I played eve for several years. I quit after the introduction of PLEX created developer-endorsed real money transactions. Not only because it was too tempting to simply spend money instead of playing to recoup my losses, not only because it meant rich people had a huge advantage over poor people, but because it made it possible to assign a dollar value to everything I did in the game. It's one thing to grind an RPG three hours so you can get ten thousand gold and buy a bracelet of fire resistance. It's an entirely separate thing to spend three hours doing something tedious and know for a fact your three hours of work was worth two dollars and eighty cents.
To this day I don't know if CCP killing my enjoyment of the game was a good or bad thing.
To this day I don't know if CCP killing my enjoyment of the game was a good or bad thing.