EVE Online’s ‘walking around in space stations’ dream “not being actively developed”
By Tim Colwill on October 7, 2012 at 2:21 pm
EVE Online‘s Incarna update was supposed to deliver a world where you could stroll around on not just your ship, but on space stations as well, interacting with all the other players, dancing on tables and doing all the sorts of things that MMO players normally do when they see each others avatars. So what happened? Ned Coker from CCP explained that it was all turning out to be a bit too hard.
“When we introduced the idea, we had grand visions of what it might be and we’d expressed that in various ways throughout the year. Then technology and complications became hard realities for us. We aimed pretty high and we met many of our goals, but not many of our gameplay goals. It really became more of a single player experience.”
“As a platform it still works out really well for us,” said Ned, “but based off player feedback we took a step back from our Incarna full development plans. We’ve had a team doing prototyping work on what Incarna gameplay might look like in the context of EVE‘s gameplay. They’ve done a couple of iterations on what that might be, with the ‘EVE-ness’ of it in mind.”
“Incarna and avatar gameplay is definitely not shelved indefinitely, it’s just not being worked on actively in full production right now.”
Source: PCGamesN
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It’s not really the meat and potatoes of eve, but it’d be a shame if there was never more done with it. Even if I was able to go and have a game of chess or play a few rounds of poker (with isk bets). It’d be nice to have some fun stuff to do while waiting around.
I’d like to also point out that if you look to swtor, they found the spaceship sidegame to be quite popular, I think, for much the same reasons.
Eve is all about getting new players with promises of this and that, while leaving all the old gameplay mechanics unfinished and clunky.
Don’t get me wrong, the pvp can be great, just isn’t balanced and never will be.
back to uo for me.
claymore66,
They’re forever balancing. The new patch coming out is nerfing Heavy missles by 20% range and damage.
So you can’t tell me they don’t try and balance.
I also don’t find anything old about the game clunky. That universal inventory is new and utter rubbish.