Your analogy doesn’t really stack up, Eve is a video game, you pay money in exchange for fun. We’re all different, but for me, if that fun is removed I simply stop paying and find another game, recently that has been Albion Online. You obviously can’t just find another real life if your current life sucks!
I would also add that mining communities were supported when their careers disappeared where I come from, government financial support and total coverage of all university tuition fees so they could retrain. I don’t see CCP allowing free respecs!
Just join Faction Warfare, it is not affected by scarcity at all… all you need is a T1 frigate or destroyer to start and make good ISK via LP. The training need for this activity is slim and if you join the right, the Minmatar side you can also have a lot of fun too.
Yeah and a lot of those miners took to the streets and fought the police, so much so that the then PM wanted to bring in the army to take over the pit estates in the North and stem the violence, that PM was told it would bring the country very very close to a civil war and the idea was scrapped. At the same time the unions all came out on strike in solidarity including the teachers had many days off school, even the pupils came out on strike at my school finger up at the gov and we all walked out. was a fifth former at the time.
Sometimes change comes at a severe cost, I’m not so certain CCP can weather their changes, I suppose it depends on the players solidarity doesn’t it, because at this point in time a lot of players seem to be on strike.
Hmm, so I hopped on my indy alt ingame, after months on a “break”, I left just prior the industrial nerfs.
He was based in Dammalin, a well known Hi sec industrial spot; at doorstep with FW lowsec.
I have to say, coming back to a nearly empty local and empty alliance channel, at peak time, in Hisec, in a system that used to be booming with activity, did not feel right … at all …
Something is really going wrong somewhere.
No one will ever tell me that all these people weren’t needed and had to be ridden of for the good health of the game.
I’ll be damned if this isn’t clearly deliberate game suicide.
It was always work, you just didn’t think of it that way until now.
None of your actions or activities have changed in any dramatic manner. A few extra components here, a mineral recalculation there, but your activities are generally the same as they’ve always been. You’re only re-framing EVE as work now because you need to rationalize away in a way that makes you feel good the fact that your in-game income might have decreased by some degree while you failed to adapt to the changes.
And what you find fun in a video game is the equivalent of working a second job?
I think what he meant is that it takes much longer to get to the fun parts now than it used to.
And some people, actually, most people … don’t have a +1 or +2 hours extra a day to give, just to get to the fun parts, just because CCP ■■■■■■ up more than a few times in their history and are trying to make up for it now with this thing.
Do people have the patience to put up with a decade of mistakes ? Nope.
Should they have to pay for it with more of their personal time invested ? Triple that Nope.
I’m also completely satisfied by outside observers reading this exchange and immediately understanding what just happened here. Hint: I’m not the one who’s going to end up looking bad. And I do remember how you placed a lot of emphasis on behaving in a way that would result in “being taken seriously” in your prior posts, so…
Yeah, I really don’t understand why you people won’t just quit the game. If it feels like someone’s cutting into your side with an ammonia-covered steak knife every time you interact with or discuss the game, why continue punishing yourself like this? You’ll feel better and be healthier if you simply stop. There’s tens of thousands of games out there, and surely you can find a few that cater to your needs better than EVE Online can? Go and play something you’ll actually enjoy, and leave EVE to those who like to challenge themselves. It really is that easy.
