An EVE Online Forum Thread, currently at 621 posts and rising, details a brewing brouhaha in CCP's outer-space MMORPG that centers around alleged improprieties by CCP staff. The original post by EVE Online community manager kieron mentions that the identities of CCP employees participating in the game have become public, and that the compromised accounts have been deleted, and goes on to refer to the possibility that information about a coming story arc had been leaked by employee/players...
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.
Okay, am I missing something, or are these people taking this game WAY to seriously? I mean... is there like money involved, or rewards/prizes at stake? If so, sure I can understand why folks would be mad.
But if this is over some stupid leader-board type crap, then this might be the dumbest argument of all time.
Have you ever played a MMO?
If you have you SHOULD understand. It's not a wah wah wah thing. It's a respect for hard work thing.
MMO's are tedious to get anywhere in. Constant grinding, and "virtual" hard work. Lots of time invested.
Think of it this way.
If you were in direct competition with someone .... to build a computer. It was for no prize, just the satisfaction of knowing your better. You lost to this other person, who got all the glory blah blah blah. You then later find out that he had 100 other people helping them build his computer. While you built yours by yourself. You put in hard work, blood, sweat, and tears.
Would you not feel cheated?