to put it simply: PvP= fun making ISK for PvP = not fun
I'm not sure why I always take breaks. I think its cause I'm a rolling stone. I love to play different games.
This is one issue I had mentioned above. It's me own fault. Just couldnt find a way to make ISK for me that was super dupa fun.
I really do love many ideas behind the game and got my char to a nice point where he flies lots of cool stuff. Pretty much got everything I wanted when I was a nub (battleship with t2 heavies, covert ops, and other various pvp ships)
Then you guys have all kinds of views here, so now in the update, and upcoming expansion next year of the game, EVE seems to have a big good move. Will those guys who quit come back to play?
i really want to quit, ive been with it since beta and well it has become boring and repetitive. i got 2 characters close to 70 mil skill points assets and isk worth over 3 billion easily. if i could sell the characters for cash i would quit but i cant so i guess i cant quit
Two things made me take a (more or less) permanent break from the game.
Lack of a real avatar. Ships are the equivalent of armor. Call me silly but having nothing to connect myself to the world hurt my immersion.
Lack of a good organisation. Perhaps I was unlucky, but I didn't manage to find a group of people that would raise the social aspect of the game. So when the game itself started become stale, I left.
1) Gate camping. Being killed during session changes is the worst excuse for PvP ever.
2) Due to gate camping and many other things, it is almost a requirement to have at least two accounts. You are extremely limited as a player with just one account. As you have seen on this thread, some people have MANY accounts. When the first piece of advice you get about a multitude of things is "roll another account," something is wrong, in my opinion.
3) Solo play outside of high sec space is practically impossible. Solo play inside high sec is extremely boring.
4) Lag.
5) Boredom while waiting for skills that can take a month or more to train.
Many guys have quit EVE, wonder how do you think of it? because of the removing of ghost training? by the way, do you guys buy isk online ?
I think a few have said this. I leave to come back. It's usually because I get nailed in to a corner and can't move forward on something.
Buy ISK online? No. They all spam noob channels, they all spam local. They can all go to hell. GTCs work fine.
Ghost training? It will take alot of alt subs from Eve. The know that at CCP. They hate it but they know it. It's thier problem, not mine. If I decide to cancel an account, ghost training won't make any difference one way or another.
I am reducing my active accounts from nine to 2-4, originally because of the unsubbed training nerf and lies and PR spin but additionally because of the missile nerf and a ninja change to faction standings that caused unexpected loss of faction standings in our POS corp, something that would cost 450 mil to hire a contractor to restore.
There are many lesser factors such as slow and unacceptable responses to petitions, ongoing UI bugs they never sem to be able to fix, other bugs that have persisted for years without being fixed while staff spend time adding new features and new bugs, POS mechanics that reek of unfinished work and dead-end design, and general mucking about with game mechanics with severe consequences affecting player investments of time and ISK. The T20 scandal in which a dev gave BPOs to friends and the abominable handling of that was my first heads-up that something was seriously wrong at CCP. Since then CCP has shown themselves to be distinctly ethically challenged in my opinion.
I will keep a hand in the game for various reasons but will no longer maintain nine paid accounts. I don't recommend Eve to anyone. The more heavily involved you get in Eve, the more likely you are to be bitterly disappointed sooner or later by the way CCP manages (or mismanages) the game.
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I'm not sure why I always take breaks. I think its cause I'm a rolling stone. I love to play different games.
This is one issue I had mentioned above. It's me own fault. Just couldnt find a way to make ISK for me that was super dupa fun.
I really do love many ideas behind the game and got my char to a nice point where he flies lots of cool stuff. Pretty much got everything I wanted when I was a nub (battleship with t2 heavies, covert ops, and other various pvp ships)
You never truely leave or quit Eveonline , am on break atm , been playing since feb 2004 .
best mmo i have ever played period.
wah~
thx for the post here!
Then you guys have all kinds of views here, so now in the update, and upcoming expansion next year of the game, EVE seems to have a big good move. Will those guys who quit come back to play?
i really want to quit, ive been with it since beta and well it has become boring and repetitive. i got 2 characters close to 70 mil skill points assets and isk worth over 3 billion easily. if i could sell the characters for cash i would quit but i cant so i guess i cant quit
Two things made me take a (more or less) permanent break from the game.
One word pretty much sums it up: BORING!
1) Gate camping. Being killed during session changes is the worst excuse for PvP ever.
2) Due to gate camping and many other things, it is almost a requirement to have at least two accounts. You are extremely limited as a player with just one account. As you have seen on this thread, some people have MANY accounts. When the first piece of advice you get about a multitude of things is "roll another account," something is wrong, in my opinion.
3) Solo play outside of high sec space is practically impossible. Solo play inside high sec is extremely boring.
4) Lag.
5) Boredom while waiting for skills that can take a month or more to train.
I think a few have said this. I leave to come back. It's usually because I get nailed in to a corner and can't move forward on something.
Buy ISK online? No. They all spam noob channels, they all spam local. They can all go to hell. GTCs work fine.
Ghost training? It will take alot of alt subs from Eve. The know that at CCP. They hate it but they know it. It's thier problem, not mine. If I decide to cancel an account, ghost training won't make any difference one way or another.
I am reducing my active accounts from nine to 2-4, originally because of the unsubbed training nerf and lies and PR spin but additionally because of the missile nerf and a ninja change to faction standings that caused unexpected loss of faction standings in our POS corp, something that would cost 450 mil to hire a contractor to restore.
There are many lesser factors such as slow and unacceptable responses to petitions, ongoing UI bugs they never sem to be able to fix, other bugs that have persisted for years without being fixed while staff spend time adding new features and new bugs, POS mechanics that reek of unfinished work and dead-end design, and general mucking about with game mechanics with severe consequences affecting player investments of time and ISK. The T20 scandal in which a dev gave BPOs to friends and the abominable handling of that was my first heads-up that something was seriously wrong at CCP. Since then CCP has shown themselves to be distinctly ethically challenged in my opinion.
I will keep a hand in the game for various reasons but will no longer maintain nine paid accounts. I don't recommend Eve to anyone. The more heavily involved you get in Eve, the more likely you are to be bitterly disappointed sooner or later by the way CCP manages (or mismanages) the game.