Re: EVE and getting new people to play

On Sun, 11 May 2025 00:48:12 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

I tried EVE Online last year, but it was too grinding and confusing so I
gave up.
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EVE is a game I've tried to get into (and failed), I think, three
times. It definitely has a learning curve that makes it difficult to
approach (although I read that CCP Games was working on that?), but
the biggest problem I had with it was that the overall goal of the
game just wasn't appealing to me. It was playing for the sake of
playing, and if I'm sitting down to spend a few precious hours to play
video games, I much prefer a game that tells me a story (either
directly through its narrative or through its world-building). EVE's
'plot' (as much as it exists) is told through the other players, and
that's just not what I want to have to deal with. Add to that the
rather grindy and repetitive gameplay and there's very little that EVE
has to offer me.

But every now and again I give it another shot. The game is, I think,
quite good; its visually impressive, its balance has been refined over
decades, and its player-run econonomy and politics are an amazing
achievement (even if it's a bit of a full of its own libertarian
bullshit, or at least it was the last time I engaged that deeply with
the game). It's the sort of game I intellectually WANT to love, but
that I know deep down I'll never really like. ;-)