EVE General Discussion

Friends,

You all remember the game „Eve Online“ (I know for a fact that some of you do at least) that we started in 2003, with the intention of – as the title subtly hints at - developing a spaceship based MMORPG.

As a game developer, we started this project with the full intention of pushing it through no matter what. Then Trinity came with the boot.ini thing, the whole Dominion experience, the Incarna launch, and all that followed. The previous summer period was extremely hard in terms of securing any „extra“ time from developers working on WoD and Dust to spend on working on the FiS portion of EO, and it‘s not going to get any easier. Releasing a proper expansion takes a lot longer than many would expect because often you get second thoughts about clothing that you want to research, or you want to polish your monocle so it´s clear and easy to see out of.

Long story short, we grossly underestimated the time it would take to properly develop such a game, and overestimated the man hours we would be able to secure. And we learned a few valuable lessons along the way. One of them being never to use the word „soon™“ unless you KNOW the result.

It is time to step up and admit defeat and apologize - we will not be continuing development on this game. Statistically speaking the project was two thirds of a failure. We released 15 expansions, despite repeated attempts at securing manpower. I can only hope that the expansions we did release made all of this at least somewhat worth it for some of you.

We‘ll go back to the drawing board and figure out different ways to do similar things in the future. To those that took part, waited, and never got what they came for, I humbly offer my most sincere apologies; I ask that you join us in WoD and our new console shooter Dust: 514 2

-Seeseepee