I have a confession: I have been covering EVE FanFest and EVE Online for years, but I had never played the game beyond the first small section. Something about twenty years of history and the repeated mention of Excel spreadsheets made the game seem so wildly inaccessible, even to a girl who has been gaming and playing MMOs most of her life. This can be true of a lot of long-running games, but something about EVE Online seems especially intimidating, even now.
Even Fenris Creations knows this, having said that many new players “will often have read stories about how ruthless and cutthroat New Eden can be, or even specific stories of new players being destroyed in highsec space.” Yet, when I load up the EVE launcher, I am met with nearly 30,000 players logged in at any given moment. And that got me thinking about how many amazing games players have been missing out on because they were too intimidating at first glance.
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