MOP reader Tobasco da Gama pointed us to a recent
Reddit thread about why
EVE Online persists, even in a weakened state, where other hardcore PvP sandboxes fail. The thread OP posits that in spite of what he calls “CCP’s criminal level of mismanagement and incompetence,”
EVE has outlasted other games of its ilk, from
Darkfall and
Mortal Online to
Albion Online and pre-Trammel
Ultima Online. The reason? He argues it’s because the vast majority of players who don’t quit outright never leave high-sec and aren’t actually playing the “hardcore” PvP game that New Eden is known for at all. In other words? Most people playing
EVE are carebears.
Fightin’ words, right? It makes a lot of sense to me, frankly, and since my husband still plays EVE, I’ve seen the phenomenon in action, that the toxic part of the playerbase perpetually eclipses the majority of normal folks just happily space mining and killing pirates and watching their skill bars go up.
Why do you think EVE survives where other PvP sandboxes stumble?
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