Reality Check takes a trip to Fanfest to study the psychology of hardcore video game fans. Just what is going on inside their loyal brains?
Game Rant recently spoke with some long-time EVE Online players who all shared some key advice for any players jumping into EVE for the first time.
Whether they teach you the easy way or the space death hard way remains to be seen.
Eve Online Is A 9 to 5 unpaid job With A Strongly Biased Community Willing To Trap You Into Their Sunk Cost Fallacy.
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Wccftech interviewed CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson at EVE Fanfest to talk about Online, Frontier, Vanguard, and more.
This is a great video. David's reply for commitment towards a game makes sense.
There is no such thing as a hardcore gamer. You either play games or not. There is a such thing as a knowledgeable gamer and non-knowledgeable gamer.
My definition of a hardcore gamer is someone who considers gaming their primary hobby, while a gamer is someone who considers gaming a hobby, but not necessarily their primary hobby, and a casual gamer considers gaming to be a last-resort time waster for when they have nothing else to do.
Hardcore fans tend to be rather obsessed with the definition of what is a game and what is not a game and who is or is not a gamer based upon what games they enjoy.
What makes hardcore fans hardcore?
Idiocy.
There is absolutely no good reason for the term 'hardcore' to ever be linked up with the terms 'fan' or 'gamer'
I don't know any hardcore photographers, hardcore movie goers, or hardcore bowlers. The idea itself is ridiculous, it speaks more to their insecurity than anything else, as if being hardcore adds some sort of legitimacy or edge to their fandom.