Dust is dead, Valkyrie is dead. The graphics card thing was "walking in stations", which they were going to adapt to make the World of Darkness MMO, but that too is dead and White Wolf has been sold back off.
EVE right now is worse and better than ever.
The game meta is essentially bifurcated. At the small group level, the game has never been better. Between abyssal deadspace, pochven, and various changes to lowsec and wormholes, if you can get a few doods together to do a thing, you'll have a great time.
But nullwar is in a bad spot. Beeitnam illustrated the problems, that once again it's a defender's game and that the N+1 problem is still very much alive.
But to answer your specific question about why I'm not harder on CCP...
It's mere existence is a tacit admission that business in western democracies is over-regulated, for otherwise these people would be out there 1099'ing real bux instead of space bux.
Why shouldn't designer digital jeans cost as much as real ones?
They're learning tho. If they ever need more dough all they need to do is release Hazard Control skins for Caldari and Goons will splurge another hundred million.
I've walked away from far better games than anything Square has made.
There's only one company I have some loyalty to, and that's CCP Games.
Why? Because frankly this is a company that has failed bigger and harder than any other games developer ever, to the point where their mistakes are hilarious as long as you remember to keep your client stopped for a few days after any major update, just in case.
EVE once rolled out an update that deleted boot.ini, and another update was so poorly optimized it was putting graphics cards into thermal shutdown.
It gets weird after the books of the north.
Consider the entire series as a bowel movement. The first three books (the books of the north) were solid and well formed. The subsequent installments (the books of the south) were chunky explosive diarrhea. And then once they started traveling the plain between worlds it found some substance again, but it's now rainbow colored and the blood pressure of constant exertion has made your brain see stars and you can hear the refrain of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds playing in the distance.
The first three books (available as one book) of the Black Company series by Glen Cook. It follows a band of mercenaries serving BBEG told from the perspective of Croaker, the company's sawbones.
It's an interesting series because the power level is so disparate. This is a setting where resurrection, daemonic possession, and displays of fire wizardry on par with WW2 bombing are normal, yet the best the company can manage is chopping up their undead immortal enemies and burying the body parts far enough apart that it'll take a few years to be a threat again.
All ten books (don't worry, individually they're not very big books) were recently translated to english.
It's basically Napoleonic warfare in space as a backdrop for the author's discourse about the relative merits of republican democracy vs dictatorship.
Stop being so damn afraid of your respective governments. Stop being afraid to step on official toes, and to work outside the fucking law, in particular the emergency powers that these megalomaniacs have given themselves. Stop telling others to be afraid, or "You really don't wanna do that, bro". Sure, call out violence
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We have reached the point where the only logical recommendation is violence.
And that's a bit of a problem, at least for me because I agree with the peace church interpretation of Christ's teachings.
So at best all I can do is look the other way and think may god love you and your cause, you bloody damned fools.
One that I like to harp on is Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar.
The people behind that project were skilled, on the level of professional production talent. But they poured their talent into a property they don't control. Now imagine if instead those people had set out to build something entirely new. I'm not saying they'd be automatically successful. But if they had created a wholly new IP with a compelling story and that level of production quality, it wouldn't go unnoticed. They might inadvertently create the NEXT big thing.
The Expanse is a new big thing and people drink that shit up like Busch Light.
And what is the failure you're saying the market isn't solving?
If this is about ruined intellectual properties, I've LOOOOONG felt that people have been far too myopic about franchises. If there is a problem with SJWs subverting existing properties, the problem is that the multitudes are not using the technologies at their disposal to create new things.
So it is sadomachistic.
See, this is why this movement that you're hoping for will never start because the first mover disadvantage inhibits there ever being someone to make the first step.
You don't want revenge, you want power over others.
Almost.
I'm pointing out its efficacy.
All morality is self-denial.
Basically, I have the highest respect for those who live for peace and passively accept the world as it hits them. After them I have respect for those who live for power, who seek to impose their agency on the world. They're beneath me, but I acknowledge that they live according to their philosophy.
The lowest are those who believe themselves to have no power. The "I can't change anything" "what good would it do" types.
I don't "love" violence. But I acknowledge freely that it works, and frequently works quite well.
If my position seems strange it's because I'm not a consequentialist. Most culture warriors (both SJWs and Pedes) ARE consequentialists. And it's in consequentialism that the whole "if I do this, I'll get killed/convicted and that would be bad" question becomes pertinent.
If every religious figure in history from Abraham to Jesus to Joan of Arc had been consequentialists then there wouldn't be religion at all (well, aside from marxism, the OG consequentialist faith).
Well then let's scratch out your previous claim to wanting revenge as as misphrasing.
If you merely wanted revenge, if you just wanted to harm those you feel harmed you, you wouldn't be concerned with the larger picture.
I'd like to suggest that what you really want is either simply to have power, or the sadomachistic thrill of using it.
There's nothing wrong with this, but it's best to be honest and direct about what one's objectives ARE.
but if it inflicts misery on them, it's justice
Per Schopenhauer, retributive harm is not justice.
Justice is only ethical when it is focused on the future, not the past, with the aim of deterrence. There is no cosmic scale that is set out of balance and made right by revenge. Revenge is always morally indefensible.
In the bad old days, everyone rolled achura because they had the lowest possible charisma score of 3.