Welcome to another installment of the EVE Blog Banter, a monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter invites enthusiastic EVE bloggers to address a common topic for a period of one week. Posts run the gamut: short, long, funny, serious, and everywhere in between, but always fun to read! This month, Manasi asks How do we, EVE bloggers, adapt to changes as they are thrust upon us (speed changes, no more ghost training, all the dev blogs, etc), or as our lives make playing the game different (more time, less time)? Direct questions about the EVE Blog Banter to CrazyKinux. Links to other EVE Blog Banter articles will be listed at the end of this post as they become available.
As in life, change is inevitable in EVE. I'm an optimist, so I tend to view game changes (whether nerf, enhancement, or new content) as an opportunity to learn something new, try something different, and expand the boundaries of my comfort zone. Therefore, I welcome change. If that change affects investments I've already made it the game, well...so be it. Adapt and survive. When one door closes, another opens. The anger, threats, and demands from players directed at CCP on the forums over potential and implemented changes make me want to scream, "Who owns this game, people? Not you!"
Yes, we pay to play. But not enough to impart the sense of entitlement that seems to fuel the some of the forum rants. My position is this: I have faith that CCP will ALWAYS offer me a game that I can enjoy playing for the cost of one average bottle of wine each month. They haven't disappointed me in two years, so why should I have any reason to believe they ever would? Instead of working myself into a swivet when big changes are announced, I take the time to educate myself with an open mind. Depending on the nature of the individual changes, some will apply to me, some won't. When they are implemented, I will already have decided how I'm going to incorporate them into my play style--if at all.
As far as real life impacting how much or how little one can play, it happens. Sometimes one has a choice in the matter, sometimes not. Personally, I have a fairly stable, unencumbered life and have been able to spend a lot of free time playing EVE since I first subscribed (with a few necessary "balancing" tweaks here and there). But if tomorrow EVE were suddenly to no longer be an option for me, I'd adjust my focus and devote more free time to other equally enjoyable pursuits--riding, art, writing, photography, or gardening (to name a few of my other hobbies). Yeah, I would be sad. Yeah, I would miss my EVE activities and in-game friends terribly, but there is no point crying in your beer. The only thing to do would be to suck it up and get on with some other interesting things in life. Of which there are bazillions.
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