Eve Online developer and publisher CCP Games officially announced its upcoming massively multiplayer online survival game, Eve Frontier, on Sept. 12.
The game will feature a unique blockchain integration allowing players to create their own self-contained economies in the game with a built-in digital-to-fiat bridge.
This, according to a recent interview with CCP executives, means players will be free to roll their own cryptocurrencies, trade digital assets for real-world commodities and vice-versa.
Community-driven economy
CCP Games revealed details about the game and its “community-driven and dynamic economy” in a recent blog post.
According to the company, players can “create custom currencies, establish markets, and trade assets, services, and reputation in a truly open environment.”
Per CCP Games CEO Hilmar Pétursson:
“EVE Frontier redefines the survival genre by fusing intense space survival gameplay with the limitless emergent potential of a player-driven, persistent sandbox universe. From exploiting space itself to shaping entire economies, every decision ripples across this dark and uncompromising expanse.”
Players will have access to their own spaces where, through internal coding, they will be able to establish their own rules. This extends to what currencies are accepted in these zones and what services are available to players.
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As the core gameplay loop appears to revolve around the tried-and-true formula of obtaining resources with which to build and expand individual player empires, Eve Frontier’s most distinguishing feature may be its player-controlled economy.
Blockchain-enabled
As Cointelegraph previously reported, the game was intentionally designed to be blockchain-capable. However, the company has been reticent to explain exactly what that means until now.
Even in its most recent communication, CCP Games doesn’t mention the underlying blockchain technology that allows server-side player…
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