# What do you think of ganking? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-ganking/487734 "2025-05-28T13:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Sere\_O\_Asis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sere_o_asis/32/374997_2.png) [@Sere\_O\_Asis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sere_O_Asis)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-ganking/487734/5 "2025-05-28T17:08:49Z")
@Ian_Zhang I’ve written about this more than once, so I’m just going to link an earlier post of mine that addressed your question: > [@Ian\_Zhang](#): > > There must be a reason for why it exist. > [@Nerf Ganking Megathread](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/nerf-ganking-megathread/299004/7474): > > It’s stated here, back in 2005: we often piss people off, but it’s a necessary evil with PvP games, you always have to be on your guard for imbalance and as a result, we lose a lot of customers for it. —Nathan Richardsson, senior producer on the EVE project in early 2004 Mr. Richardsson unambiguously calls EVE Online a pvp game. Full article here: [Interview: Evolution and Risk: CCP on the Freedoms of EVE Online](https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/interview-evolution-and-risk-ccp-on-the-freedoms-of-eve-online)@Gix_Firebrand does have some justification for his position on pvp being a cor… My post is from a thread back in 2021. It references an article written 2005, if I recall correctly. As referenced, in the article, the original developers of EVE were pvpers. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-ganking/487734)._