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I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it's a bad game. Don't do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you'll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent's cool thing.

Do you have a similar game?

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[โ€“] ericbomb@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see it, I played a lot, but I never lost my job over it.

But there were folks that were on no matter what, and as time has gone on the micro transactions have only gotten worse and more aggressive. So it's easy to imagine that those folks who were on 24/7 were burning whatever money they had on the micro transactions.

The high of the really good things happening felt SOO good. Like pulling off the perfect heist/ambush felt so good it pulled you through another 50 hours of grinding on the amount of adrenaline and endorphins you would get after that 5 minute victory.

[โ€“] Zoot@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only ever been a miner, and not a moon miner, but like the kind who goes to .4sec and just tries finding the most valuable ore... I know there is a huge pvp and pve scene, but like, where can I find it? I've also never been a multi boxer, so I have one character who over the course of 7+ years has trained every possible thing, and i have no idea what to do with that, besides maybe joining for a week and strip mining before gettin burnt out

[โ€“] ericbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How you were unable to find those is shocking to me, as they are everywhere. But I'm not going to tell anyone how to better find the good bits of eve.

[โ€“] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, that said, I was never much a social bug. Only ever joined a corp because someone would find me strip mining, and offer to help me out via a corp, and try to get me to moon mine with them.

I definitely had my fun, but similar to others even just moon mining cut deep into time I should have spent with my family.