# Former players! One line "why i've stopped playing" thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Out Of Pod Experience\ **Created:** [July 28, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263 "2017-07-28T14:15:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yellow\_parasol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yellow_parasol/32/10455_2.png) [@yellow\_parasol](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/yellow_parasol)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/1 "2017-07-28T14:15:34Z")
I know, i likely won’t reach many, but it’s well worth a try and i have no other means of reaching any of them. Really curious about this. I’m not even talking about recent times only. I’m talking about the last ten years. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![ISD\_Chanisa\_Nemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/isd_chanisa_nemes/32/11843_2.png) [@ISD\_Chanisa\_Nemes](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ISD_Chanisa_Nemes)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/2 "2017-07-28T15:43:28Z")
I’ve moved this topic to Out of Pod Experiences. ---
**Author:** ![Julie\_Morano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/julie_morano/32/7341_2.png) [@Julie\_Morano](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Julie_Morano)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/3 "2017-07-28T18:40:02Z")
Well… I got emails promising that drinking apple cider vinegar could lose me 60 pounds, could get a six pack sitting on the couch, that some little pill could give me a permanent h\*\*\* on and that desperate Russian women wanted to date me… so I drank the vinegar, ate the pill, sat on the couch and moved to Russia for six months 😛 ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_parasol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yellow_parasol/32/10455_2.png) [@yellow\_parasol](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/yellow_parasol)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/4 "2017-07-28T19:59:07Z")
that’s a long line, but a good reason. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Chan\_aar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chan_aar/32/377560_2.png) [@Chan\_aar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Chan_aar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/5 "2017-07-28T20:04:52Z")
The most common reasons I get from people that quit are (in no particular order) too expensive lack of content gankers ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_parasol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yellow_parasol/32/10455_2.png) [@yellow\_parasol](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/yellow_parasol)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/6 "2017-07-28T20:06:47Z")
serious question: you only, or mostly, know carebears? ---
**Author:** ![Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syeed_ameer_ali/32/411549_2.png) [@Syeed\_Ameer\_Ali](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Syeed_Ameer_Ali)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/7 "2017-07-28T20:10:09Z")
I’ve stopped several times. Now I’m back, obviously, or I wouldn’t be paying attention to EVE anymore. My reason every time - had better things to do, and only so many hours in a day. ---
**Author:** ![Elder\_Ozzian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elder_ozzian/32/19584_2.png) [@Elder\_Ozzian](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Elder_Ozzian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/8 "2017-07-28T20:24:00Z")
Repetative missions & wh grinding gets booring (need for more different missions or totally new content). Only blob pvp in w-space (wait for hours to get some action, and then end up getting pawned). K-space local reveals you even if you are cloaked (haven’t seen any low/null sec miners). Not enough pve-things to solo-explore (usually i find already cleared complexs). No walking in stations (to spend time in). Too expensive Plex (to keep playing) New content seemed to be only for the null-sec players (what about highsec carebears?). Jump portals needs cyno --\> alt account. Don’t get me wrong; I love Eve online. I played Dust514. I visited fanfest and all. But i feel that the game is going backwards (more null content & balancing and nothing meaningful for me) and it makes me sad. Therefore i’ve been playing Tetris while waiting to see when the WIS would be implemented and now - removal of CQ?! :,( ---
**Author:** ![Chan\_aar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chan_aar/32/377560_2.png) [@Chan\_aar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Chan_aar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/9 "2017-07-28T20:44:08Z")
Probably 75% - 25% Carebear - Pvp Reasons given to me are usually the same though from either species. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Sgt\_Ocker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sgt_ocker/32/270881_2.png) [@Sgt\_Ocker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sgt_Ocker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/10 "2017-07-28T21:17:06Z")
If you genuinely want to reach ex players who still interact with eve things, go to r/eve. Many of the regular posters there no longer actively play eve and most of them will be happy to tell you why… The most recent one i was involved in; An eve friend contacted me after having been away for close to a year. He was considering coming back, I told him he would be welcome. He spent the last of his isk and subbed one account for a month - 36 days later, I haven’t seen him for a week. I emailed him - His response was basically what I expected - Game is pretty boring right now, not much going on. Plex is too expensive, don’t have time for the time it takes to earn enough isk. He is a family man, wife and four kids. He played eve a few hours each night as an escape from, noisy kids, the wife and a 12 hour work day. Now he watches netflix and eve has lost yet another vet with over 10 years experience who has never been bitter or a trillionaire, he just liked logging in, joining fleets and killing things. You know, the stuff eve is about for many of us… ---
