You know typcially when someone leaves a game they make this long tirade post within the games official forum. They rail against the company, the game, the fan base and all that is associated with the game and speak as if they are an authority on all things and what they say needs to be listened to.
Well you will not find a post from em about my leaving EVE in the forums here or on the EVE site. I will not rail against all the game and call it evil and I do not think my opinion on this is the only viable one.
I will however take a moment to express my thoughts here, this is MY blog after all and I can do what I want.
First let me say I am not some noob that never got EVE. I have been playing almost 5 years, my fikrends in fact stand in awe since my typical game life span is more like 6 months at most. During that time I have through various characters started a number of corporations, some successful and some not. I have been elected leader of an alliance and been a part of a few others. I have mined until my blood was made of lava and done everything from mission running to faction warefare and outright PVP. There is not some aspect of this game I have not played.
During this time I have gradually observed that EVE has shifted over the years from a place that was a harsh universe to a pure griefer heaven. Now I did not decide to leave EVE because I was attacked, heck I can hold my own in PVP and enjoy a challenge lose more than an easy win. However there is a simple truth griefers rule the day in EVE.
You see even in the harshness of the real world there are some lines people do not step over, or seldom do, because the consequencies for those actions are long reaching. For example a person does not stick up a liquor store becuase doing so would mean jail time. Now take this same concept to EVE. The stick up in this case is some poor miner eecking out a living and the thug flips his can. A clearly illegal action. Yet the WORST the thug would suffer is the lose of a ship he can likely replace with an hours play time.
In the real world this is the equivelent of tell the liquor store theif that he loses his car but he can have a job with the city that will buy him a new car in an hour. Where is the harshness of this?
We talk about the harsh death penality for EVE but the truth is it is only harsh for a small group of people. The griefers do not care about the death lose as they know it is not all that hard to get back their ships. The simple truth is there is no real harsh penalty for being an ASS.
THAT is the reason I am leaving EVE. I like my games challenging, I like to have to work for what I get and have done so. However to see that some nub can come along and take away the effort of others and NEVER have to suffer a real penaltuy for that behavior, like I said griefer heaven.
Look at the examples we have of a single person ruining the game efforts of HUNDREDS of other players, the time and money they invested in the game gone in a moment to an ASS that will never have to pay in any way for the crime. Look at the people in Bob, Goonswarm and others where a sm,all group of single individual ruined the work of others.
Now I was not a part of either organization and will freely admit their demise did not hurt my feelings but the method was pure BS.
The purpose of a game is to escape reality for a bit and lose yourself in the fun of the game. However when the idea of fun for a small group is to torrment new players or attack people just for the thrill of it, griefing, and they have no penality for this behavior, in fact it is rewarded by the very game system, the fun disappears for the rest of us.
This is the simple truth that so many in the EVE community acknowledge but then ignore, this is a game for griefers. The idea of a sandbox game is great but the truly open sandbox like EVE takes the fun out of the game in the end and instead rewards people for being cruel. Imagine these same small jerks walking up to a gaming table and suddenly slapping all your minatures off the table. I do not know about you but I would get up and kick their ass. THAT is why they will not do it because they have a real consequence to pay for this action. Yet in EVE this happens and yes we can go blow up thier ship. However unless you are will to devote you entire play time to hunting them down, harrassing them relentlessly for months and stopping what you enjoy in the game they would likely feel they had to pay any consequence.
BTW if you did the above you could get banned from the game under it;'s very rules. It is okay for a jerk to ruin your play time but not for you to make him TRUELY pay for that ruining.
So at the end of the day I came to realize I had two things I could do, become an ASS in EVE or move on to other endeavors. I have enjoyed my time in EVE and referred more people than I can count to the game. I will not bash the game but I will no longer recommend it. I do not ask CCP to change the game in anyway, they are free to make the game the way they desire. However at the end of the day I want to enjoy my game and not play with little children that can act badly without repurcussions.
I concur!
I to played EvE for many years. I started playing in Dec '03 and played the greater part of the time until Mid '09. I did take a few breaks, most dirrectly related to the lack of repreccusion for poor social behaviors.
Mon May 17 2010 11:08AM ReportI agree 100%. Right now all I do in Eve is sit at stations and make money from manipulating the markets to pay my subscription fees. I never leave the station as it is simply not fun because the system of the game caters to griefers much more than to those choosing to be decent.
Thu May 20 2010 10:13AM ReportI have played Eve many times over as well... I find the game very fun, enjoyable, relaxing, and challanging. I log off as soon as I hear of a griefer in a system. Whether I have been in game for 5 min or 5 hours. It's just not fun to have all afternoons work destroyed by someone just being an ASS like you said. Sandbox games I think are going to be the new genre. There needs to be more rules in place for just out right griefers.
Fri May 21 2010 1:12AM ReportThe behavior is entrenched because the members of CCP themselves are involved and promote this. Remember the whole corruption and cheating scandal when CCP was caught playing favorites (and indirectly harming the rest of the player base that were in competition agains CCP's buddies)? There have been numerous other accusations some of which I know for a fact were true, despite CCP's denial, because people I knew were involved and the facts were not as CCP tried to paint them. The game is corrupt and full of griefing because CCP is corrupt and too hung up on playing "as one of the boys" rather than running their game fairly, impartially, and professionally.
Fri May 21 2010 1:15AM ReportI agree 100% game just changed to much over the years. I remember when problems with ore thieves etc was kinda rare. When you could go to low sec and not see people. That was alot more fun.
Fri May 21 2010 12:39PM ReportMMORPG.com writes:
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