You don't need children or to wait X years to feel the need to do a last will, anyone could die tomorrow, and they might want to make things "right" just in case that happens.

The problem is: Would you leave your valuable WoW/EVE/whatever stuff to your brother/friend/whoever and risk being killed by them to get your "Phat L00t"?

That would add a new depth to the expresion. "I killed my bro for the l00t!!!"

Tell Blizzard to allow people to play offline, and if they change their mind, i'll name my firstborn after you ;) (and second and third if you want)

Because right now you have to login to their servers to play single player, and since the autentication servers are overloaded they just reject most of the connections, so you have to try a hundred times to get logged in. A queue would somewhat aleviate that problem.

Seriously, that stupid online single player idea is a damn fuckup...

So they told us that having to connect to their servers to play in single player mode wouldn't be a problem, that we should trust them.

And now the EU login server is melting under the pounding of thousands of angry players trying to play solo.

And to add insult to injury they didn't even have the nice idea of implementing queues like most similar systems do..

Not algae, Chtulhu farts!!!

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If they seize 43k items of merchandise, that means the average value for the caps, shirts and stuff on the photo is more than 100$ each... WTF???

Following a similar logic, using a scredriver to sabotage the cooling circuit of a nuclear reactor is a weapon of mass destruction too....

If you need a very specific set of coincidences for it to kill a big number of people, then, it's not a weapon of mass destruction.

I fell that my mom doesn't love me en....err

I mean...

I feel mighty and powerfull, and pansies who try to psychoanalysis me will perish under my boots!!! Yeah...

Mommy?

Dude, you're asking for way more than the average troll can manage. You expect this AI to be with the cream of the trolls and i think that's a bit too much :P

Forgot to add that the game has few real moneysources (economy wise)

Mission rewards.
Bounties (you get this by killing "evil" NPCs).
A few select items that can be sold to NPCs, like dogtags and similar items (unlike most other MMOs, NPCs in eve don't buy most of the crap you can farm, you have to sell those to another player, or use them yourself one way or another, like recycling for raw minerals)
Insurance fraud (and they're killing this one in the next patch).

There are many other ways a player can make money, but it always comes from other players at the end.

Moneysinks:
Skillbooks (required to start learning new skills).
Blueprints (the base of all and everything in this game, without them you can't build anything).
Loyalty stores (some of the best items have to be bought here with cash).
Taxes in various forms (everytime you sell something, the game gets a cut, sation rentals, production rentals, etc...).
Fuels of various kind for player owned structures (this will change with new patch but it will be a diferent moneysink, with export taxes).
Cloning costs.
Ship insurance (if you manage to keep your ship alive for the 3 month period of the ship insurance, and yes i know about insurance fraud, but that doesn't apply to rigged ships or tech 2/ tech 3)

About the gear just one word "destruction". Everytime your ship gets destroyed, it's gone forever, you have to get a new one, and half of the equipment gets destroyed too, the other half "drops" so you can recover it (or the bastard that just ganked you :P). And this being a game with a huge PvP factor, you can bet a loooot of stuff gets "erased" everyday. (Usually this would fight inflation too in most games, but since about 99% of the materials for crafting are player generated one way or another...)

You mean just like they have been in business for the last 7 years?, with an always growing playerbase (yes, it's small compared to WoW, but very few occidental MMOs come close to eve).

Now check how many MMOs have been alive for more than 3 years.

Also, I can't believe no one has mentioned that you can your monthly subscription with INGAME money, that is, you farm cash doing missions and it pays your subscription. When you start, the amount required sounds like a lot of cash, but with some experience and help from a friend (Drake FTW) you can be making the required cash in about 3 months, and from that point you effectively play for free ;) (at this point you can make the required amount of cash in about 20-30 hours a month wich isn't that much for most MMO players).
Once you've been in the game for 6-9 months you make the cash in about 10-15 playtime hours total, or maybe 1-2 hours if you play the market game ;)

Exactly the same amount of energy it required to accelerate, but applied in the oposite direction, you just have to start deceleratin soon enough.