Let’s just say Eve has its devotess and leave it at that
very caut… deliberate about what it says. It all goes back to that demonstration of planetary flight almost 20 years ago. “We do have a lot of amazing ideas,” says Pétursson.
“It just doesn’t help anyone to always put them on stage. That is not our job [to say] ‘Look how creative we are and how many amazing ideas we have’. We’re not a think-tank. We should deliver real products to people.”
NEW NEW EDEN? My hunch (and it is just a hunch) is that Awakening is intended as an Eve sequel. Nothing so crude as an ‘Eve Online 2’ that will require the first game to be shuttered, but akin to a new galaxy that might exist simultaneously alongside the current New Eden reality, until such time as its population has either died out or migrated over. That being the case, given Pétursson’s interest in securing CCP’s legacy and New Eden’s longevity, Awakening must in some form be a continuation of Eve and a repository for all that’s been achieved, in-game(s) and out, over prior decades; recorded and tracked in perpetuity thanks to the possibilities of decentralised blockchain technology.
Assuming that’s what Project Awakening is
conceptually about – and it’s a big if, of course – having a framework that might allow Eve to become a sci-fi universe that spans not just decades, but generations – perhaps even independent of CCP control – is genuinely
thrilling even to a die-hard blockchain agnostic like me. It would mean that today’s in-game characters could attain the immortality the lore of the game allows for, maintained by the descendants of today’s players and embellished by their own endeavours. Whether the great-grandchildren
of today’s old Eve farts will be just as invested in the game is perhaps irrelevant. It’s about Eve attaining the characteristics of a virtual city state, one where CCP may have shaped the land, erected a few monuments and written the constitution, but where the players must learn to govern. Whatever your opinion of that as a workable concept – and regardless of how many Fanfests you’ve been to – you have to concede that CCP Games isn’t your typical game developer.
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