Hey, so I made an account specifically to post this. Although I personally have never played the game, there was a massive war in EvE online a few years back which is definitely a part of gaming history, and at this point in time holds the record for the biggest battle ever in a video game.
The war was full of alliances, betrayal, politics and deception. The scale of this was absolutely massive and honestly, comparing it to world war 2 would be pretty accurate in my opinion. Its something that really cant be explained as well in text but this video does a really great job at covering all sides of the war
Its over 20 minutes long, but its the only video I found that actually gives an accurate account of the war in both scale and how it effected the game at the time.