Eve Online could last 50 years

By Oli Welsh Published 21 February, 2008

Also: first details on CCP's next.

CCP's Reynir Hadarson has told videogaming247 that he doesn't see why the Icelandic company's space-trading MMO, Eve Online, shouldn't run for half a century.

Asked if Eve Online could still achieve new things, he said "Absolutely, we will just keep building on top of it. MMOs do not have to age. The nature of a game like Eve is that there is no need for sequels - why shouldn’t it run for fifty years?"

CCP recently released the 'Trinity' update for Eve, which offers an optional update to the graphics engine, as well as new content for the game.

Hadarson also spoke a little about World of Darkness, which is to be CCP's second MMO. It's being developed at a new, second studio in Atlanta, and is based on the contemporary vampire universe of the pen-and-paper role-playing game created by White Wolf. CCP and White Wolf merged in 2006.

Hadarson said the game would "be as real as it can be", and follow Eve's footsteps in creating a simulated real-world economy. "The key is human interaction," he said. "World of Darkness shares that vision."

He also said that the game would be as much of a leap of ambition as Eve was when it launched.

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  • myiagros #1 4 years ago

    good luck to them

  • M83J01P97 #2 4 years ago

    They could have come up with a name that made the new MMO stand out from World Of Warcraft...

  • kangarootoo #3 4 years ago

    Err.. yeah, I guess it could do.

  • agparrot #4 4 years ago

    I do sort of miss Eve Online... but if it was still in my life, there'd be no time for other games, really.

    Just the odd penchant for firing up the Enyo - used to run with another Enyo-jockey and go hunting for stray thorax's in low-sec space...

    No, No.... sorry, but I'm not going back.

  • Wolfman #5 4 years ago

    "The key is human interaction" ... in a game based on Vampires! Ironic! ;)

    -wolfman

  • jiveguy #6 4 years ago

    50 years from now I want to be in actual real life space, sitting for hours in front of a giant grey rock.
    Edited by 1 at 21/02/08 @ 16:54

  • kangarootoo #7 4 years ago

    The White Wolf system is pretty good as it happens, which may make some or no difference at all in the big scheme of things. I believe the Vampire system has changed a fair bit since I knew anything about it, for better or worse I don't know.

  • souljah #8 4 years ago

    Stop that, agparrot! Stop that right now!


    /gets cravings for crusader ganks

  • MightyMouse #9 4 years ago

    I loved pretty much every idea in EVE but if they want their new MMO to be more successful then they'll need a better UI and a slightly faster pace. A shame really since it was so much better than WoW in every other way.

    edit @zoidberg: Fair enough, I know a lot of people do love it and you could say it's better as it is, but a bit more accessibility would have greatly increased the number of subscribers imo.
    Edited by 1 at 21/02/08 @ 18:02

  • FWB #10 4 years ago

    EVE is good. A real player generated universe.

    I just don't have the time for a MMO.

  • zoidberg #11 4 years ago

    MightyMouse, the UI in eve is perfect.

  • RedPanda #12 4 years ago

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  • Nookyalar #14 4 years ago

    5 days playing EVE <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=92663&q uot;> feels like you've been there 50 years anyway, clicking, mining researching...

  • Slamhound #15 4 years ago

    I read while also on my computer. Usually it's the choice article in a magazine that I keep handy next to my desk, but sometimes it's a book from my modest collection of novels. Now, left to my own devices I can read an average-length novel in under a day, but even map loading in a Source game isn't enough to make significant progress in a book. Not even taking the longest imaginable flight path in WoW is enough. I never finish a book from cover-to-cover at my computer desk, at least not normally.

    Gentlemen, there have only been only a couple of times when I have been sat at a desk, occasionally glancing at a screen, for long enough to actually finish a book, from dedication to epilogue; and two things are direct causes of that. The first is a complete system backup/wipe/reinstall, and the other is whenever I get an odd desire to play a trial of EVE.

    Hours and hours of watching various progress bars crawl to their inevitable climax, but only in one case do I actually have something of tangible worth to benefit from. In fact, if someone somehow managed to release a Windows install disk that simulates an average playing session of EVE, I doubt anyone would seriously notice the difference.

    If I seriously want to find time to finish a book I've been considering for a while, I either download EVE, or a virus. That said, only one of those ultimately results in a faster boot time.

  • Trikk #16 4 years ago

    They could have come up with a name that made the new MMO stand out from World Of Warcraft...

    I hope you're not this retarded. Seriously.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #17 4 years ago

    Trikk I wouldn't worry about it, after all this time people still think that everything in the world is related and is trying to copy WoW even things that came out 25-30 years before (ie Warhammer) I'm just waiting on 'Lucus Arts used Warcraft to make Starwars' or 'Tolkin ripped off Warcraft' by some 12 year old that only knows the online world via WoW and his 360

  • lolfish #18 4 years ago

    Good game but I made myself quit because it was simply too addictive. I just found myself playing EVE at the stupidest times.

    No more EVE for me thanks. 1 year was quite enough of my life - 50 would be extreme overkill.

  • TSYNDMonkfish #19 4 years ago

    I loaded up EvE just after the Trinity expansion came out a few months back after 1.5 years away from the game - just to take a look at the new graphics..

    Rather predictably, Ive got right back into it & its completly taken over all my game time again..

    Cant wait to see what they do with the Vampire game in the works.

  • Pihls #20 4 years ago

    well consider the backup CCP have and the cash flow who are more then Blizzard have / there ideas Yeas it can run for 100 years