven't played that in almost 2 years now I think.
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Posted - 2007.08.13 16:58:00 -
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Originally by: Arron S
I play games because everyone wants to drink and does not want to do anything else.
Agreed. I remember at once point looking at friends myspace pages and every single one of them mentioned that they liked the outdoors. Yet everytime I asked them if they wanted to go camping or hiking or horseback riding or anything outdoors they either didn't have the money, time, or just didnt feel like it.
And yet they're all at the bar every weekend all weekend so I'm guessing when they said they like the outdoors they meant out on the balcony of the bar.
My drinking days are over and I enjoy waking up every morning not wanting to puke and being able to remember what I did the night before.
I find this game much more enjoyable than being in a bar watching the room spin around me.
although I do miss billards. Haven't played that in almost 2 years now I think.
Too right. Most people at my university jsut want to get ****ed every night. Fair enough, but that gets old real quick, the funny thing is that these same wastes of space give me a funny look whenever I tell them about my hobbies, apparently computer games, writing and being a cameraman to film uni events are 'sad' 
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Tarminic
Black Flame Industries
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Posted - 2007.08.13 16:59:00 -
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Originally by: Amarria Black
Originally by: Or'Chan
that's a good article. Part of what I like about eve is that it's a rather simple interface, but a really, really complicated game. (if you want it to be)
EVE is a sliding-scale difficulty game in almost every facet. Want easy combat? Fit some sort of guns on some sort of ship, target something, mash F1-Fwhatever, wait. Want hardcore combat? The numbers are there to a disgusting number of significant digits, min/max to your heart's content. Same thing with economics, travel, manufacturing, etc.
One of the things I like about EVE, however, is that combat is too unpredictable to min-max. In addition, min-maxing is only capable with a truly massive wallet, so by maximizing a single ship's abilities you have to invest much much more - an extra 500% investment for an extra 5% capabilities. Even so, you can't control many factors in combat like the enemy forces, how many they'll bring, what they'll fit, etcetera, and it's impossible to create a cookie-cutter setup that's impossible to defeat. Your 1-billion carrier can be rendered useless by a single Celestis fitted with the appropriate ECM, a well-tanked battleship with smartbombs, or a group of sniping battleships with e-war support.
It's a big part of the reason I play EVE vs. other MMOs.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.13 17:30:00 -
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I play computer games because I'm board, and it's generally better than TV.
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Sismar
Minmatar
Ordem dos Templarios
Pax Atlantis
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Posted - 2007.08.14 01:43:00 -
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the answer is simple, i play games because they are interactive 
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DirtyHarry
Caldari
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.14 01:58:00 -
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i play games to pwn n00bs
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