Yes there is no profit from doing this, but we don’t care. I mean, there are two kinds of gankers:
Those who gank to earn profit to fund another activity elsewhere or to fund further ganking if that is all they do.
Those who are farming ISK or just paying cash to fund the ganking. (Which includes regular corp/alliance members who does not need to farm ISK as they get free ships from SRP or bounty payouts for killing stuff - utimately someone has to grind for those ships to be granted/money to be paid.)
This is PvP game, so why is it suprising, that some players are spending their wealths to destroy other players’ ships?
What’s surprising to me is that CCP declared “having fun” is griefing. You have to have a profit motive or else “[morally] bad player”. Which is kind of against the whole idea of video games in the first place.
If I want to unprofitably blow up spaceships and shout “Yeeee-hawww!” while doing it and cackling like a raving lunatic, and having fun all the while, CCP’s blog post basically goes:
“Well we’re in bed with the ISK min-maxing farmers, what you’re doing is griefing because you suck at making ISK from PVP, here’s the elitist PVP gate, and you fail to meet the bar, we don’t care that you’re having fun, you’re now a morally bad player griefer.”
In my mind CCP is actively hostile to the idea of fun.
I gank, and some times the miner has isk with him… sometimes not. My activity allows me to fund further ganks no matter if they are blingy or not. And I have fun with it.
All my activities in EVE are for fun. But… probably ganking is almost (wardecing too?) the only PVP activity which allows you to fund further PVP. And thats a problem CCP should (but will never) adress. What about those poor Lowsec pirates who have to do moon mining to fund their piracy? Imagine having to mine to have fun. They should be having fun to have more extra fun with another activity!
Or imagine the poor nullsec “PVPers” having to kill rats in belts during the week… to join some F1 fleet during the weekend… and some times they dont even find a target!. Thats not a game I would like to play.
But I also understand miners… when I salvage the miners wreck in order to follow CCPs anti-griefing protocols… I want to do it in perfect safety and relax. I hope CCP introduces some kind of anti-angry-miners bubble when using my t2s salvaging drones!
Its rhetoric… I know exactly why gankers gank an orca or a day 1 venture, just like I know why players make PK in low level respawn areas in other MMO. Its interesting because after the kill they run into the help channels for paste the killmail.
You’re what’s wrong with this game. Too lazy to work for anything and you actually enjoy grieving people. I hope you find a better way…without docking or tethering …
They love to pat each other on the back. Clearly anti-social behavior.
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