SgtMajSquish MLBJ wrote:With the player count still not seeing any rise, I feel that some people cannot walk away as they invested so much time and money that it would break them. I have dropped easily a minimum of $200 on this game, but I am not going to allow myself to be a prisoner of that number. I have spent many hours and yet, I no longer hold myself hostage to that. Dust is quite high on the delete list if I ever need any space on the drive. I hope that people are not still playing because they feel obligated to. No matter what the reason, if you are feeling obligated to play the game due to investments, you are no longer having fun.
Walk away when it stops being fun. Its the only data CCP needs
I've read this OP 3 times now, at a good 10 minutes apart from each attempt and I still cannot get the mindset here.
I get the state of hesitation and even fear in leaving something that one has invested considerable amounts of whatever into. I can see this in home-improvement, car repairs, relationships (how many struggle to maintain dysfunctional relationships in spite of knowing that it's just not working for no other reason of having spent "time in"!), but dude. This is a
video game.
Money in is
entertainment out. If you're still forking out money after NOT enjoying the game, there are other problems at work here that a game forum ain't fixing.
This is
entertainment. Period. Spend money to entertain much like you would subbing to NetFlix. The moment it stops entertaining, then stop spending money and take a break. Worst case? Leave. I am dumbfounded by comments like
"...invested so much time and money that it would break them" and
"hold myself hostage." Seriously? Who the ferk is having a mental meltdown over a f2p video game?! Sure, there are outliers where kids sit on their arse 24/7 for a few days and start twitching from dehydration, but that's not the norm and you know what I mean. Hell, my ex once freaked the hell out, cussed me then threw a bottle of water at me in a foreign country in front of 3 cops over the suggestion of mine to buy a bus ticket. My point is, there are those rare
special cases that require... let's just say a unique level of expectation. Ultimately though, it's a game!
Are people so insecure that there is a need to come here on a forum trying to rally others around to take a stand against paper dragons to feel better about one's financial irresponsibility? I say irresponsibility because in order to create an emotional vacuum enough so that the feeling of guilt and obligation takes over the rational instinct to just push away when done suggests a serious lack of self-control. Who the hell is obligated to play a f2p? You spent some cash? Then burn through your in-game currency and be done with it. If it's hitting hard enough to create any sense of a hostage crisis, chances are ya probably shouldn't have put in your CC# to begin with. Msg me in game though, and I'll be more than happy to be more sympathetic. With an AUR protofit. Funny thing is, I suck at this game and would lose the loadout lol. Who CARES!?
TL/DR
In the classic EvE fashion of "don't fly what you can't afford to lose" so too should it be true: "don't spend rent on entertainment."
to pull it all back to point though, seriously: I'm enjoying it. The moment I stop enjoying it is the moment I stop playing ...the game. No need for sympathies. I've spent what I've spent and have gotten my entertainment out of it---at a far better cost-to-entertainment ratio than going to a theater.
p.s. Sorry for the ranting. Just... that OP. 4rlz?