I didn’t start playing Eve Online so that I can feel like an Eve Online player. I started playing Eve Online because (well, spaceships but) I wanted to feel like a Sci-fi tribesman
To come back to forums for the first time after a long while, and come across this thread and this sentiment, feels so relatable. It’s basically what I said when I was on the verge of retiring after having played for 10 years between 2007-2017. There was a shift somewhere around 2013 when CCP clearly decided maintaining an immersive universe led by storytelling and player-to-player relations was going to take a backseat to monetisation, PVE content and solo-related gameplay. And that decision has stripped the game of a lot of what used to make it unique and saw entire books - that now give me so much nostalgia when I look at them on my shelf - come out about its universe and player/corp/alliance-made lore.
