EVE Online: “The War on the Impossible”, Part One
August 21st, 2009“War on the impossible,” is the company’s latest mantra, according to CEO Hilmar Petursson. But, EVE Online has always defied expectations. It launched as a shell of a game to a very limited to subscriber base, yet while most games follow a very predictable life cycle, EVE refuses to quit growing. As of last week, the game has 197,773 subscribers, up substantially from last year. It creates a growth chart that looks more like Google’s stock price than the typical bump and decline most games see.
Part of this success is how the world of EVE has taken on a life of its own. While most games divide their players between servers for technical and gameplay reasons, CCP capitalizes on the infinity of space and runs a world that recently hit 37,290 concurrent players logged in. The value of this is not just technical, and their Fanfest demonstrates the fact perfectly.
Read part one after the leap.
Source: www.warcry.com
New player experience
Jamanticus:
You know also that you can re-roll now if you want and create a toon with 800k sp (as opposed to a measly 50k) and still have that training time bonus for another 800k sp when Apocrypha arrives, right?
Do what Jaman says. Reroll now, it seems like a good idea to wait, but it isn’t. If you check out the official boards people are rollin’ alts like mad men.
Source: eve.warcry.com
Come join us on SISI for Apocrypha 1.5 testing!
Over the coming weeks our QA Dept will be conducting rigorous testing of Apocrypha 1.5 on Singularity. Live testing on Singularity is important for us to effectively stress test changes for this upcoming release and to ensure that they work correctly. We are looking to get at least 100+ players participating in these events, but if we get 400 then we will have much better results. If you wish to participate then please see the Test server information thread in our Test Server Information channel. A full list of details and dates is available at this thread courtesy of CCP Tanis.
Source: www.eveonline.com