# 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:** 8
**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, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/192 "2025-05-23T06:59:05Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > mining was hard I’m not a miner. Sorry. ---
**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, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/193 "2025-05-23T07:02:52Z")
You are not anything. ---
**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, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/194 "2025-05-23T07:09:52Z")
> [@Zaera\_Keena](#): > > You are not A boot licker, like you. ---
**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, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/195 "2025-05-23T07:17:52Z")
Careful, I bite ---
**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, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/196 "2025-05-23T10:48:36Z")
> [@Zaera\_Keena](#): > > I bite Sure buddy… ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/princess_rose_ivory/32/433985_2.png) [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Princess_Rose_Ivory)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/197 "2025-05-23T21:34:30Z")
> [@Vekku\_Dradis](#): > > Is your time worth nothing to you? _Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion, and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself the ultimate cost for perfect value._ I play here, I don’t work here. Have fun! ---
**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, 11:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/198 "2025-05-23T23:54:52Z")
Some people enjoy bluilding things. ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/199 "2025-05-24T04:49:51Z")
…What you said above completely supports my point…you know that and I am the one misunderstanding…right? ---
**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 24, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/200 "2025-05-24T12:11:27Z")
It’s called gas lighting. ---
**Author:** ![Rana\_Ash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rana_ash/32/374123_2.png) [@Rana\_Ash](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rana_Ash)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/201 "2025-05-24T17:41:43Z")
One is supposed to take this game seriously? ---
**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 24, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/202 "2025-05-24T17:57:20Z")
> [@Rana\_Ash](#): > > supposed to 100% yes! ---
**Author:** ![Aallin\_Gicquet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aallin_gicquet/32/510703_2.png) [@Aallin\_Gicquet](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aallin_Gicquet)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/203 "2025-05-24T20:16:52Z")
But if you are doing something you enjoy, is it really work.. However, if you are not paying for a sub out of your own pocket. And strictly plexing your sub. Then, yes, you are working. One way or the other you are paying. Either in time or money. While I appreciate that you do not necessarily see it that way. It is still true all the same. However if you are not plexing you account or paying out of pocket. Nor have ever bought plex out of pocket. Then yes you are simply playing. But as all games are time sinks. The nature of the beast. True of any game. Whether it is chess or some ancient game played in Mesopotamia to card games to any board game to our online games today, If you are striving for a goal. The in one sense you are working. Though maybe not for monetary gain. Which leads me back to my original sentence. if you are doing something you enjoy, is it really work.. That goes for any game or career/job one might have. When I worked in the textile mill. I ran a machine. That was next gen for sewing. It was windows driven and could sew any pattern that you could load into the windows program. For all those years. I did not consider myself really working as I was having fun running that machine. Again is it really work, if you are having fun? ---
**Author:** ![Okada\_Aivoras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/okada_aivoras/32/494420_2.png) [@Okada\_Aivoras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Okada_Aivoras)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/204 "2025-05-24T20:58:32Z")
this here has never been about work or not work. i was hoping to gather some interesting thoughts about what makes this game special for the individual player. it is NOT about who is right. it is NOT about if ganking is okay. it is NOT about how cool you are. IT IS about what makes you invest so much time in EVE? i hope we can all calm down and have a good conversation. thank you ---
**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 24, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/205 "2025-05-24T21:02:12Z")
> [@Okada\_Aivoras](#): > > calm down 🤭 😏 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Okada\_Aivoras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/okada_aivoras/32/494420_2.png) [@Okada\_Aivoras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Okada_Aivoras)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/206 "2025-05-24T21:02:14Z")
thank you for your post ---
**Author:** ![Lydra\_Victor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lydra_victor/32/456813_2.png) [@Lydra\_Victor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lydra_Victor)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/207 "2025-05-24T21:53:09Z")
> [@Rana\_Ash](#): > > One is supposed to take this game seriously? Should not be, but in a game that losses can cause a measure of pain and suffering, Reality and Fiction becomes blurred. ---
**Author:** ![Aallin\_Gicquet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aallin_gicquet/32/510703_2.png) [@Aallin\_Gicquet](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aallin_Gicquet)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/209 "2025-05-25T00:35:17Z")
Swing Vote Swing\_Vote1 what does your post have to do with this discussion? ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/princess_rose_ivory/32/433985_2.png) [@Princess\_Rose\_Ivory](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Princess_Rose_Ivory)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/210 "2025-05-25T07:03:03Z")
> [@Aallin\_Gicquet](#): > > However, if you are not paying for a sub out of your own pocket. And strictly plexing your sub. Then, yes, you are working. One way or the other you are paying. I don’t sub or Plex my account, I haven’t spent a dime on this game. Now my husband did spend on Plex as a thanks to the developer. I just have fun here, when I am not busy or playing on my Guild Wars PvP weekends or Black Desert. I have spent cash money on both of those games. Being an alpha only player, I don’t feel any restrictions. I have made and spent ISK and even given to the MSB program. Currently I am working out what my next objective will be here. I have owned and lost stations and ships, I have mined, PvPed, hauled items, purchased clothes, etc.. It only feels limited from my aspect that there are no apartment items, because there is no apartment. I don’t have anything to lose here. If my account got delete tomorrow, it is not the end of the world. What I stated in my first post on this thread, is the reason why players take this game far too serious. They have invested a large amount of cash in this game over time. I would be feeling very upset, if Black Desert went poof! tomorrow. I spent a lot of real world cash on [my housing](https://youtu.be/r3chngtSCH8?feature=shared). Meanwhile I stopped spending on Guild Wars when they made the trash sequel in 2012. But I would still miss my Guild Wars PvP weekends, if they took the original game down. I hope that explains it better for you. Have fun! ---
**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 25, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/212 "2025-05-25T09:52:11Z")
> [@Swing\_Vote1](#): > > 100% yes! Those who don’t get ganked > [@Aallin\_Gicquet](#): > > But if you are doing something you enjoy, is it really work.. Yes, spending money is hard work - so many decisions. > [@Aallin\_Gicquet](#): > > Swing\_Vote1 what does your post have to do with this discussion? Nothing , **Swing Chicken** is irrelevant ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874/213 "2025-05-25T10:12:38Z")
> [@Aallin\_Gicquet](#): > > Swing Vote Swing\_Vote1 what does your post have to do with this discussion? His ChatGPT is failing again. 🤔 🤭 [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874.md?page=7) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-eve-players-take-this-game-so-serious/481874.md?page=9)