Today marks a first in Steam history: EVE Online will be the first MMO offered via Steam.
Steam will offer its users a 21-day free trial of EVE Online. If you decide to subscribe, you will also get a discount.
Valve’s director of business development, Jason Holtman, had this to say: “The team at CCP continues to expand EVE’s universe and gameplay for the legions logging in to play each month, just as we continue to expand Steam’s consumer and developer features.”
I believe that Steam is one of the greatest things to happen to PC gaming; long gone are the days of having to swap disks, let alone drive to the store to buy them.
Read: Steam Goes MMO With EVE Online.
Be sure to read part one!
5. Cheating in EVE Online
Within the world of EVE Online, it’s perfectly acceptable to lie, cheat and steal. So why cheat in the game itself? Continued…
Some poor Icelandic programmer is going to have to undergo the Blood Eagle. Windows XP users who installed the premium Trinity expansion patch for EVE Online had their boot.ini file nuked. The next time they tried to boot up — no operating system. Oops.
Oh, CCP. Þú ættir að vita betur!
The patch has been repaired, and users who haven’t rebooted their machine can fix the problem somewhat easily. But if you tried to reboot, your pooch is screwed.
Trinity updates the graphics engine and adds new ships. Users can keep the old graphics (Trinity Classic) or upgrade (Trinity Premium).
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EVE Online, the world’s most complicated Icelandic sci-fi economic-simulation massively multiplayer online role-playing game, will launch its new expansion, EVE Online: Trinity, on December 5, according to developer CCP.
The free download will be available to all 200,000 of the game’s players. Continued…
