Olafsson Talks to Rock, Paper, Shotgun →
Great interview. Not a lot of new info on the expansion front, but some interesting talk about the nature of EVE at the start. Olafsson on why more MMO’s don’t attempt the elusive “EVE model”:
It would be incredibly hard to do a big launch on a sandbox game. These kinds of games rely on social structures to work. You can’t go straight to a million players in this way when there are a million strangers. A million subscribers… you need to grow from a smaller number, to grow relationships, not just the world.
I wholeheartedly agree. The closest I can recall of another game doing this the right way is Fallen Earth, and it’s arguable how ‘sandbox’ that game is.
