At EVE Online's yearly Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, developer CCP Games announced the 22-year-old MMO's next expansion, Legion. In addition to new ships and quality of life features, Legion looks to offer one of the most creative solutions I've ever seen for getting new players invested in a complex, long-runner MMO: Just put the veteran players in charge.
Members of EVE's player corporations will be able to create missions—collect so much of a material, eliminate players of an enemy faction, etc.—and post them on a "Freelance Jobs" board for unaffiliated players to pick up. Speaking with EVE senior brand manager Ingibjörg Lilja Diðriksdóttir at Fanfest, she called it a "player-driven, player-created gig economy."
