(04-01-2016, 10:26 AM)Telluride Wrote: EVE Online still serves a very good purpose:
It keeps some of the worst examples of scum, villainy and dedicated douchebaggery all in one game and out of the rest of online entertainment. Â May EVE continue to prosper and serve this secretly noble purpose.
I played it for about a year or so, and I enjoyed developing a pilot, getting new ships, and becoming a miner. I still have good memories of some of the mining expeditions I did with some of the local gaming crew. But the hate that its more gritty community gets is, I'm sad to say, entirely and completely deserved, and I had to leave it.
There is probably a bit of that, and also another bit that I think takes a pretty important place as well in the equation: Eve is a pvp game first and foremost. Even when being a highsec miner or pve-er you still have a risk to get ganked. Or screwed over the market, or by an player scam, theft, sabotaged, or just infiltrated and your corp suddenly turns into a dramabomb.
In any case, being a pvp MMO changes everything radically. Tension between players will rise in a competitive environment. People will trashtalk each other, to the point of using it as a weapon in itself. It's not something especially proper to Eve at that point, but it comes with most pvp MMOs or large scale pvp games.
Then yes, testosterone filled ideals and the cult of "drinking tears" is not proper to Eve either, but it certainly has been magnified in the game. Fucking up your neighbor and everyone else is the way to go by default. Eve has its own peculiar obnoxious mentality, and goon is probably no stranger to the game getting more and more obnoxious over the years. It was certainly different when I started playing in late 2006.
Also, to their defense, I have to admit that outside of the game, except in a few dire cases and slippery slopes, players are usually super friendly/buddy to each other, weirdly enough. Like, what happens ingame, happens ingame.
Balmung:Â Suen Shyu
