Well, I'm not sure if this is the right spot, but a mod is free to move it or delete it.
Anyway, I'm leaving Eve. Or rather, I've left Eve. I nearly did during Incarna, but CCP got me back by actually listening. So I thought I'd wait and make sure I was really not interested anymore. And, I'm not. I've been un-subbed for about a month (as in, it ran out a month ago).
If you want to know why, I think it's largely the combination of ever increasing real-life busy-ness, and my waning interest with the back story and play-style of Eve. To the latter, I've always been a bit of a soloist, and CCP has repeatedly nerfed soloing, from missions, to making it impossible to render yourself scan-proof.
But I think the really big thing, the thing without which I'd still be subscribed, was the whole Caldari Prime debacle, and the feed-the-nullies operation that followed it. I was really frustrated by that, and while it is true that nothing in a game lasts, I was frustrated at the lack of any elegance, grace, or choice in the story.
I liked getting invested, at least for an hour or two a week, in faux-hating the other guy, in momentary triumphs. I loved the chance to actually have a game make me feel just a little irritated when I lost a ship to the hated Galmil, or grin for a moment when I ambushed and killed someone who was smacking in local. I liked the stories made, the sense of choice.
I didn't like it when CCP handed Heth Caldari Prime, particularly without player input - as I've noted enough to make people sick of hearing me - and I blamed TonyG for that sort of writing. Then player involvement was used to railroad the same sort of action, just in reverse. That wasn't TonyG. That was CCP - and CCP who essentially used RPers and non-nullies as a treat for the null-sec alliances. I have lost faith even with CCP's good intentions. I think that Eve is largely a sow from which the piglets of a failed shooter and the WoD MMO suckle.
I'm not bitter about that, and it is only my opinion. I hope anyone here who is still playing has a blast, and I won't promise that I'll never be back. I doubt it, however. Eve is the only MMO I ever played for long, and that was largely because it felt alive, changing, and chaotic. Now it feels predictable, stagnant, and...well, paradoxically, empty.
I have a lot of good memories from Eve. Griefing as a newbie, attacking other newbies in wars. RPing Sansha-lite with Cia, Petra, and others. Running missions with uncloaked ravens in Syndicate, and pushing Requiem out of Fountain alongside PL. Dismantling the Ordo Magna and assassinating a member for a contract, running Angel missions in Curse and transporting contraband through null and low sec. Exploring wormholes and messing around with deadspace complexes. Turning the tide of the last Gallente push with Liandri, and starting the battle of Asakai with our troll-tower - and then making billions off of the fighters and fighter-bombers that dropped. I enjoyed Eve, and I hope you did too.
Fly safe.
-Vik
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