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[Angel Phoenix77]

Did you check your spam folder?

Checked it every day for 2 months, then tried again, same thing. After going through that three times, I think they were sending me a message of do not play.

[Arcana]

Shiitake actually

Hopefully less appropriately named.

[kaaduu1280]

In all seriousness, I felt my overall morale in life sink sharply and never recover with the loss of CoH and nothing to fill that gap properly.  I've felt more depressed with life as a whole and given everything going on in the world, honestly I'm truthfully miserable enough that the anarchistic joker side of me is certainly rearing it's head more.  Heck even my job has been frustrable lately showing some of the dumbest kinds of policies I've seen.

It's like the moment CoH shut down I've had nothing but frustrating things to look at in life.  Even a lot of my games lately had come up short at times.  I mean it's easy to run out of things to do in games like fallout or skyrim, even starbound I run out of ideas to build things.  I try logging into CO and find myself still falling sleep playing it and feeling bored at the games current balance issues favoring SHFG's.  Kind of atm in a state of "need new game" boredom atm, but the games I look forward to(the successors) are to far away atm.

Right alongside ya here...been playing FFXIV and it's...helped but there's no replacement. Never will be.

[Mistress Urd]

I played Eve Online some post closure maybe 2 years worth then about a year of Destiny, that's about it for me.

[Brigadine]

I played Eve Online some post closure maybe 2 years worth then about a year of Destiny, that's about it for me.

I started playing eve in 2013 and am still playing it. Why'd you quit?

[thunderforce]

I started playing eve in 2013 and am still playing it. Why'd you quit?

I play EVE, but there's no denying it's not everyone's cup of tea. It's quite intentionally aimed at a niche market.

[Brigadine]

I play EVE, but there's no denying it's not everyone's cup of tea. It's quite intentionally aimed at a niche market.

For sure. What alliance are you in?

[thunderforce]

For sure. What alliance are you in?

I'm not; I'm a wormhole spelunker mainly, although an alt does sometimes fly with those lovable CODE scamps.

[Vee]

Thunderforce: Wormhole Spelunker! sounds like it should have been an xtreme 90's comic.

[MegaWatt]

Wormhole Exploration Team: Thunderforce........its a stargate thing with super heroes obviously!

[Tyger42]

So remembering why I didn't give FF XIV a go. Go in to set up an account for the trial. Already have one registered to my email. Really? Okay....password reset to something I can remember just to be sure. Can't log in with email, have to use an account name. Okay, try my usuals. Nothing with the new password. Crap. User ID recovery option? Nope. Gotta file a support ticket. Full day later, no response.... Is this worth the fuss? What online service doesn't have an automated user ID recovery tool? How is it sensible to be able to reset my password more easily than it is to get the thing to tell me what my User ID is?

[Tubbius]

So remembering why I didn't give FF XIV a go. Go in to set up an account for the trial. Already have one registered to my email. Really? Okay....password reset to something I can remember just to be sure. Can't log in with email, have to use an account name. Okay, try my usuals. Nothing with the new password. Crap. User ID recovery option? Nope. Gotta file a support ticket. Full day later, no response.... Is this worth the fuss? What online service doesn't have an automated user ID recovery tool? How is it sensible to be able to reset my password more easily than it is to get the thing to tell me what my User ID is?

This reminds me of when I reinstalled Guild Wars.  I was using a defunct email as my user ID.  They wouldn't let me change it, so that was no big thing, but there I was, stuck with an old email that no longer worked if anything went wrong.

[Angel Phoenix77]

So remembering why I didn't give FF XIV a go. Go in to set up an account for the trial. Already have one registered to my email. Really? Okay....password reset to something I can remember just to be sure. Can't log in with email, have to use an account name. Okay, try my usuals. Nothing with the new password. Crap. User ID recovery option? Nope. Gotta file a support ticket. Full day later, no response.... Is this worth the fuss? What online service doesn't have an automated user ID recovery tool? How is it sensible to be able to reset my password more easily than it is to get the thing to tell me what my User ID is?

Sadly, that is the same issue I had when I tried to play. It is like they really do not want people to come back and play.

[Mistress Urd]

I started playing eve in 2013 and am still playing it. Why'd you quit?

Number of factors, but mostly I found Destiny far more fun to play. Now I don't have time to play at all. So banking "time" for Destiny 2.

[Brigadine]

I'm not; I'm a wormhole spelunker mainly, although an alt does sometimes fly with those lovable CODE scamps.

Ew CODE. I am in VOLT

[Keldian]

I sometimes play Trove when I want to get that feel of having travel powers.

[thunderforce]

Ew CODE.

They're a friendly bunch once you get to know them (unlike the anti-gankers, who are frankly toxic), and you get a surprising amount of action on a busy night even given you can only shoot something every 15 minutes. Plus, it gives you an amazing killboard [1] and opens the door to some other amusing shenanigans.

[1] because of the way killboards "tend to green" - if many people shoot one ship, they're all credited with the full value of the kill, but only their own individual losses. Freighter ganking paints an entirely unrealistic picture as a result, which is amusing given how seriously some other people take their killboards.

[Brigadine]

They're a friendly bunch once you get to know them (unlike the anti-gankers, who are frankly toxic), and you get a surprising amount of action on a busy night even given you can only shoot something every 15 minutes. Plus, it gives you an amazing killboard [1] and opens the door to some other amusing shenanigans.

[1] because of the way killboards "tend to green" - if many people shoot one ship, they're all credited with the full value of the kill, but only their own individual losses. Freighter ganking paints an entirely unrealistic picture as a result, which is amusing given how seriously some other people take their killboards.

I am sure they are nice to their own people. I will always have a problem with calling blobbing PvEers in pvp ships pvp. Its PvDP(player vs defenseless player). Eve is in trouble and its because the gankers and people that do nothing but target pvers ran too many people off the game.

[thunderforce]

I am sure they are nice to their own people. I will always have a problem with calling blobbing PvEers in pvp ships pvp. Its PvDP(player vs defenseless player). Eve is in trouble and its because the gankers and people that do nothing but target pvers ran too many people off the game.

CCP's own results suggest ganking improves player retention (and I think EVE would be in far more trouble if the "just one more nerf to ganking" crowd succeeded in reducing highsec to a completely safe area; EVE's appeal is in being different to every other MMO out there), and there's no fair fights in EVE. Attacking defenseless ships is sound tactics - and since it's player versus player, it's evidently PVP.

[FloatingFatMan]

CCP's own results suggest ganking improves player retention (and I think EVE would be in far more trouble if the "just one more nerf to ganking" crowd succeeded in reducing highsec to a completely safe area; EVE's appeal is in being different to every other MMO out there), and there's no fair fights in EVE. Attacking defenseless ships is sound tactics - and since it's player versus player, it's evidently PVP.

And that's why I stopped playing EVE, before I'd even barely gotten through the tutorial.  Never before have I seen so many ridiculous jerks hanging around in newbie areas and provoking them into doing something stupid, then blowing them into dust.  This is not how you encourage new people to hang around.