You might think, given the game’s abundance of politics and griefing on an intergalactic scale, that the kind of people who play EVE Online are complete psychos. Well, you’re only half right.
Ezra Morris and Ben Ritter from Motherboard went to the EVE Fanfest in Iceland last year, and while there, brought a nice camera and the intent to profile a number of the game’s players, to see what motivates them and how their feelings on the game may have changed.
I love features like this. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of assuming everyone who plays a certain game is alike, so it’s nice to get reminders that, even in the world of tumultuous science fiction MMOs, you can never be sure who the person on the other end of a message/missile salvo is.
EVE Online, Offline: Meet the Geeks Living Inside an Interstellar Virtual War [Motherboard]
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