Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
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Posted - 2015.04.09 04:37:00 -
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"EVE is a Facebook game that requires a lot of investment."
I don't mean this as an insult; it really is the best way I can explain the game and I mean it with all the respect and admiration in the world. Allow me to expand on that.
The game is cripplingly boring in PVE. There is no skill in doing it really. You get your ship, you start the mission, you potentially look online to see what the mission entails to put on the proper modules of your ship, and you do it. Combat is pressing F1 and waiting for something to die. PVP is much the same. Unless you are the Fight/Flight Commander, you are just listening to instructions on who to fire in a big battle. The people involved in "The Bloodbath at B-R5RB" were generally "F1 Monkeys." The FC calls out targets, the people target that person, they press F1. It isn't like most other MMO where there is finesse to be made at the lower level of PVP. The best way I can describe it is "imagine if you are playing Hearthstone at the highest level but Trump/Forsen/top player was telling you, explicitly, what moves to make." At the low level of PVP where you might just be watching a gate for something to come through with your three of your friends, I would describe it as "watching a river and when a fish comes by, shooting it with a shotgun." This leaves out "potentially waiting 8 hours for said fish."
The Facebook aspect, as I mentioned above, is because the game is entirely socially driven. In WoW, you can get by in a big guild by never saying anything and not really being known. EVE is all about being known, making a name for yourself, and moving up. The amount of things that players are able to do such as sovereignty, totally player created market, and just the entire macrocosm of EVE is staggering.
I think EVE is best seen as an outside observer, at least that is how I most enjoy it. I can watch things like Rooks and Kings with an appreciation of what is happening without actually having to do it. You can find enjoyment in the game. Listening to Not Purple, Shoot It presentation last year made me realize that there really are ways to get into the game even without all that effort providing you are not looking to truly conquer the stars.
The Lore in the game is breathtaking in it's scope, complexity, and verisimilitude. My quick thing about the lore and story is "I hate the fact that something so great is saddled onto something so boring; it deserves to on television or in a movie." You could easily do a Game of Thrones style thing with EVE.
I dislike playing the game for the above reasons. When I play a game, I want to have fun. EVE really isn't that 99% of the time for me. But I love what EVE allows people to do and I am happy it exists. It is why I like the idea of what DUST/Legion/"New Eden FPS" could be. Keep all the stuff that makes EVE great while scaling the game for useability and having more interesting game play.
I will say this: there are people in EVE that are literally Space Truckers. I have seen them in Vegas in special shirts. They play the game by making deals for ferrying goods across New Eden. The only thing I can say is that these people must be James Bond or something and just need the least exciting aspect of the game in order to calm down. Of course, it isn't the loading and traveling that is the game to them; it is the making contracts and deals with people.
Thus: "EVE is a Facebook game that requires a lot of investment."
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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