CCP has offered new information about how its PC sci-fi MMORPG, EVE Online, will link-up to its upcoming console shooter, Dust 514. It’s an ambitious idea, with players from both games interacting directly, and Dust 514 players able to affect the EVE Online world through their actions.
Speaking to Gamasutra, CCP producer Thomas Farrer, explained that Playstation 3 owners who buy Dust 514 will be getting access to the same EVE Online universe, just from a different perspective:
There’s no difference between a Dust corporation and an EVE corporation. It’s the same thing. Dust players can join an EVE corporation. If a Dust player creates a corporation, EVE players can join that corporation. It’s the same thing.
Say if, for example, you only have pilots in your corp, you can quite easily hire a mercenary-only corporation to fight for you. You want them to go and just destroy someone’s things on a planet or take control of them for you, you can do that. You can hire them; you can use them as mercenaries.
Farrer also explained how PC and PS3 users will interact through the two different games:
You know, between the PC and PS3, right now, we already have chat up and running, so players can type and talk to each other. Obviously, we’re working on all of our communication options. EVE mail and Dust mail will be the same thing. You’ll be able to interact via [community portal] EVE Gate, and also VOiP implementation as well.
Read the full interview here.
Generally people in Eve are excited, it just expands without intruding.
Ok, so what are peoples feelings about this? I’m really not sure what this could do to the eve community…