**Author:** ![Evette\_Lun](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/evette_lun/32/10770_2.png) [@Evette\_Lun](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Evette_Lun)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/11 "2017-07-28T21:57:46Z")
text game with 3d models to stare at and not really use ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Gorp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/linus_gorp/32/317333_2.png) [@Linus\_Gorp](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Linus_Gorp)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/12 "2017-07-31T16:44:14Z")
Haargoth disbanding BoB. But I was pretty much already on my way out, so I guess that’s just an excuse. ---
**Author:** ![Kosoku](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kosoku/32/11808_2.png) [@Kosoku](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kosoku)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/13 "2017-07-31T17:25:07Z")
I’ve been here since 2003 but did stop playing for few months from time to time. My longest hiatus was 3 years or so from 2014 to recently. My reasons for stopping was… 1. I had better things to do. 2. Got really butthurt by wrongly predicted market gambles. (Therefore losing lots of isk.) I probably have more reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Spookyjay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/spookyjay/32/72579_2.png) [@Spookyjay](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Spookyjay)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/14 "2017-08-01T11:17:14Z")
being forced into groups to do content with little reward. ---
**Author:** ![Khergit\_Deserters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/khergit_deserters/32/319315_2.png) [@Khergit\_Deserters](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Khergit_Deserters)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/15 "2017-08-08T00:22:56Z")
I ran out of time and attention and started just soloing. Painted myself into a repetitive corner. Nobody’s fault but mine. ---
**Author:** ![mkint](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mkint/32/14424_2.png) [@mkint](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/mkint)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/16 "2017-08-08T00:39:55Z")
The fun:suck ratio tipped over. I’ve already consumed as much fun as EVE has to offer, and now there’s just a whole lot of suck. I keep a loose eye on the forums, especially dev posts, to see if anything interesting is ever going to happen in EVE again, but I’m not feeling like it’s terribly likely. ---
**Author:** ![EURIPODES](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/euripodes/32/13129_2.png) [@EURIPODES](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/EURIPODES)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/17 "2017-08-08T14:46:45Z")
Just came back after 2 year break. I left because pvp wasn’t the adrenaline rush it once was. Killed a freighter full of tech 2 modules in lowsec with some corp mates. I invested my share wisely and no longer got the rush of flying my last ship with an empty wallet. On top of that I was getting pretty good at pvp. I became a fairly successful solo pilot who actually made isk pvp’ing. I would fight out numbered and out gunned against increasingly worse odds but eventually one day my hands just stopped shaking. But after 2 years away i am relieved to say that I now suck at eve again lol. I have had a few fights and though my hands didn’t shake, my heart was racing. 🙂 although yesturday i went to log in and my pc wouldnt start. If its the power supply i’ll be fine but if its the mobo or cpu i may not be back for a while v0v ---
**Author:** ![Khergit\_Deserters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/khergit_deserters/32/319315_2.png) [@Khergit\_Deserters](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Khergit_Deserters)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/18 "2017-08-13T00:44:23Z")
Cat on the keyboard! ---
**Author:** ![Gort\_Saline](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gort_saline/32/28248_2.png) [@Gort\_Saline](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gort_Saline)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/19 "2017-09-29T15:34:30Z")
I had to quit a couple times to take care of my wife and her Breast Cancer. She passed in May so I Just came back recently. So, So much has changed and I am in a horrible mood and I am not sure I will continue after 11 years. I am especially in a poor mood after this morning getting totally killed in Jerma at an Ice field by some one not NPC and I got instantly confused how this happened in Security area of.5. Is mining that dangerous now on high sec? Eh maybe it is my grief speaking; but EVE has changed a lot and I am not sure I like how it is changing. I am still deciding if I am going to quit all together. Maybe a leave of absence is in order again. You all are right Expensive to play when all a person wants to do is some mining and good company with mostly great people. ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Jameson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/markus_jameson/32/12581_2.png) [@Markus\_Jameson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Markus_Jameson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263/20 "2017-09-29T15:51:51Z")
Honestly if anything I would have thought ganking was at an all time low in hi sec? but that might just be me. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/former-players-one-line-why-ive-stopped-playing-thread/12263.md?page=2)