Fredrik Knudsen's video on EVE is really fascinating stuff, though more focused on in-universe events. I don't recall him even bringing this up in the vid which seems like a huge miss, I just recall various claims of admins giving benefits to certain users unchecked for a while. Also tracks with the monetization changes the devs made that universally pissed off their whole playerbase, unironic lolbertarians are wild 
Oh that video is amazing and it recapped so much that I didn't see for myself after I quit the game in disgust around "Tyrannus," which was appropriately named because it was a staggering number of "protect the country club" rules changes to make sure the company's favorite in-game failsons were protected from invasion in a way where they could just press a button and prevent invasions entirely as long as they were rich enough. 
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there was your mistake
You fucking nerds made a 5 hour video about a fucking game
... a game that has people and their families sent death threats and years of toxic shit due to the profit motive of the game's cash out system
I'm glad I left. It started as a Randroid wet dream, even in its fiction, and that was always the point.
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What a shitty game
I spent ages botting with like 10 accounts, from bot mining in a rented nullsec system to bot faction warfare amassing a stupid amount of isk for one player, then having decided I had enough funds to have fun, joined some corps and realised I didn't enjoy the game at all
Should log on and sell off the characters and ISK some day
I don't really like Thor, and he's not being entirely truthful here, but CCP is full of shit. EVE has seen better days.
I haven't played EVE for a long time and I only know from other people how it's presently going (not good, sounds like, which isn't much of a change), but damn does that company have some toxic stans.
Reminds me of the types of people I participated in wars against, back against BoB and their numerous (described by them) "pets." They were almost always insufferably smug pieces of shit that ran interference for CCP's worst behaviors, usually with excessive use of eyeroll emojis on the forums.
BoB....ran interference for CCP
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Oh, the memories rushing back.
That's so realistic though
Sure, the skullduggery and corruption is neat when it's in-game and you're ready for it, but when godlike entities outside of the game's limitations can just conjure shit up and change the rules to fit their Randroid buddies, that's not fun.
g*mes and their consequences…
This would have never happened if CCP Guard was still there. Rip permaband. In all seriousness, CCP seems like an awful place to work but there are still good people that work there. Although they either leave like Guard or Snorlax or get worse like Hilmar. Aurora still seems okay, but for how long remains to be seen.
Posting pirate software should be illegal. I never really understood the appeal of eve i imagine its very much a sunk cost fallacy game i don't really see how new players can get into it. I tried it out a few times and put a decent amount of time into the game it mostly devolved into either doing missions or mining and both were very boring. Gameplay is clunky, grind is intense, only recommendation is to join a corp where i would do the exact same activities but get taxed.
I did play with a few friends and do some lowsec mining but nothing interesting ever happened its only ever nullsec ganks anyway
Hilmar having an underling write his big "apology" letter
"GREED IS GOOD" as a magazine header when peddling those "incarna" macrotransactions.
how much did you get when you sold your accounts?
Enough, at least.
The experience point treadmill in that game can be very discouraging to new players, last I checked anyway.
The magic 14 need to go the way of learning skills.
it's all pay-to-win now with skill injectors anyway. you can just add ISK until you have the exact skills you want
That wasn't even a thing when I quit.
Sounds pretty awful, and yet another way for the country club failsons of New Eden to pump up alts and uplift minions into servitude.
P2W only applies if you have the game knowledge to know where and how to spend it.
You could have a purple paladin, and then immediately die to 8 frigates once you jump it into Tama.
A more pertinent example is the Casino Guy who bankrolled the most recent successfull eviction of Goonwaffe injecting a max skilled Erebus, putting the toon in PL, and then immediately eating shit on his first lowsec jump towards staging.
I do think you have somewhat of a point there with the amount of shitfit marauders you see on zkill with 6 month old characters, but it is absolutely nothing like WoT gold ammo, or a gacha mobage.
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WoT gold ammo
Holy fucking shit don't even remind me, it was bad enough but passable when it was just real cash gold ammo because considering how full of bots and casuals that game was chance you encounter someone shitting out gold on random battles was pretty small, but when they did gold ammo for silver (because of fucking course why else people are gonna buy premium tanks) entire pretense of balance was violently defenestrated.
My surface level understanding of the game made it seem like the kind of thing that I would have loved at some point in my life, but the more I learn about it, the more I'm glad I never gave it a shot.
It certainly delivers the corruption and backstabbing hellscape that it promises (including its development company's meddling in the game), but it's also a bit exhausting because of it. More fun for me to read about than participate in.
I noticed they are trash tier after playing few days and my ship evaporating with nearly my entire progress. I kinda liked that game, but this is complete dealbreaker.
Why can I not escape this lib? Why must Pirate Software be posted everywhere?!
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Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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even a leftist at all?