# Why do EVE players take this game so serious? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874 "2025-04-01T20:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Zaera\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zaera_keena/32/449938_2.png) [@Zaera\_Keena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zaera_Keena)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/171 "2025-05-20T19:46:26Z")
> [@Aiko\_Danuja](#): > > Have you tried just playing the game? Nope, Swing Chicken hasn’t even undocked yet ---
**Author:** ![Swing\_Vote](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/swing_vote/32/444813_2.png) [@Swing\_Vote](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Swing_Vote)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/172 "2025-05-20T20:18:21Z")
> [@Zaera\_Keena](#): > > Swing Chicken * * * ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/7/c/1/7c153e1163266eee8eabe4a89ebcdfde918117b7.jpeg) * * * ---
**Author:** ![Zaera\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zaera_keena/32/449938_2.png) [@Zaera\_Keena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zaera_Keena)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/173 "2025-05-20T20:56:27Z")
To be honest, Zaera sees herself as ![zaera](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/8/f/1/8f13dbb8e501c0d6b8a1e5a931353046063169af.jpeg) but when concorded, more like ![mad zombie](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/5/6/7/5673fe54517227ab3143878dfb2a6dcfee3eaf30.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Denyial](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/denyial/32/426393_2.png) [@Denyial](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Denyial)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/174 "2025-05-20T21:11:22Z")
I hate how much i like this game…that i suck at playing. ---
**Author:** ![Swing\_Vote](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/swing_vote/32/444813_2.png) [@Swing\_Vote](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Swing_Vote)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/175 "2025-05-20T21:13:01Z")
Pretty 😍 ---
**Author:** ![Gloria\_Exercitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gloria_exercitus/32/509735_2.png) [@Gloria\_Exercitus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gloria_Exercitus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/176 "2025-05-20T21:27:25Z")
> [@Aiko\_Danuja](#): > > Have you tried just playing the game? Nooo…you can’t reveal on the forums the mystic secret that philosophers have spent 4,000 years trying to unravel ! ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/178 "2025-05-21T01:12:13Z")
Has this thread has become the unofficial “flag me” achievement thread? ---
**Author:** ![Swing\_Vote](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/swing_vote/32/444813_2.png) [@Swing\_Vote](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Swing_Vote)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/179 "2025-05-21T01:15:10Z")
> [@Arthur\_Aihaken](#): > > flag me More like, “gag me” thread… ---
**Author:** ![Vokan\_Narkar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vokan_narkar/32/326293_2.png) [@Vokan\_Narkar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vokan_Narkar)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/180 "2025-05-21T23:52:41Z")
> [@QuakeGod](#): > > There is a bit of skill involved in gate camps. You will usually catch the unprepared, but not much more than that. Just like ganking in high sec, success depends on your target being unprepared, AFK, or just stupid. That used to be the case before abyssal modules and other mechanics such as extended warp scram range and because the sub 2 seconds instalock wasn’t well-known and abused mechanic. These days gatecamps are even multiboxed by one player and they have sub 2sec instalock and at least 26km scram + web. What can you do now if you don’t have cloak against this? Multibox a scout in capsule and scout every gate in lowsec you jump to? I wouldn’t really call that a counterplay… ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/181 "2025-05-22T07:48:53Z")
Avoid low-sec like the plague and stay in high-sec. Then scratch your head when low-sec complains about the lack of content, demands buffs to ganking and advocates for more removal of high-sec content (missions, mining, PI, manufactuting) to force high-sec players into low-sec. ---
**Author:** ![Inxentas\_Ultramar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/inxentas_ultramar/32/385922_2.png) [@Inxentas\_Ultramar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Inxentas_Ultramar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/182 "2025-05-22T09:17:12Z")
I once took it seriously as well. Mainly because we had about 40 people in our group and we managed to achieve something. We had some rivals, some friends, and a lot of fun while it lasted. We took it seriously because it was one of the few video games that scratched a particular itch. Sort of a “dasein in space” I guess. Our place _felt like ours even though it wasn’t_, while other games managed to achieve the opposite. That was special. And worth logging in for. ---
