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EVE Online
Game » consists of 3 releases. Released May 06, 2003
EVE Online is a loosely structured science fiction MMORPG published by CCP Games in which players take on the role of a spaceship pilot exploring a colonized galaxy.
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This thread is kind of old, but I wanted to provide a little information. First off, I thought I'd post one of my avatars from EVE, which unintentionally came out looking like a young George Takai (awesome):
To answer some questions:
The expansion that contains ambulation (aka "walking in stations" and "Incarna") will be free. All EVE expansions are free. The expense of getting into EVE is usually no more than $20, which includes the client and the first month of a subscription. All expansions are free and they will always be free. CCP releases two expansions per year - approximately six months apart.
The Incarna expansion is expected in Summer of 2011 and is supposed to include ambulation. Of course, when I was playing in 2008, we were hearing that the Apocrypha expansion coming that year would have ambulation, too. Here's the thing about CCP . . . they want an immersive experience that is well thought out and fits the universe. If it can't be done, they'll keep planning it and day-dreaming about it, until they can do it right. If it can't be done right, they won't try it. In this case, they have been planning to have ambulation since about the beginning of the game. It wasn't until recently that technology has started to catch up to the point where they can present the experience they dreamed of. For example, very realistic looking characters with great character creation and jaw-dropping movement.
Along those lines, the first exposure to ambulation in Incarna will be limited. Again, they don't want to overwhelmingly impact EVE. Either with regards to the server resources required or the economic and other aspects of the game that might change by this new aspect of the game. So, the first experience will be taking your avatar out of its pod and into your captain's quarters. How quickly ambulation expands from there in later expansions is entirely unknown.
Here's some fantastic information on what is expected in Incarna, with regards to ambulation and Captain's Quarters:
CCP Developer's BLog: looking ahead: captain's quarters and the road to incarna
And here's a video that demonstrates the clothing and hair, which is impressive. . . But more impressively, look at the girl as she walks down the stairs at the end of the video. The weight and bounce and velocity of her body as it navigates the stairs and takes that final steps is unreal.
In the future, they plan to roll out the ability to walk around stations. And player owned stations. And shop at stores. And play games (they have a really great adaptation of a strategy game that you can play within EVE in these ports as well as expected gambling). In fact, they've mentioned things as cool as being able to sit down at a table in EVE at a station and start gambling. And then someone else can be logged in via their smart phone or a web site, to sit down at the table in EVE in a station and start gambling with you. But since they're not playing via the real EVE client, what you see happening is someone's HOLOGRAM is sitting next to you, gambling with you. Crazy.
And, of course, when Dust 514 comes out (which I don't expect to be a long term success, sadly), console players will be able to conduct FPS battles on their consoles FOR YOU as mercenaries that you have contracted for from within the real EVE game itself, to take over planets and other complexes.
EVE answers a lot of what I have wanted in an MMO and while other MMOs lose me within days or months, EVE retains me. Even when I swear I'm done, because of the time sink, I come back. I've been playing off and on for almost five years, now. I've played a lot of MMOs, but none more than about three months and more often less than a couple weeks. Recently, I played Star Trek Online for less than one week, before I said "why am I playing this, instead of just going back to EVE?" . . . which I proceeded to do.
CCP is doing with EVE what I always dream about doing, if I'm ever Bill Gates rich (well, after I'm done banging every super model and actress under the sun, of course). That is, to make a massive world that isn't here to make big bucks over a five year arc, but is planned to last decades. That keeps evolving. Not by releasing something like "Cataclysm" or by releasing Everquest type expansions -- but by adding expansions that build on the actual mechanics of the sandbox. A world that is less "RPG on a multiplayer server" and is truly "MMO...RPG". One that realizes th significance of a world being aesthetically pleasing, too. They've released entire whole new graphic updates every few years, to keep the appeal alive. Oh, and of course, they even place emphasis on aural mood. I think the in-game soundtrack is something like five or six hours long, by now.
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