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EVE Online: “War on the Impossible”, Part 3: Ambulation

Call it what you want, “walking on stations” or “Ambulation”. Next year, EVE Online is going to let people out of their pods and into the world. We preview both the artistic and gameplay plan for the expansion after next as part of our week long series of reports from last week’s fanfest.

This is the third part in our series. To get caught up, you can check out Part One: Introduction and Part Two: Democracy.

When CCP looked at their game, they realized an overwhelming percentage of their subscribers were male and many people of both genders just could not relate to a game where people primarily identified with a spaceship, rather than a living being. As they continue to try to grow their game, they felt the need to fix the problem, but also did not want to change what made EVE Online so popular.

By design, Ambulation will not change the way people play EVE. They’ve gone to great lengths to ensure they don’t waste their time with graphical representation of functionality already in the game, but instead create new gameplay for those who do wish to get off their ship and see the sights.

Read more after the jump.

Source: www.warcry.com

EVE Online: “The War on the Impossible”, Part One

In the first part of a multi-part week long look, we introduce what we learned at EVE Online Fanfest held last week in Reykjavik, Iceland. There, CCP Games explained a wealth of information on the future of their virtual society, including a look at the upcoming Trinity expansion, the Ambulation and even a democratic initiative within the game.

Check back every day this week for a dedicated, focused feature on a specific aspect of the game’s future.

“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