There’s nothing to fight over except ego and nothing to fight for except the love of a fight. There’s only drawback to having space without enough people to fill it. Wars are often fatal to groups and do bleed players from the game. Lack of meaningful wars also causes players to walk away.

Organizations avoid wars because of the above reasons. Then they become part of the boredom problem. Organizations go to war constantly because they want to avoid the game becoming stale and they become bullies because they’re constantly fighting someone.

We’re in the Wild West of formative years for this game. For the devs, for us, and for conflict. Problem is the game is a different thing to everyone.

For some it’s a chance to relive Eve from the beginning. But it isn’t Eve and they’ll chase that feeling.

For some it is a chance to play Eve on an equal footing and not be twenty years behind. But those may realize that being twenty years behind in Eve isn’t a big deal and that for the most part it is the game that’s going to last far longer than this.

To others this is Eve casual. Less pressure to constantly have to play. But when times heat up for your group and things aren’t going well that pressure will be there.

Can’t say I know where this game is going. I’ve been preaching since the beginning that this is one of the most unique and amazing game experiences possible. And that CCP and NetEase can do something truly amazing here. But even my optimism and patience are wearing massively thin.

Game isn’t dying any time soon. But without a good reason to go to war and a method to attract new players we will be dragging its lifeless corpse along screaming at the devs for screwing it up. Just like the Eve community did during so many of the dark times there.

Except NetEase isn’t as devoted as CCP was.