The fail in this post is just too much, how can you comment on something when you have spent so little time on them. I've never played eve myself but is 40 days not only slightly longer than the trial period? And 2 games of dust? That's not even half an hours playing, you can't judge something off such a shallow experience.

And there's something you need to understand, CCP aren't "too lazy" to regulate PvP, it's unregulated as a deliberate design choice, the "HTFU" and "Don't fly what you can't afford to lose" mentalities didn't come about by accident. You could say that eve is somewhat like real life in that regard, sometimes **** happens and you have no choice but to deal with the consequences.

And did you really say "only half a million people" you say that like its a bad thing. This game has over 500,000 accounts paying a monthly fee of what? -ú15? That comes to -ú7,500,000 a month!!! It's more than enough for CCP to keep on going. And unlike every other game out there, every single one of those accounts exist on the same server. Sure WoW might have the higher numbers but they're split across hundreds of servers, eve is different, eve is unique. The fact that it has unregulated PvP is one of its most important features, by the way, how can you say "a little unregulated PvP is fine" but then call for regulation for PvP in the same post?

The fact is Eve doesn't suffer fools, if you fly a bling ship you have no right to complain when someone ganks you, if your inexperience makes you wander into a system you should have avoided, well it's tough luck but you live and you learn. One of the things that attract me to eve is how the game doesn't hold your hand like pretty much everything else out there, as soon as I get a PC I'm gonna download the trial for it, will probably even subscribe to it.

In other words, if you want to play eve you have to have a "HTFU" mentality, not because your an *******, because their are assholes out there, both in real life and in games, accept it, deal with it, move on having learnt something from the encounter.

This is incorrect. MMOs that forgo the whole RPG style XP/leveling system do not have much of a "nerf that buff this" problem.

When was the last time you read someone bitching to jeb about a cobblestone nerf in minecraft?

With Dayz the biggest issues even coming close are the players say the some items are too common and the game should be harder....of course they mean harder actual game play...not longer pointless grinds.

So many problems come from CCP's choice to use SP in EvE/Dust it makes me think the OP is correct in pointing out that the reason for this is not for compelling game play but to milk players for money.

I don't think you understand.

I never played Ultima Online for the very fact it had nearly unregulated PVP.
Runescape.... uhhhh.... NO!
I've dealt with these kinds of games before. They are, all the same.

You play, for the sole purpose that one day, you can take your advantage and camp at a bottleneck to the "Good Parts of the game" use it against someone at a disadvantage,( usually an extreme disadvantage) for the sole purpose of pissing that random person off.

IE. You play so that one day you can just start greifing other players.

Most News Bulletins coming out of your game, are a testament to this fact.

This game is advertised based on that fact.

I pity all of you.

Minecraft and DayZ are not like that. I guess in dayz you can get the better weapons but you can still be killed by a noob with an ax. In Minecraft if you play PvP a noob could set a trap and kill you...it also depends on how the server is configured.

I think he is talking about an SP advantage which has nothing to do with smarts or game play....you get it simply by being here longer then the players you gank.

This really comes down to how bad the whole SP/leveling system is for Dust...for EvE already sucks in my mind because you don't actually pilot your ship....how boring is that....but yeah if i actually liked the game play of EvE the SP/leveling system would be pile of crap as well.

This is incorrect. MMOs that forgo the whole RPG style XP/leveling system do not have much of a "nerf that buff this" problem.

When was the last time you read someone bitching to jeb about a cobblestone nerf in minecraft?

With Dayz the biggest issues even coming close are the players say the some items are too common and the game should be harder....of course they mean harder actual game play...not longer pointless grinds.

So many problems come from CCP's choice to use SP in EvE/Dust it makes me think the OP is correct in pointing out that the reason for this is not for compelling game play but to milk players for money.