Its not all great or bad tho. In order to "matter" in EVE you basically have to sacrifice your first-born and pledge eternal servitude to the almighty all-nighter. You simply cant play it (filthy) casually and hope to be of any importance or having any kind of impact. ED on the other hand allows you to play when you WANT without having the feeling to miss out on stuff.
EVE along with WoW taught me that video gaming can go too far and how easy it is to get caught in those loops.
When I said everything you do in Eve matters, I didn't mean a single player can have an easy impact in the grand scheme of things.
Taking from my own mining example, in EVE every bit of ore that a player collects and brings back will in fact be used for something (even if, and most likely, by someone else). There is a real economy. In ED, it doesn't matter one iota if there is a million players mining stuff, or not a single player mining anything, the end result is the same: it doesn't matter at all, the universe will stay just the same.
It doesn't matter if thousands of players show up to evacuate a burning station, or if nobody shows. You can't even tell if your efforst have succeeded, or have any sense of urgency (like knowing that there's still X thousand people to evacuate and the station will explode in X hours). Every single activity in ED is like a ride in a theme park, when the music stops it all resets itself, and whatever you did disappears into the void.
Thats the kind of stuff where Eve is simply better, from the largest to the tiniest scale, everything still has a purpose. Of course, as a spaceship flying game ED is miles better.
