EVE Blog Banter #2: New Eden Bearhug…
Well, right off the back of last month’s successful Blog Banter we’re “thwacked” in the face with a brand new one! (Don’t you just love comic book “noises”?)
Up for discussion this month by yours truly and many other EVE bloggers located in secret bunkers worldwide is an interesting topic proposed by Brinelan over at The Shard. He asks, “What drew us into EVE, what keeps us playing the game and what brought us back if we’ve ever left?”
This question has recieved a medal (one of the shiny new Quantum Rise medals, I might add) for being: “A notably excellent question” and is currently undergoing a parade of honour around my Capital City - Awesometropolis. So as you may have gathered - I think this is an exceedingly good topic for the second EVE Blog Banter in the same way that Mr Kipling bakes exceedingly good cakes…So….on to business…
My own history with EVE Online is rather convoluted and “bitty” and what follows is merely a brief summary of the time between EVE’s release and my “awakening” - I originally learnt about EVE in the summer of 2003 when the game was still available at Retail. I picked up a copy of it and tried it out…I don’t remember much about it apart from Warp to 0 wasn’t in the game and I didn’t really get into it after playing it a couple of times over that week. After that the retail edition began to gather dust, cobwebs and anything else that you would associate with the terms “forgotten”, “abandoned” and “discarded”. It wasn’t until 2004 that I tried it again for maybe another week. This on/off relationship continued up until January 2008 at which point I had a word with myself…
“Give it a go”, I said to myself, softly. “You know there’s so much on offer! Why not try and get into it?”, I continued. I nodded to myself and promptly thanked myself for the encouragement and exchanged a firm business-like handshake, again with myself and went about the business of installing the game. Since that fateful day many moons ago I haven’t looked back, not even to check if there were some horrendous giant spider monster behind me…and believe me, I detest giant spider monsters so I think you can gather the sort of attention I have been giving the game.
So, why after several attempts did I finally fall in love with the game? Why didn’t I give up the ghost back in 2003? Well….Aside from the fact I had no clue what I was doing and really only gave the game a limited playthrough…The idea of it in my mind was fantastic. I’ve been a fan of space combat/trading games for a long time now having had my fair share of fun in Homeworld, Privateer, Wing Commander, X and Elite I was ready to embrace an MMORPG that brought together many of the core concepts I adored from the aforementioned titles but I just couldn’t stick to it in between my other projects/games/hobbies.
By 2008 I had matured, I had had my fair share of WoW and was growing tired with a heavy schedule of Call of Duty 4 practice - I needed a game for my “downtime”, something I could absorb myself into and I decided that that game had better damn well be EVE Online. So I resolved, once and for all to dedicate time to this game, gather some modicum of awareness of its concepts and play it! This plan succeeded and here I am, pouring my heart out to you Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr/Sir/Insert title here Reader…even if you do goad me into crazy ranting/babbling….Oi!….I’m keeping my eye on you….
Since then the reasons for staying with EVE have grown and grown, moving from “small pile” status to “Bigger than the biggest mountain you have seen, plus infinity”. I’m now part of a corp with aspirations and great drive, I’ve brought friends with me and made friends along the way. I adore the backstory, I relish the political scope and I am beginning to indulge in bloodthirsty PvP madness. The social interactions and engagements and the feeling that you are playing something which is more than a game create a grand tidal wave of feeling for this game that stretches accross my psyche. I realize I am now overly “gushing” here but with each passing day another reason to play EVE Online moves into my brain, into a brand new luxury apartment built on EVE Street which stretches from Frontal Lobe Way all the way to the muddy waters of the Brain Stem. If I were a grand old cockney good for nothing I’d probably describe EVE Online as a “diamond geezer”. I mean that!
To summarize: “EVE! He is good for you no?!” Yes….yes he is.
Participants:
- CrazyKinux’s Musing: EVE Blog Banter #2: Space, the Final Frontier…
- Ombeve: OOC Blog Banter 2
- The Wandering Druid of Tranquility: Internet Spaceships is Serious Business
- Semper EVE: The Allure of EVE
- A Merry Life and a Short One: EVE Blog Banter #2 - This Is My Time
- Life in Low Sec: Blog Banter #2: EVE’s Enduring Allure
- Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah: Eve Blog Banter - What Drew Me Into Eve?
- Roc’s Rambling: Blog Banter #2: Staying Power
- Sahirs Journey: Why am I sitting in an internet spaceship?
- Diving into PsychDiver’s Psyche: EVE Blog Banter #2: All I Ever Wanted To Be Was A Capsuleer
- Achernar: Just gathering intel
- Sweet Little Bad Girl: Blog Banter #2
- The Ralpha Dogs: The Appeal of the Never-Ending Story
- A Mule in EVE: Mule Psychology : EvE Style
- A Misguided Adventure: Blog Banter - Enduring Allure
- One Man and His Spaceship: Blog Banter 2 - November 2008 Edition
- Letrange’s EVE Blog: That Banter Thing
- Diary of a Space Jokey: EVE Blog Banter: How’d I get here ?!
- The Shard: EVE Blog Banter #2
