Eve Online to evolve for 'years'

By Patrick Garratt Published 20 September, 2006

Content update in 'two months'.

CCP, Eve Online's Icelandic developer, has stated its ongoing commitment to the space-race MMO, assuring the game's 300,000 global players that there's no end in sight for content updates and development of the title.

"We release two big expansions a year, and we're going to continue doing that," said company CMO Magnus Bergsson at the Nordic Game event in Malmö, Sweden, yesterday. "We're extremely dedicated to continue having Eve evolve throughout the years. There are no plans to stop developing Eve, because the concept of space travel is timeless. It doesn't go out of fashion."

Those addicted to flying around in the ether pretending to "be in" a galaxy far, far away will also be heartened to know CCP is well on track to deliver its latest free content update.

Our next big release is coming before the end of the year," said Bergsson. "When exactly I don't know: maybe in two months."

The specific content of the upgrade is still under wraps, however, but Magnus promised you won't have long to wait.

"There are of course a huge amount of things we have yet to add to our game which are quite interesting," he said. "We're going to be announcing many of them at our fan-fest in November. We're going to be making some serious announcements. Are you interested in being there?"

Course we are, Magnus. Iceland's supposed to be nice this time of year. Whether we make the trip or not, we'll be sure to bring you all the news from the land of fire and ice. And Eve Online players can rest assured that their favourite waste of time won't be going anywhere soon.

"It's very stable and it just keeps on growing," Bergsson said.

Comments (11) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Iora #1 6 years ago

    ‘And Eve Online players can rest assured that their favourite waste of time won't be going anywhere soon.’


    Okay many people don’t like EVE online or even MMORPG’s, but for someone who allegedly reviews and comments on the gaming scene, that is a ludicrously childish comment to make. All games are fundamentally a waste of time.
    So what exactly is he trying to tell us. Sounds like the sort of comment my Grandfather would come out with all those years ago.
    Maybe you're in the wrong business.

    ohh......and love live EVE...greatest MMORPG ever created.

  • Ginger #2 6 years ago

    Hmm, 2 months is a bit of a slip from the date they've been giving subscribers - still, they've had some problems with the last patch so it's not unexpected.

    There's a massive graphical update due to co-incide with VIsta. If you get a chance to ask about that it might be worth it :)

  • patlike #3 6 years ago

    iora - lighten up. it was supposed to be a "joke". sheesh.

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #4 6 years ago

    I dunno. I think Pat's comment actually demonstrates a subconscious manifestation of his Worthing-centric pro-console anti-MMO bias.

  • patlike #5 6 years ago

    Ginger - I really would like to go over to Iceland for the conference. I'll see if rauper's pockets are deep enough :)

  • patlike #6 6 years ago

    FIRED.

    *fires everyone*

  • Iora #7 6 years ago

    They are currently having some difficulties with their code. Major lag spikes and server shutdowns have been pretty common over the last few weeks.
    Still they insist that they are working on the problem and have a couple of patches ready to be deployed over the next few weeks.

    2 months is a longer time frame for the update than we were originally told. I think this is due to both the current bug fixes and the content update itself being so frikin huge.

    I think originally they had timed the final installment of the 3 part Kali update to co-incide with Windows Vista being released, but that is looking more unlikely as days go by.

    Still CCP are nothing if not completely committed to there game. I have faith that they can deliver.

  • kencleary #8 6 years ago

    Hmmm two more months I have to wait for the Rokh. Well at least it'll let me train up my Gunnery skills!

  • Iora #9 6 years ago

    Have they 100% confirmed that the new tier 3 Battleships and tier 2 battlecruisers will be released in this 1st update?

    I have my eye on the Abaddon.
    Un-nerf Amarr you know it makes sense.

  • Ginger #10 6 years ago

    pat - if you need someone to go for you as a guest reporter I'm happy to *ahem* take the responsibility on :)

  • ave #11 6 years ago

    "assuring the game's 300,000 global players"
    Small correction, that would be 300,000 accounts rather than players.