This "meta gaming" (game outside the real game) is a very very important and integral part of EVE. A very popular thing to do is play as a "spy" or do those or other kinds of scams. The biggest alliances in EVE were destroyed from within by such spies.
Actually CCP is doing incredible work in terms of game design allowing a lot of freedom of how you want to play the game and also game development considering you can have more than a thousand players (more or less...) actively fighting against each other.
In terms of trying new things and advancing games and sheer depth, EVE should be far more popular than WoW which was and still is nothing new, just a clever combination of existing things... but EVE can be too damn serious to play and has way less subscribers.
Actually CCP is doing incredible work in terms of game design allowing a lot of freedom of how you want to play the game and also game development considering you can have more than a thousand players (more or less...) actively fighting against each other.
In terms of trying new things and advancing games and sheer depth, EVE should be far more popular than WoW which was and still is nothing new, just a clever combination of existing things... but EVE can be too damn serious to play and has way less subscribers.