Because when you have played the game for six months then you should be able to pilot a T1 Battleship. But if you do and you die once then expect spending an hour to get your shit together.
I mean this is a game and I should spend one hour after I die once to get back into the fray? Really? Yeah, no thanks.
And please dont be so white and black, the choices are not between WoWs no death penalty and this one. There is a huge gap inbetween. But ofcourse then the game would not be considered "hardcore" and Eve players would not be able to look down on people who does not want to spend the better part of their lives playing a computer game.
I don't understand the complaint. EvE's death penalty is not a deeply kept secret and is not unique amongst MMOs. I mean, we can see Darkfall and Mortal Online which, regardless of your opinion of those games, also has downtime after a death if you did not plan/prepare accordingly. Those are two newer games that have gone that route and there are various older games as well that we can look at that had death penalties whose effects varied depending on the preparation a player did.
It is not even a matter of hardcore so much as just another facet that makes the overall game work. Games such as WoW, which I currently play as well, do not have the same depth when it comes to the economics and crafting. As a result, dying and respawning over and over in a battleground/pvp zone/etc has little overall impact and is a suitable mechanic for how that game is designed.
So yeah, all said and done, it is a game and different people like varying degrees of effort in their game. CCP has decided to cater to a certain audience and that seems to be working reasonably well so far. I can understand you don't like the downtime that you perceive and there are other options out there that might suit your tastes a little better. Maybe you just aren't the target audience (not intended as a slight).
-mklinic
"Do something right, no one remembers. Do something wrong, no one forgets" -from No One Remembers by In Strict Confidence
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I don't understand the complaint. EvE's death penalty is not a deeply kept secret and is not unique amongst MMOs. I mean, we can see Darkfall and Mortal Online which, regardless of your opinion of those games, also has downtime after a death if you did not plan/prepare accordingly. Those are two newer games that have gone that route and there are various older games as well that we can look at that had death penalties whose effects varied depending on the preparation a player did.
It is not even a matter of hardcore so much as just another facet that makes the overall game work. Games such as WoW, which I currently play as well, do not have the same depth when it comes to the economics and crafting. As a result, dying and respawning over and over in a battleground/pvp zone/etc has little overall impact and is a suitable mechanic for how that game is designed.
So yeah, all said and done, it is a game and different people like varying degrees of effort in their game. CCP has decided to cater to a certain audience and that seems to be working reasonably well so far. I can understand you don't like the downtime that you perceive and there are other options out there that might suit your tastes a little better. Maybe you just aren't the target audience (not intended as a slight).
-mklinic
"Do something right, no one remembers.
Do something wrong, no one forgets"
-from No One Remembers by In Strict Confidence