EVE Online: “The War on the Impossible”, Part One (Princess Eve)
May 5th, 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
Fighting Intensifies In and Around Etherium Reach
ZZ5X-M, Etherium Reach – Morhus Mihi [RAWR], Majesta Empire [ME], The Initiative. [INIT.], Imperial Republic of the North [IRON], Wildly Inappropriate [WI.], Red Alliance [RED], GoonSwarm [OHGOD], Sc0rched Earth [BYRN], and United Legion [UNL] have been at war with the Intrepid Crossing [IRC] and Ethereal Dawn [ED] alliances for the past several weeks. Fighting has intensified over the past few days as reports indicate that massive resources have been diverted to escalate this war.
Observers report that in addition to varied support vessels, capital ships and super capital ships have been deployed to the Etherium Reach, Insmother and Geminate regions. There have been heavy losses, with estimates pointing toward a combined total of at least 400 ships lost in the past week alone, including the destruction of 16 dreadnoughts, 7 carriers and an Intrepid Crossing Aeon class mothership.
Although the cause of the war is unclear, fighting continues around the clock between these former allies. We will provide additional information as it becomes available
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Source: www.eveonline.com
