In an expanded documentary produced in collaboration with PC Gamer, CCP Games is providing a deeper look at the hardcore space survival MMO EVE Frontier after its showing at the 2024 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. This more unforgiving and zoomed-in sister game to EVE Online is also in the middle of a 10-day free trial of its closed alpha, allowing players to try it out for themselves without committing to an early access founder pack until February 24.
EVE Frontier is using blockchain, a technology I'd otherwise written off entirely, but it distinguishes itself from the wave of low-rent Web3 projects and questionable Ubisoft or Square Enix efforts we saw in the early 2020s. The developers at CCP have actually articulated a vision of what they want Frontier to be, and why they think blockchain needs to be a part of it. With Frontier, CCP is proposing an MMO built on moddability, with immutable rules CCP calls "digital physics" in place to preserve the game's balance without requiring constant developer intervention.
