EVE Online honor’s their players in ‘True Stories from the First Decade’
April 3rd, 2013, CCP Games, the world’s leading independent massively multiplayer game developer, had launched True Stories from the First Decade (http://truestories. eveonline.com), in an attempt to let the players and game tell the story of EVE Online. This is the first step of a year-long tenth-anniversary event that will have milestones along the way. April 25-27 will be EVE Fanfest, the big event will be May 6th in celebration of EVE’s 10th anniversary, and then the expansion EVE Online: Odyssey will release on June 4th (www.eveonline.com/odyssey).
EVE’s True Stories website accepts player anecdotes from any and all active EVE Subscribers and is relying on the players to find out the most vivid and popular stories available from the past 10 years of EVE Online. Possibly the coolest part about this event will be that all stories will be archived and even some will be used as inspiration for future media projects such as books, comics, TV and film initiatives wet within the universe that is EVE.
Now-a-days players can take part in the EVE Universe by participating in either EVE Online or DUST 514. With one megaserver hosting it all, it has allowed a type of MMO never before seen. Players in EVE Online, played on the PC, can cooperate with players on DUST 514, played on the PS3, to coordinate tactical strikes against others.
With all of this openness available to players it has allowed players to move and impact the game itself with few limits. The game is pretty much set towards the players imaginations to develop a rich and engaging game. From massive investment betrayals to spontaneous thousand-person fleet battles, players have been able to develop some of the most interesting stories in gaming. As if that weren’t enough, players have even developed and deployed carefully orchestrated assassinations to month long wars that end with expert diplomatic maneuvers.
Torfi Frans Olafsson, Creative Director of the EVE Universe Intellectual Property Group, said:
Our players have entertained EVE’s followers for ten strong years, coming up with the most unique, inventive ideas and then acting them out amongst the stars. They are the backbone of this game universe and we are proud to celebrate their stories both big and small.
Staying true to social media of today, players will be able to tag characters, corporations, alliances, and solar systems in order to flesh out the events of their stories. True Story submissions will be available until May 1st, when voting will open. Voting will last for two weeks and the winner, with the highest-ranked story, will receive a trip to Iceland for two, to visit CCP’s headquarters and experience Iceland first hand.
More information about True Stories from the First Decade and its rewards can be found in this dev blog: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/true-stories-of-the-first-decade/
More information about EVE Online (and a free trial) can be found at: www.eveonline.com
