EVE Online Gone Gold

April 23, 2003 7:29 AM

Simon & Schuster Interactive let us know that CCP's space MMORPG EVE Online has gone gold (some screenshots can be found here). The game will ship to U.S. and European stores next month. People who beta tested the game are now free to talk about it as well. To celebrate the going gold news, there will be an IRC chat tonight at 4PM CST in #eve-online on the stratics.frws.com server. Producer Mike Wallis is attending.

Maarten Goldstein

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spl

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April 23, 2003 7:55 AM

Uh... WHAT?

There are still way to many bugs as of last night.... unless they fixed them and didn't tell the beta testers?!?
- Maarten Goldstein
  
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  April 23, 2003 7:58 AM
  
  welcome to every mmorpg
- GoofyBoy
  
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  April 23, 2003 7:58 AM
  
  Usually thats the case with MMORPG, make sure you build hype and can handle loads of people, patch later.
  - spl
    
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    April 23, 2003 7:59 AM
    
    Yeah but these are not just bugs, these are exceptions that pop up a zillion windows, and it happens all the time...
    - DrZettl
      
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      April 23, 2003 8:15 AM
      
      They probably just turned off the exception reporting.
      - unmaker
        
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        April 23, 2003 8:20 AM
        
        I'm with DrZettl. It's not *just* the exception windows... it's what the bugs do. Last night I couldn't leave the spaceport I was docked at because the game told me, out of the blue, that I lacked the skill to fly the ship I'd been flying for several days now. Attemtping to leave the port crashed me to desktop. Excellent.
        
        DrZettl
        
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        April 23, 2003 12:15 PM
        
        Don't forget there's a built in patcher (as there is in all/most MMORPG's)
        So basically, in the time that the game goes to manufacturing, the manual/boxes are printed and the game gets shipped, they'll probably cook up another 3 or 4 patches.
        
        I haven't played the EVE beta since a lot of patches back, it was good, but needed a lot of work. Just deleted the BETA off my drive.
- bigimp
  
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  April 23, 2003 12:42 PM
  
  Thank you for your $50 and welcome to Beta Phase 8!
  - Liquid
    
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    April 23, 2003 2:13 PM
    
    As much as I tried to love this game, it wasn't for me. For all it's neatness and cool features, it's still just a MMORPG.