A recurring thought cycle of mine:
- Man, EVE Online always *looks* so neat, but the gameplay kind of sucks
- There's so much potential, surely if they stopped centering it around anarchocapitalism, it could be a much better game
- ... wait, there actually *isn't* a lot of game beyond the anarchocapitalism
@joepie91 in a lot of ways "murder/capitalism simulator" is the easy mode of game design
@joepie91 applies to a lot of early MMOs tbh. sounds fun but is in the end set up so that only the top 5% or so of players can actually have fun and the rest is doing busywork.
i especially like the contrast to more recent small-server multiplayer games like minecraft or valheim or what have you, which feel like they occupy the same niche MMOs used to have except in a more anarchist way.
I guess I just kind of like the visual/audio/etc. design and wish it were applied to a better game