At this years EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, CCP in their keynote speech have once again shared their ‘future vision’ of EVE. It’s impressive stuff, and the prospect of intertwining planetary combat in a massively multiplayer first person shooter (Dust 514 is CCP’s console shoot-em-up based on the EVE universe) that physically impacts on EVE Online is a bewildering technical feat, but something I still can’t see them pulling off. I’ve put a little information on Dust 514 below, but …
Picking out Steerpike’s sentiments of freedom within a videogame, it took me back to when I first started playing online video games. Ultima Online was my first, and a game which at the time gave the impression of unparalleled freedom…