Originally by: Whineroy

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It is one thing to be a "professional" player pirate in Eve and consider one's playing style to be one amongst many, that's just playing the game.

However, some pirates (I wouldn't even call them "pirates" but "gankers") seem to have desperate need to "win" over other humans (it has to be other humans, otherwise they would be playing a single-player game) and to "win" by any means possible. It isn't about the challenge of facing intelligent human foes instead of facing all-too-predictable stupid NPCs... No, it is only about "pwning" other humans while having minimal risk oneself. If Eve really was "only a game and nothing more" like some people insist, those gankers would get their easy-win kicks by playing some SP game with cheat codes or similar, just that they cannot feel that they "win" unless they know that other humans "lose".

At other end of spectrum are those "carebears" who consider their in-game property to be as valuable as RL property, and who throw temper tantrums at "stupid pirates" even when they lose their property to their own sheer stupidity (like hauling hundreds of millions in valuables through Caldari space while AFKing in T1 hauler)... Like gankers, such carebears have forgotten that this is a game but instead see Eve as somewhat an extension of RL.

Of course, both of these two kinds of extremist players never admit doing anything wrong, and instead keep blaming "cowardly carebears" or "stupid griefers" for everything that goes wrong. Basic psychology really, it is very hard if not impossible for a human to admit that he has done something wrong or is having problems.

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