I have never played EVE Online and seeing how time consuming it is, I'm sure I never will. All the same, I recently read through Empires of EVE, a history of the first few years of the game. While there are fictional AI empires in the game, the book covers the struggles of the purely human factions. And it's surprisingly engaging! These might as well be real world events. And it was cool to see the scale of things escalate from skirmishes of a few dozen ships to epic battles that involved thousands of ships, every one piloted by an actual person in the real world. Backstabbings and betrayals, blockades and political machinations, life obligatons and deadly apathy—it was quite engrossing! If you fall in the middle of a Venn diagram of interest in history and video games, you really ought to read this book.
Not my picture but a cool one for sure!
Oh, and Matt Snee, you'd probably love this 
P.S. In May the author successfully kickstarted a second volume, so there is more goodness to come!
I tried playing this a long time ago. It was fun for a little bit, but when I tried to play with other people I realized I wasn't paranoid enough to be good at this game. 
Seriously though, this game is weird with other people.
But those paranoid people who devote second-job amounts of time to a single game inadvertantly create some compelling stories!
Ha ha i am sure they do!
I have Smite and ESO downloaded on my XBO right now. I'm ready to give MMOs a shot.
My wife was really big into the original release of ESO but fell off during the Morrowind expansion. EVE, however, is wholly unique to itself in the realm of MMOs, I think.
ESO made me link to my email and then I couldn't get the email message on my phone. It's an old email I hardly ever use. i don't want more nonbusiness emails appearing on my regular account. I'll get it straightened out eventually.