I could talk for weeks about the sheer nepotistic corrupt bullshit in the early years, when an Ayn Rand roleplaying group (not kidding, they were called "Taggart Transdimensional") got unique advantages from the devs that no one else could access all in the name of "roleplaying." They conjured up fictional characters that gave those advantages (the very first and exclusive t2 mining laser blueprint originals) to their Randroid favorites, and over and over again changed the rules to fit their favorites, year after year.
The dystopian corruption of the setting was coming from inside the development company.
Fredrik Knudsen's video on EVE is really fascinating stuff, though more focused on in-universe events. I don't recall him even bringing this up in the vid which seems like a huge miss, I just recall various claims of admins giving benefits to certain users unchecked for a while. Also tracks with the monetization changes the devs made that universally pissed off their whole playerbase, unironic lolbertarians are wild
Oh that video is amazing and it recapped so much that I didn't see for myself after I quit the game in disgust around "Tyrannus," which was appropriately named because it was a staggering number of "protect the country club" rules changes to make sure the company's favorite in-game failsons were protected from invasion in a way where they could just press a button and prevent invasions entirely as long as they were rich enough.
there was your mistake
You fucking nerds made a 5 hour video about a fucking game
... a game that has people and their families sent death threats and years of toxic shit due to the profit motive of the game's cash out system
I'm glad I left. It started as a Randroid wet dream, even in its fiction, and that was always the point.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: