It isn’t for everybody, but if you’ve been to EVE Online events, you will see groups showing up and partying together, all wearing a corp or alliance shirt or hat or other item that marks them a part of a particular club within the game. So you join that corporation or that faction or that alliance and work together and get to know each other and bonds are formed. Those that stay tend to be people who not only find their niche in the game, but find others to share it with. This drives a lot of people away from the game. EVE Online as a game tends to be harsh, complex, and unforgiving. So why don’t we all just fuck off already?įirst is community. We know people get mad at CCP and we know some people walk away, but many longer term players stick around, paying the subscription and logging in, even as we complain over and over about the state of the game, the direction the company is taking it, and whatever they have done lately to wreck someone’s play style. So somebody is always saying, “EVE is dying” because of this or that.įirst documented occurrence of “EVE is Dying” But I suppose that comes with the sandbox nature of the game, which gives us some bizarrely specific play styles. You can find people willing to die on some of the most bizarrely specific hills. It certainly applies to EVE Online though, after 20 years any accurate representation would be a multi-dimensional continuum of factions and beliefs. I wish I could find it again as it is applicable to most online titles. The other day I saw a graph on Twitter representing the various segments of Star Citizen players, which ranged from those who fully believe everything the company announces and will fight all criticism to those who believe it is a complete scam and who will go out of their way to denounce any company statement, with several layers in between. I guess we start with the fact that the player base is hardly unified on the state of the game. What keeps us going? Sunk cost fallacy? A victory of hope over experience? Some form of digital masochism? If we’re unhappy with the state of EVE Online, if we think CCP is going down the wrong path, if they’re raising the prices, wrecking the economy, and won’t give us much beyond vague, hand-waving promises for the future, why are we still subscribed? Nothing speaks louder than taking your wallet and spending your money elsewhere. And it is an absolutely legitimate question.

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