I think it might be time...

Revthought · April 2010

I think it might finally be time for me to leave this wonderful game. And before anyone answers with the obligitory question--no you cannot have my stuff.

I am not leaving because of anything the game did. I don't think CCP sucks, and I'm not concerned with any incomming nerf. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. During the four years that I have played this game, CCP has demonstrated, to me at least, that it is the absolute best video game company around. CCP has really broken new conceptual grounds with EVE-online. They have created, for all intents and purposes, a virtual world. Set-up, of course with ground rules that ensure this game was going to be a capitalist distopia, in which the interactions of the human beings playing the game gave rise to a whole slew of institutional formations, norms and a common history.

I received a lot of joy from this game. I started playing in June of 2006--almost exactly 4 years ago. During that first 3 days of playing I took a trip into low-sec and got podded. I never looked back. I thought the entire experience was thrilling. After sending the pirate who podded me an evemail, we chatted. He gave me lots of advice that I ended up taking. At 4 days old I started my own pirate corp and moved to low-sec. Later my corporation, my baby, merged with the same corporation run by the man who was the first to kill me.

I did a lot over the years. Tried the 0.0 thing, found it boring, did some merc work and high-sec war-decs for awhile, but always seemed to come back to piracy. Then again, as the years went by the number of my alts increased so that I was never completely pigeoned into one thing.

Corporations and alliances broke up, but friendships never did. Over the past 2 years I've been flying with a great bunch of guys--they were, quite frankly, the best. We did our small gang pvping, and hardly ever lost. Remote repping our way into a 90% efficiency rating and victorious fights where we were often outnumbered 2 to 1. I really got to know these guys, befriend them, we click in a way that is difficult to explain.

And ultimately this is my downfall in eve. Over the last year all of my friends and corpmates have gone mostly inactive. Sure, I could move on, join another corp, but that's the thing--I don't want to. I am an old man as I approach my mid-30s and stuck in my ways. I don't want to have to build new friendships, learn new ways of doing things and earn the trust of others. I just don't. Really I cannot conceive of playing this game in any other way than I presently do, with any other people than the ones I used to.

And no, I don't want to solo. Being anything solo in an MMO is never much fun; besides which in eve solo-pvp has gotten very difficult as of late. So I think as my paid year comes to an end, I will not re-subscribe, and thus bid adieu to the best MMO there is. To all you thinking of starting this game, of giving it ago, you should. Its worth it, and you might just discover as much joy in this game as I have.

Lateris · April 2010

So Carl is making you quit! Before you quit go to sghq.com They have a "great "active Eve portal.

ben_jii · April 2010

Sounds like you got the full experience from the game! Your in-game adventures almost read like a movie synopsis. It is exciting to hear about these type of interactions happening within a game world despite the fact that I probably won't play EVE much more than the 30 minutes I did with the trial.

I have had some of the same seemingly unreproducable experiences in MMOs as well and I also don't plan on making anymore in-game friends. But you rarely are looking to make new friends when one comes along so don't give up on having a simular time in a future game.

Kyleran · April 2010

Originally posted by Revthought

I think it might finally be time for me to leave this wonderful game. And before anyone answers with the obligitory question--no you cannot have my stuff.

I am not leaving because of anything the game did. I don't think CCP sucks, and I'm not concerned with any incomming nerf. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. During the four years that I have played this game, CCP has demonstrated, to me at least, that it is the absolute best video game company around. CCP has really broken new conceptual grounds with EVE-online. They have created, for all intents and purposes, a virtual world. Set-up, of course with ground rules that ensure this game was going to be a capitalist distopia, in which the interactions of the human beings playing the game gave rise to a whole slew of institutional formations, norms and a common history.

I received a lot of joy from this game. I started playing in June of 2006--almost exactly 4 years ago. During that first 3 days of playing I took a trip into low-sec and got podded. I never looked back. I thought the entire experience was thrilling. After sending the pirate who podded me an evemail, we chatted. He gave me lots of advice that I ended up taking. At 4 days old I started my own pirate corp and moved to low-sec. Later my corporation, my baby, merged with the same corporation run by the man who was the first to kill me.

I did a lot over the years. Tried the 0.0 thing, found it boring, did some merc work and high-sec war-decs for awhile, but always seemed to come back to piracy. Then again, as the years went by the number of my alts increased so that I was never completely pigeoned into one thing.

Corporations and alliances broke up, but friendships never did. Over the past 2 years I've been flying with a great bunch of guys--they were, quite frankly, the best. We did our small gang pvping, and hardly ever lost. Remote repping our way into a 90% efficiency rating and victorious fights where we were often outnumbered 2 to 1. I really got to know these guys, befriend them, we click in a way that is difficult to explain.

And ultimately this is my downfall in eve. Over the last year all of my friends and corpmates have gone mostly inactive. Sure, I could move on, join another corp, but that's the thing--I don't want to. I am an old man as I approach my mid-30s and stuck in my ways. I don't want to have to build new friendships, learn new ways of doing things and earn the trust of others. I just don't. Really I cannot conceive of playing this game in any other way than I presently do, with any other people than the ones I used to.

And no, I don't want to solo. Being anything solo in an MMO is never much fun; besides which in eve solo-pvp has gotten very difficult as of late. So I think as my paid year comes to an end, I will not re-subscribe, and thus bid adieu to the best MMO there is. To all you thinking of starting this game, of giving it ago, you should. Its worth it, and you might just discover as much joy in this game as I have.

Line made me smile, I'm old enough to be your father, you're just a kid to me.

But you are defintiely burned out.....take some time off, play some other games (they will disappoint you) and perhaps one day you'll feel the urge to return and make some new friends in game to experience a whole new set of adventures.

sadeyx · April 2010

wow! Seems like you've had a great experience.

I'm envious of people who stay so long with a certain product and after 4 years I dont think you owe anyone an explanation.

and yea.. dont sell your account or give your stuff away, in years to come you may want to come back or an old friend might ask you to come back.

Personally I usually sign-off from eve after 3/4 months of play... I just need time to regenerate, lol.

Good luck for the future o7

Felconian · April 2010

You will be back ....

We always come back.... The DT's ..will get you .... when your hands start shaking and you breakout in cold sweats at night shouting... PRIMARY.... !

You will need your fix ......dont sell your stuff ...take 3 months off ...its all the time i give you ..then you will be crying to come back...

...!

gunnythok · April 2010

Originally posted by Felconian
You will be back ....

We always come back.... The DT's ..will get you .... when your hands start shaking and you breakout in cold sweats at night shouting... PRIMARY.... !

You will need your fix ......dont sell your stuff ...take 3 months off ...its all the time i give you ..then you will be crying to come back...

...!

Ditto

Dolmong · April 2010

Well, if you going to play another MMO, you are making new friends anyway ... right ???

so ... Why bothered joining another corp in EVE online ??:p

Zeletor · April 2010

Originally posted by Kyleran
... you are defintiely burned out.....take some time off, play some other games (they will disappoint you) and perhaps one day you'll feel the urge to return and make some new friends in game to experience a whole new set of adventures.

QFT. Take some time off, you'll be back, and EVE will be a rather different game by the time you do, or at least have new things that you haven't done before and that players are exploring. Safe flying until then

(P.S., if you'd like to be disappointed sooner rather than later, I recommend trying World of WarCraft, )

Codenak · April 2010

A long term eve subrscription comes with an invisible bungee cord, take the time, enjoy the real world, the cord will drag you back sometime

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