Eve Online: Trying To Lure Old Players Back Into The Game
EVE Online is a sci-fi spaceship-themed MMORPG by CCP Games, famous for running on just one enormous clustered server, and soon EVE’s 14th free expansion is coming out. So CCP wants you back! If you ever played EVE Online, that’s it. I’ve started playing it around 2005, so they keep spamming me with new offers all the time… Anyway, today CCP starts another of their “come back, we are white and fluffy now!” – returning players get 5 days of free game time to see if CCP is really all white and fluffy now. The offer stands until November 21st and those who used it also get a discounted 60 days subscription price. Funny how they made it up to 60 days for $19.95 now, old “returning campaigns” were supplied with a discount for 30 days subscription ($9.95 or something like that).
Here’s a list of what CCP is promising us (from the promotional email I’ve got):
- Sansha’s Nation Invades! – The war has escalated and Sansha’s Nation has stepped up its game. Pilots can expect to square off against new ships, a smarter AI and deeper, objective-based PvE gameplay.
- Advanced character creation system – Re-invent yourself with the new character creation system, featuring cutting edge 3D technology. Sculpt and create the perfect you.
- New ships and blueprints – The Noctis, a dedicated salvager, arrives on the market in ship and blueprint form, while blueprints for deadly Sansha starships await those who engage the hostile Incursion forces.
- Environmental Solar System Effects – Sansha’s Nation brings devastating constellation-affecting technology, crippling active modules and weapons in use. The stronger their forces, the stronger their ability to tilt the war in their favor. Defeat them and restore the balance.
- New EVE Gate features – Major additions and enhancements, including integration of new feature-rich forums. This expansion also heralds the arrival of EVE Voice to the web, exclusively in EVE Gate.
Come on, a new character creation system? Do they really think i’m going to jump at that offer? I have spent 4 years developing a character, don’t think i’m up for repeating this task from the scratch again.
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