Eve Online maker CCP Games takes a pass on NFTs in games

Eve On the web maker CCP Games announced nowadays that it will not use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in its online games.

The Iceland-dependent game publisher claimed its objective is to have the Eve universe live on endlessly, and it expects to take a look at new systems above time, as it has completed in the earlier 19 yrs considering that Eve On line initially debuted as a sci-fi massively multiplayer on the web video game.

Hilmar Veigar Petursson, CEO of CCP, reported in the article that the organization has been pursuing developments with blockchain and cryptocurrencies for a a couple of decades and reviewed feed-back from avid gamers. He reported CCP thinks blockchain tech has a large amount of untapped likely, but that also it requirements a large amount of get the job done.

“On that observe, we have no options to include blockchain know-how into Eve Online’s world-wide server Tranquility for the foreseeable long term,” he explained. “For the coming several years, growth for Tranquility will concentrate on making interesting new options on prime of the sturdy basis that has been laid over the previous two a long time.”

He included, “While we keep on being intrigued by the technological innovation, for us, NFT stands for “Not for Tranquility”. In general, the EVE IP will proceed to force the boundaries of digital economies and digital worlds – and we will carry on to investigate that outdoors of TQ.”

While several activity businesses are rushing into the blockchain and NFT gold hurry, a selection of players and match developers have also come out in opposition to working with NFTs because there are a good deal of gaps in the engineering, and the present game titles are scammy or crappy and normally not fit for triple-A gaming.

Here’s the comprehensive assertion from CCP’s Petursson.

There has been a lot of speculation all-around blockchain technology, NFTs and cryptocurrency and what that usually means for the upcoming of EVE On line, so I wished to tackle it.

At CCP, our mission is to have the EVE Universe outlive us all: EVE Forever. A single enormous component of this is discovering new systems and new possibilities – some thing EVE players know that I’m usually fascinated by. This philosophy is rooted in EVE Online’s inception when we made EVE, it was noticed as too radical and bold, nevertheless in this article we are about to rejoice EVE’s 19th anniversary.

Lots of of us at CCP have been subsequent the new frontier that has been developing around blockchains and cryptocurrencies for the earlier handful of years. We’ve go through your comments and we also see what you see – blockchain tech has equally a large amount of untapped likely and a great deal of operate necessary before getting ready for EVE-scale video games.

On that observe, we have no ideas to add blockchain engineering into EVE Online’s world wide server Tranquility for the foreseeable long term. For the coming decades, improvement for Tranquility will target on building enjoyable new alternatives on major of the sturdy foundation that has been laid more than the previous two many years.

While we stay intrigued by the technology, for us, NFT stands for “Not for Tranquility”. Total, the EVE IP will proceed to force the boundaries of digital economies and virtual worlds – and we will continue to discover that outdoors of TQ.

Fanfest is a thirty day period out and personally, I’m really enthusiastic – it’s been two-and-a-50 percent a long time considering that our previous in-human being meet up with, in London all through the EVE World Tour. I seem forward to observing several of you in the flesh again and discuss about EVE and our long run!

Hilmar Veigar Petursson