EVE Online: Ascension Is Live: Free To Play Activated

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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 can train, meaning what ships they can fly. Not that it'll matter. If you play long enough to hop into a battlecruiser I would imagine you'll feel okay paying for a subscription.

"EVE Online is a very special game. Our single shard server means that every player truly affects every other, whether through economics, resource gathering, direct combat or social interaction," notes Executive Producer Andie Nordgren. "This in turn means that our universe is more interesting, more exciting and more dangerous with each additional citizen."

The Ascension update is one of the biggest in EVE's history, and I hope to see the influx of new players in my crosshairs—once they get the hang of flying through space.

Will you be trying EVE Online for the first time, or are you a veteran eager to see the stars one more time?

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