Stuck in my Relaxed Gaming Mode

I'm a little sad about my current gameplay in Eve Online or lack of it. For the last month or so, I haven't really been doing much more than skill flipping in the game. My alliance has taken some property in Null Sec, but I am not feeling the excitement I had last time I was there and I am not sure why. Perhaps it is the ships we are flying now or some of the tweaks CCP has thrown in, but I am not as enthused.

With the changes to industry, I feel like I have to learn a whole new game to make money. I used to have a little business on the side where I would crank out ships needed by my corp and alliance, but now I shy away from that since I know how long it took to learn the 'old' way of doing things. Don't get me wrong, I think the progress CCP is making with the game is a good thing, but it makes me feel like all my investment over the years has to be remade.

I think it goes back further than that. When they redid all the scanner and probe mechanics, I was excited but felt like I had wasted a lot of time learning something that was of no use anymore because things were changed – all my hard work to understand the arcane gameplay and now they made it easy to do. I mean, I applaud CCP for making things easier for new players to get involved in the game, but I guess I am a bit of a snob in that I enjoyed playing a game that was hard and complex.

Eve is by no means a simple game now, but I think the learning curve is more approachable. I hope it brings new players in and lets them enjoy what I consider one of the best SciFi MMOs on the market. In the mean time, I've gotta get out of my funk and go on some roams through Null Sec and get my mind back into the game. No other game gets my adrenaline pumping except maybe some of the horror aspects of The Secret World – another game I want to get back into.

Perhaps I have just been in a relaxed gaming mode lately.

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