**Author:** ![Zaera\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zaera_keena/32/449938_2.png) [@Zaera\_Keena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zaera_Keena)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/183 "2025-05-22T09:29:11Z")
> [@Swing\_Vote](#): > > What a sad day… Why so serious? Let your hair down…pop a monkey…have some fun. ![wink-harley-quinn](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/0/d/4/0d429201ec6c177016c0e061ae67ad2adb23e7b2.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Swing\_Vote](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/swing_vote/32/444813_2.png) [@Swing\_Vote](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Swing_Vote)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/184 "2025-05-22T13:29:39Z")
> [@Zaera\_Keena](#): > > pop a monkey What is this madness? Some people actually believe that we EVEolved from them bad boys! * * * 🐒 🐵 🙈 🙉 🙊 🦧 🍌 * * * ---
**Author:** ![Vokan\_Narkar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vokan_narkar/32/326293_2.png) [@Vokan\_Narkar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vokan_Narkar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/185 "2025-05-22T20:24:54Z")
> [@Arthur\_Aihaken](#): > > Avoid low-sec like the plague and stay in high-sec. Then scratch your head when low-sec complains about the lack of content, demands buffs to ganking and advocates for more removal of high-sec content (missions, mining, PI, manufactuting) to force high-sec players into low-sec. You are mistaken. Low sec players have plenty of content and they don’t come to highsec to gank. That is domain of nullsec players. I know no ganker who is also pirating in lowsec. At least on more frequent basis like hotdropping. Lowsec hunting requires too much effort that they barely have time to go elsewhere. Also who is demanding any buffs to ganking??? Quote it. ---
**Author:** ![Swing\_Vote1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/swing_vote1/32/461282_2.png) [@Swing\_Vote1](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Swing_Vote1)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/186 "2025-05-22T21:27:24Z")
> [@Vokan\_Narkar](#): > > buffs to ganking??? Just a lot of crying about how hard it is to kill afk miners. ---
**Author:** ![Zaera\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zaera_keena/32/449938_2.png) [@Zaera\_Keena](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zaera_Keena)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/187 "2025-05-23T00:20:04Z")
**Translation:** Your AFK miner got killed, you took it hard and cried alot . ![200w (1)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/8/c/5/8c56bd449fc14786f0cfd6f7e6c77184de3fc279.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Swing\_Vote1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/swing_vote1/32/461282_2.png) [@Swing\_Vote1](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Swing_Vote1)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/188 "2025-05-23T00:35:35Z")
> [@Zaera\_Keena](#): > > Translation In reverse. ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/189 "2025-05-23T05:26:26Z")
> [@Swing\_Vote1](#): > > In reverse. You cried a lot, mining was hard, then your AFK miner got killed? 🤔 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Vekku\_Dradis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vekku_dradis/32/463196_2.png) [@Vekku\_Dradis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vekku_Dradis)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/190 "2025-05-23T06:21:59Z")
> [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](#): > > I don’t pay Oh? Is your time worth nothing to you? You certainly _do_ pay if you are spending your time playing EvE. I pay money to ccp because the things I enjoy doing ingame require that. If you are having fun on no-money mode then, cool…but you are indeed paying. ---
**Author:** ![Vokan\_Narkar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vokan_narkar/32/326293_2.png) [@Vokan\_Narkar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vokan_Narkar)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/191 "2025-05-23T06:25:19Z")
> [@Zaera\_Keena](#): > > Your AFK miner got killed, you took it hard and cried alot . It is always like this. Their AFK mining barge/exhumer or AFK hauling Tayra gets ganked. They cry and they are mad and so they go to forums and start spamming anti-ganking threads over and over and argue about 100% safe space so they can never ever endure that pain again. Some even become a kill mail whores and sit next to the station camping gankers or at Uedama gate for hours every day to get on the killmail on the ship that is going to be destroyed anyway thinking they are achieving anything. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874.md?page=6) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874.md?page=8)