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EVE Online Celebrates Five Years With A Surprise

CCP's EVE Online fans have a "surprise gift" in store for current subscribers who log in after May 6th, to celebrate the game's five-year anniversary. Ooh, what is it?

The MMO biz is a capricious one, and most online games tend toward a naturally short lifecycle. Five years is a big deal for EVE, which distinguishes itself through both its aim to develop a realistic player "society" and its sophisticated in-game economy - they were the first MMO I'm aware of to hire a real-world professional economist in Dr. Eyjo Guðmundsson to manage it, and since then other virtual worlds and online games, such as Gaia Online, have followed suit. Many critics, like the PC gaming mavens of Rock Paper Shotgun, believe the industry can learn a lot from EVE.

Full release follows the jump, in which CCP has delineated what it considers EVE's "milestones" over its five-year run.

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12:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Leigh Alexander
5,906 views, 34 comments

Latest by M. Kava: I really enjoyed EVE when I played the two-week trial but the speed of the game was honestly too slow for me. I've played space-based MMOs before (Space Federation, anyone? Early 2004 vet right here.) and this one was solid, really solid, but just too damn slow. At the end more »