eve online

Official Site: EVE Online
Studio: CCP Games
Launch Date: May 6, 2003
Genre: Sci-Fi Sandbox
Business Model: Hybrid Free-to-Play (Optional Subscription, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

things are going great

WildStar is probably not sunsetting until at least the end of the year

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When NCsoft announced it was closing Carbine and sunsetting WildStar, it didn't include one key detail: when that sunset will occur. In fact, it...
Boom.

EVE Online revises its online harassment policy, loses another staffer

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CCP Games says it's updated EVE Online's policies governing harassment. The changes came after the player-elected Council of Stellar Management called for a session...

Hyperspace Beacon: What will we see on SWTOR’s ‘ancient Jedi world’?

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Producer Keith Kanneg wrote, "[T]he next phase of the SWTOR storyline will kick off with a bang on the ancient Jedi world." Let's look at the clues that let us know exactly which Jedi world that is, why I am excited to see that world, and what we will likely see on that planet. I don't think I have to mention it at this point, but I will: Possible spoilers ahead, but only if I am right.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 187: The raid in our stars

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's new living world episode, Boundless, EverQuest II, Blizzard, Warframe, EVE Online, SWTOR, the petition to save WildStar, and our big site revamp.
money money money &c

EVE Online dev blog delves into the October balance pass

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The latest EVE Online dev blog is all about the upcoming October balance pass, which will focus on reworking the Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) mechanics,...
Undead tanks. Cool.

Wargaming is building a new ‘free-to-play multiplatform MMO’ in the UK

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It looks as if Wargaming is planning to push even further into the MMO market. According to GIbiz, the company known best for World of...

EVE Evolved: Two ways that EVE Online’s monetisation could be expanded under Pearl Abyss

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When Pearl Abyss bought out CCP Games last week, the overwhelming message to EVE Online players was that it would be business as usual...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: My favorite MMORPG names

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Stuff in MMOs has names. That's... like, a defining feature. We all know that. These games have titles, and they have expansions, and they...

CCP Games discusses EVE Online as a forever game, its 300K players, and its mobile and big screen aspirations

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Variety has a fresh interview with CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petursson on the sale of the company - and its chief asset, MMORPG EVE...
If I had known then what I know now, I... would have felt no different, really, but it might have mitigated stuff.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 186: The perfect storm of MMO news

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Justin and Bree discuss WildStar's sunset, Pearl Abyss' acquisition of CCP and EVE Online, the new Lord of the Rings MMO, THQ Nordic's buy-up of 38 Studios MMO Project Copernicus, the Daybreak NantWorks investment/venture, Old School RuneScape, and MMO emulation.

Jukebox Heroes: Star Citizen’s soundtrack

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With more money than several third-world nations, Cloud Imperium Games and Star Citizen certainly has the luxury of affording the best for its (undoubtedly)...
Money talks, but what it says isn't engaging sometimes.

EVE Online posts its September patch, econ report, and fundraiser for CCP Mankiller

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Whether you think the Pearl Abyss buyout of CCP Games is certain doom or financial security, it's still business as usual in the world...

Global Chat: Why Wizardry Online’s permadeath was a good idea

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Here's an MMO and a feature both long since deceased: Wizardry Online and permadeath. Yet as JVT Workshop argues, it was an underappreciated feature...

EVE Evolved: What could the sale of CCP Games mean for EVE Online?

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Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...
Romantic?

The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Pearl Abyss’ buyout of CCP Games?

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The panic over the impending Pearl Abyss buyout of CCP Games has been palpable for the last 24 hours. The EVE Online Reddit was...

EVE Online developer CCP Games bought by Black Desert Online studio Pearl Abyss

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I bet that's not a headline you expected to wake up to! EVE Online developer CCP Games confirmed this morning that it will soon...

EVE Evolved: How would you reboot EVE Online?

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EVE Online has been pretty comfortable in its hardcore sci-fi MMO niche for over 15 years now, working its way through dozens of expansions and...

The Daily Grind: What major blunders in MMORPG history should future devs study?

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A week or so ago, Justin penned another entry in his long-running City of Heroes historical pieces, and down in the comments, a reader...

EVE Online banned almost 10,000 bots and unauthorized RMT participants this summer

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CCP Games has made communicating just how it's "coming for the bots" in EVE Online a priority all year, both before and after players...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: MMOs with the most needlessly obtuse stats

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One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...

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