EVE Online's MAJOR Flaw (How I RUINED The Game For Myself!)
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This is the story of how I ruined EVE Online for myself forever and managed to kill any interest I had in the game forever!
Alright I’m gonna try and keep this video fairly short and sweet because it’s definitely gonna divide opinions in the comments and seemingly contradict all the other pro-EVE videos I’ve done in the past, but basically EVE is (beep), and this is a cautionary tail about how I inadvertently managed to gimp myself into seeing the game for what it really is so that you can either avoid doing it or do it deliberately depending on whether you want to get in or out of EVE Online.
Over the past few months I’ve gone from seeing EVE Online as a great sandbox experience with a vast universe and a seemingly unending choice of stuff to do, to basically just seeing it for what it really is – A bunch of lifeless server nodes set on a map that’s too big for the amount of players in the world and an end-game experience that doesn’t really give players any reason to log in and engage with the world for more than a few minutes, normally just to make sure your skill queue’s still going.
On the surface EVE claims to offer something that no other game out there can match – Almost complete freedom to live your dream life in space, complete with all the trials and tribulations of the real world, and after years of investment into the new player experience including the good looking new player tutorial and the introduction of the Agency to help players find activities and event sites close by, they manage to fool a lot of people into thinking it’s the best thing since sliced bread…
The trouble is that facade slowly starts to shatter almost instantly once you finish the tutorial and career missions and get dropped into this huge world that you know nothing about, and immediately get faced with time-based skill restrictions and a complete lack of understanding about the basic mechanics of the game that the tutorial missions either get wrong or fail to mention entirely, like the tutorial mission that tells you to prevent an enemy ship from warping away and then just has you activate a webifier on them and nothing else, something that actually helps ships align and warp away faster if you don’t use a tackle module on them as well, and stuff like angular velocity and how to properly set up your overview so you can actually see what’s going on around you aren’t even mentioned at all, leaving it to the player corporations and communities to pick up the slack and teach the new players what’s what, and the brutal reality is that some new players manage to find their way but most of them don’t.
But that’s not what I’m here to talk about, EVE’s always had a brutal sink-or-swim experience for new players so that’s nothing new, and short of removing skillpoints altogether, the time-based skill training thing I mentioned, while encouraging new players to group up together in corporations is probably the best way to balance the 15 year veterans with the 1 month old greenhorns without ruining the game entirely.
What I really want to talk about though is the complete and total lack of any real end-game content no matter what you enjoy doing once you reach a certain point, which is something that I will admit has taken me years to achieve, but I think a lot of that is down to just me being a bit bad (git gud) and focussing more on pvp than simply making ISK.
Long story short – Once I got rich enough, the facad shattered, the game completely lost its appeal, and it became extremely apparent that beyond just making more money and then losing it either to gankers or in pvp, there’s really no reason to keep playing it at all unless you REALLY love staring at rocks or grinding rats all day...
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