To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand EVE Online. The enjoyment is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the gameplay will go over a typical player’s head. There’s also the game's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into it's conceptualisation- the impersonal and expendable capsuleer concept draws heavily from the Night's Dawn trilogy by Hamilton, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of New Eden's intricate ecosystem, to realise that they’re not just spreadsheets- they say something deep about LIFE and humanity as we know it.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.