After reading this thread what comes to mind is a ton of people that don't get it putting a lot of effort into crying about it.

When I think of eve I'm just thankful that there is a game intense and deep enough to stay interesting for 5 years.  I expect the same will be true 5 years from now.

EVE is about patience and is 100% what you make of it.

If it's awesome, it's because you made your game that way. If it's boring ... well ... same rule applies.

right........

Originally posted by Dark-Asylum

right........

He is right.  If you lack vision eve probably DOES seem like watching paint dry.

Wondering if I'll ever find a reason to quit playing.

2+ years and CCP keeps finding ways to make the game exciting and fun w/o destroying the core game play.

A rare thing and something no other company has achieved IMO.

Originally posted by Kaisen_Dexx

 27 days 16 hours 43 minutes and 12 seconds

hahaha thats a good one since im actually on one of those (battlecruiser V)

when i think of eve:

Ginormous Wars, with not only pewpew but politics and negociations.

Pirates Smugglers Traders Miners Mercenaries Soldiers Empires Alliances Control Spy and best of all, its all player made

when u hear eve-online what comes in your mind? 

nerdy screensaver action

forced skill training times

boredom

goons

unlimited possibilities

goons

spread sheets in space

Spending 2 hours putting together my ship and armaments only to be ganked and pod killed while undocking from a space station. 

Originally posted by bartwart

Spending 2 hours putting together my ship and armaments only to be ganked and pod killed while undocking from a space station. 

Well... That comes under the heading of shit happens(shrug). It is a PvP game after all.  I personally stay in high sec, and I'm still with SWA after almost 4 years.  But I have had some clown in a frig attack my Rokh in a .8 system one time.  I just set back and watched the fireworks when Concord insta nuked them ^^ Eve is pretty much what you make of it.

or buy a few ships worth of parts, stockpile them, and save your fitting, you can fit ship after ship in under a second

4+ years of my life I'll never get back  or something to do while I watch my movie collection :P

Near-perfection, frankly.

My only misgivings about EVE also apply to most other MMOs, certainly all sandbox MMOs: repetitive missions and immensely stupid player-run empires that don't fit into the setting at all. Both are sad, inevitable consequences of a proper sandbox, I'm afraid.

Originally posted by kenrich

4+ years of my life I'll never get back  

LOL you could say that about any mmo.

They're life wasters.

Potential

Originally posted by Paincake

Potential

I think Vanguard has the copyright on that term.

mind numbingly boring.

i already have a job, I don't need a second one (especially one where I get to pay THEM). i also don't understand why people boast it has "politics and drama!", i get enough of that already, why in the hell would anyone PAY for it though?

Originally posted by Draccan

For me EVE is the game I really would like to love. I can't play it due to the space is empty (like space is lol) and the combat is too slow and there is too little to do pve wise and the pvp is really hard to excel in and the skill-system annoyed me (having to log in every few hours to change skill doesnt go well with my casual playing)..

But CCP is doing a great job with free expansions, something that impresses me. They have a single server, another thing that truly impresses me. And the game is very sandboxy. Cudos to CCP. Too bad I can't get into it.

Same here.  There are a lot of things about this game that make me want to love it; but, there are too many things with it that drive me up the wall.  I tried to get into it a few times; but, I could never settle.  I love Sci Fi related games and there really aren't any that come close to this game; but, this game is too rough for me.  I don't want to spend months trying to accumulate something that will be blown up in 5 minutes.  Seems like a lot of time gone to waste and nothing to show for it.  ='(

Laggy spreadsheets

Let me rebind the keys FFS!!

13 UK pounds a month for this!??!

So close yet so, so far...

Originally posted by donaldduck

 

Let me rebind the keys FFS!!

Your wish was granted some years ago.

Best MMO on the Market!

Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?

Originally posted by milesosmiles

i also don't understand why people boast it has "politics and drama!", i get enough of that already, why in the hell would anyone PAY for it though?

People pay for the chance to affect politics and large-scale drama, which they can't do in real life unless they're born into the proper social circles or make a lot of money.  It's called escapism.  

"when u hear eve-online what comes in your mind ?"

FALLING ASLEEP OUT OF BOREDOM.