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'Eve Online' Studio Acquired By Korean MMO Maker (engadget.com)
MAXOMENOS writes: EVE Online developer CCP Games has been acquired by Pearl Abyss, the South Korean studio behind the action-oriented MMORPG Black Desert Online. According to VentureBeat, the deal was worth $425 million and will close in early October. It's a surprise announcement for CCP, which has long operated as an independent developer. Eve Online isn't the biggest MMORPG on the market, but it has maintained a steady and loyal userbase through continuous updates and a well-timed switch to a hybrid premium and free-to-play model. The 15-year-old game is unique, too, with its large-scale battles and notoriously complex economic and political systems.
Of course they will, trying to attract female players and making it so that characters walk in stations, abomination. I like my MMOs to be like my porn, trapped in 1990s genre conventions. We had riots in Eve to stop the abomination of having characters interact face to face, (actually, it was because of overpriced microtransactions but that's what conservative players bring up every time someone wants to cut themselves out of their pod to stretch their legs) go back to No Man's Sky, you traitors.