Our latest coverage of Eve Online.
Last year was the year that EVE Online went free-to-play and I'm sure that you're all wondering how it's done since then. Fortunately for you, CCP Games' financial results for the full year of 2016 were released yesterday and they show an increase in both revenues and daily active users. According to Gamesindustry.biz, the company's 2016 revenues were $86,135,976, an [...]
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Miscreant drug dealers are holding their annual Guardian's Gala, celebrating the rising narcotics market, and CONCORD needs EVE Online capsuleer's help to stop them. The Serpentis and Angel Cartel have gone too far. Players can hunt down Gala events to earn unique rewards, including a special SKIN for Gallente ships, and all the sought after performance enhancing narcotics you can stuff [...]
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Apparently CCP Games—the development studio responsible for EVE Online—is considering selling itself according to a report in Bloomberg. What a twist, and only a few weeks after the launch of EVE Online's free-to-play tier. The closely held company’s owners, which include European investor Novator Partners LLP, U.S. investment fund General Catalyst Partners LLC and venture capitalist New Enterprise Associates Inc., are discussing [...]
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This past Sunday EVE Online's Tranquility server broke 50,000 concurrent players. It's not an all-time record but it is an impressive high in recent months. The current record is still set at just over 65,000 players, set back in May of 2013. It doesn't look like we'll be breaching that one just yet but the Ascension update has certainly given [...]
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The day has finally arrived, EVE Online's Ascension update has been patched in and new players can fly through space—for free. A new player experience, with voice acting, will guide newbies through the game's multitudinous ways to play so you don't feel lost among the stars. Keep in mind, free accounts will be restricted as far as what skills they [...]
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EVE Online's Executive Producer CCP Seagull published a development update asking players to remember patience ahead of tomorrow's huge Ascension Update; the update that will allow a deluge of free-to-players to roam the stars and inevitably find themselves dead or lost. With any update, there are unexpected hurdles but I'm sure things will be smoothed quickly. Many EVE Online veterans [...]
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Eve Vegas 2016 is underway and we're hearing some details about Eve Online's upcoming Ascension Expansion: the expansion that opens Eve Online to everyone by including a free-to-play tier. New ship SKINs will be available in the New Eden store, with more to release after the expansion. Also, current skins will see a "massive" price drop. The recruit program will be improved [...]
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The day I line up at the ballot box to vote for myself—November 8th—is also the day Eve Online is launching its next expansion, Ascension, which will allow pilots to roam the galaxy for free. Free players' skill points will be handicapped, enabling them to pilot select ships: Frigates, Destroyers, and Cruiser. If they want to unlock their full potential—launching [...]
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Eve Online—the cold, harsh, unforgiving space social simulator of an MMO—announced that it will be offering a free to play option for players to partake in their grand space opera. CCP Seagull, the executive producer, announced the introduction of Alpha clones. With this new feature, players will be able to maintain their presence in the game world albeit in a [...]
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CCP Games may be adding a free-to-play option to EVE Online in November, but that doesn't mean that they have forgotten about their loyal subscribers. Anyone who subscribes before September 16th and maintains an active subscription until the launch of Clone States in November will receive several "loyalty gifts." These gifts include the "Gnosis exploration battlecruiser," the "curious Apotheosis shuttle," a [...]
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