A Contrary Opinion

 


Maybe more than one.

Eve Online is not dying. Not anytime soon. So stop worrying about something that is entirely out of your personal control. Stop posting about it. Stop comparing server counts. Stop worrying about Hilmar and Vanguard and Frontier. You literally have nothing to worry about regarding any of those things. Zip. Zilch. Nada. It is weird and, frankly, immature that you choose to exert so much energy to it. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it's hilarious. Even more now than it was when I first heard it twenty years ago. When I heard it when they closed the Atlanta office, worked on a vampire game, or that weird VR back and forth 3d ball game, or when DUST was PS only - or pick another one.

It is entirely possible that Eve Online won't survive forever. It is also possible that it will. Who knows? The answer to that question is simple - no one.

I don't know when this started. I put this sort of thing up there with Box Office for major film releases. At some point along the timeline people started caring about the Box Office numbers of major Hollywood releases. Like really, really caring. Which is super odd to me. I couldn't care less. Either I enjoy a film or I don't. The business machinations of multi-billion dollar conglomerates has little to no bearing on me. Nor do I on them. But yet, people act like it means something. To them personally. I find that very weird.

When did the financial viability of the corporate entity responsible for the game you enjoy start to mean something to you? When I played my Atari 2600 I was barely aware that Atari was an actual company. A company being led by idiots, who would squander market share and drive the company into bankruptcy. So I moved on to other gaming platforms. 

Someone needed to say it.

Enjoy the game. Be thankful you live at the exact time to be able to enjoy it. It might not be around forever. Heck, next week AI could rob us all of all gaming and force us into cubicles to double-check its work on our own extermination. Or not. I mean, who knows right?

If it means so much to you, then don't buy the service. Or do buy the service. That is and always has been, the only real meaningful way to make your feelings heard.

And finally, a word of encouragement. The Eve Online IP is worth a lot of money. If Fenris can't hack it, then some mindless global equity based company will purchase it and keep it running for another decade or two. And then it'll live on a server somewhere being run by an AI agent development team running on a quantum 4000 in the basement of a Bangalore hospice. So, really, you have nothing to worry about.

Enjoy it while it lasts.