I created an account a long time ago, but never played it. I just ended my play in another game that claims to take inspiration from EVE. That game suffered from in-your-face blatant toxicity. I searched EVE with toxicity and found quite a bit.
Generally speaking, I don’t have a problem with toxicity. If people want to be toxic on forum, that’s fine. If people want to be toxic in game, that is still fine. I deal with them through circumnavigation using designed strategies. This is part of the fun.
One type of toxicity I cannot circumnavigate or counter is something that the game company itself engages in. Because they know where I am and what I am doing at all times, should they or their proxies/agents/bots decide to take me down, for profit or for any other reason, they could and there’s nothing I can do about it. There’s a degree of this in most F2P games, and I can understand the real life economic reasons for it. How noticeable is this a problem in EVE? Do you suffer frequent deaths from coincidences? Do you die often from things that are seemingly beyond normal game mechanics, but because it happened so quick, you assumed it to be your own mistake?
Comments and toxicities are welcome. I rather get bitten now than after I dip my toes in.
I am asking: do they? I would understand if they do, it’s a matter of degree I am concerned with. I would also understand if you don’t know if they do.
Unless you’re in some tiny game being written and run by like 2 guys with too much time on their hands, no real game company anywhere is even likely to be aware of your existence. Much less use special game mechanics to mess with you.
Either a weird way to start a troll thread, or one of the most paranoid takes on “things that happen in the game” I’ve ever read.
No, nobody at CCP will ‘take you down’. But yes, there will be many odd things ‘seemingly beyond normal game mechanics’ that you will die to, because you won’t understand what 3/4 of the actual game mechanics are for quite some time yet.
Going by steam charts, this game doesn’t look huge. Back in the days, I had no trouble with UO or WOW. No observed toxicity in those even when I didn’t know anything about their game mechanics.
I did cry early in UO when I got robbed. It was the first game I played where criminality was allowed and I was shocked. Once understood, they could rob me as much as they wanted. But they never did get much out of me.
Steam charts only counts players that use the Steam launcher to play EVE, which in and of itself is a minority, but even from those only the ones who haven’t switched to the standalone launcher yet, so the player numbers according to Steam charts is far from the actual numbers. Just a heads up.
Btw just FYI I’ve played through Steam for like two years and only recently switched to standalone (the upside of the Steam version is access to the Steam overlay the upside of the standalone is, well, it is standalone thus you don’t need to run Steam to run EVE).
In general to answer your question if you pay attention, do your research and use your brain you should be able to avoid most dangers without issue, may it be other players or NPCs. Never heard of the devs ever picking on anyone, unless you count the botters teleported to their doom, but I count that as a good thing. So unless you intend to bot or break the rules in general the devs / GMs should not bother you.
You vaguely talk about “toxicity”, but nowhere do you make it clear at all what exactly do you mean by that. So WTF are you even talking about to begin with?
This makes no sense at all and makes you look like a childish whiner. Again, WTF are you talking about?
So unless you intend to bot or break the rules in general the devs / GMs should not bother you.