Press for CCP Games
The trade deficit is soaring. Home sales are plunging. Companies uncertain about the future are sitting on growing piles of cash rather than hiring or expanding. Those are the sorts of recent trends that have been adding to the malaise stemming from still-high unemployment and slumping financial markets.
You might remember that we told you last month that CCP was going to allow players to transport PLEX in their ships. If you don’t recall what PLEX is, it’s basically 30 days worth of game time that can be traded in-game for ISK, the currency of EVE. The introduction of PLEX was an innovative way to allow players to basically buy currency in-game. If you haven’t played EVE Online, here’s an important piece of information: if your ship is destroyed, there is a random chance that any cargo and ship attachments will survive the explosion, allowing them to be looted by the player who took you out. Obviously, this is an incentive for players to attack other players, and a risk if you’re transporting any PLEX in your cargo hold.
There's talk that EVE Online developer CCP is to lift the lid on its World of Darkness vampire MMO at a fan convention in September.
Online gamers received quite the scare last week when Blizzard announced it would require message board posters to use their real names. This was to be done in order to fight the scourge of online anonymity. The Internet freaked out, of course, so much so that Blizzardeventually changed its mind. I mention this up to not open old wounds, but to take the time to remind you of this: there are other MMOs in the world besides World of Warcraft. In fact, I’ve been playing one such MMO, the outer space-themed Eve Online(developed by Iceland’s CCP Games), for several days now. Come, let us enter a world (universe, really) of spaceships, cross-galaxy pirate raids, and Astronomical Units!