# Slowing down the decline of EVE **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/slowing-down-the-decline-of-eve/189205 "2019-09-11T14:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 74
**Author:** ![Ghost\_O\_Mo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ghost_o_mo/32/376789_2.png) [@Ghost\_O\_Mo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ghost_O_Mo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/slowing-down-the-decline-of-eve/189205/74 "2019-09-12T02:33:00Z")
This game used to be like diving into a river of chaos… It was somewhere between a comedy roast, an MMO, and true pandemonium… And that was what I liked about it. Noobs would learn to mine and do basics in a spawn system and by the time they got to the profession systems (where the tutorial agents sent you) they were doing their tutorials while watching fleet fights, smack talk in local, and being romances by criminals of many variants. It was remarkably social… for both better and worse. As a noob, I banded together with other noobs to jet can mine… because the mechanics demanded it. And I dreamed of the day I could help kill the criminals I saw infesting the system. Here is an article I wrote a couple years ago about the decline of emergent gameplay. > [@Note from retired criminal](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/note-from-retired-criminal/21780): > > Dear CCP, As one of the many purveyors of crime and anti-social behaviors who frequented this game in the days before “Retribution” and the subsequent safening of of high-sec, I’m writing from a state of retirement (playing other games). As far as I know, the majority of your player base still has no desire to live in null. I think the statistic was 70% living in high sec before I left. I’m betting that hasn’t changed. I still have no desire to go back to nullsec for so many reasons. I tri… The new player experience is more like training for a job now. It’s straight forward, safe and distractionless. Boring as crap, if you ask me. I used to love this game. No idea how anyone plays in highsec these days… nothing happening, social or otherwise, system after system. Game died years ago for me and my ilk. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/slowing-down-the-decline-of-eve/189205)._