EVE Echoes Blasts Off With Developer Interview

With the launch window for eve echoes isk this ambitious mobile MMO now set in stone, we took the opportunity to speak to a number of the developers that made EVE Echoes possible. EVE Echoes is the result of a strategic partnership between both NetEase and CCP and marks a new spin off for an IP that's weathered the storm when it comes to online gambling. Driven by a love of the EVE world and a very seasoned team at NetEase, EVE Echoes is set to squeeze all the excitement of this mainstay EVE experience onto iOS and Android apparatus this August.

For CCP, this represents a huge divergence from their core clientele and it is not like DUST 541 was a chart-topping victory, therefore we asked whether it was a difficult decision to begin development of this cellular experience.

"This wasn't a hard discussion at all. EVE has been around for 20 years now and we have always looked to expand the universe on as many programs as possible. We have obviously had DUST 541 and now we are searching to launch into mobile. Since EVE on the internet is such a large game with more than ten years of content, we do not underestimate how big an effort which produces EVE mobile. Alongside this, CCP has a very large quality pub. If we ever want to do something it has to be up to those expectations and satisfies the fan base. "We always wanted to do this but it was never going to be easy. Wei Su approach us back in 2015 with the thought to deliver EVE to cellular and we sat down and talked to them. We must understand who they were and found out that this wasn't any other development team form NetEase. This was the group behind Westward Journey Online 2.

"Westward Journey Online two was a leading tier MMO in China for over 18 decades and it was made by the exact same set of developers. This group has the expertise that they understand how to craft great games that stand the test of time. They even built a mobile version of the exact same game that is also extremely popular. It told us a great deal about the team and gave us a lot of confidence that they could deliver." As soon as it's easy to throw around the accusation of money grab at many cellular conversions, it's telling that Wei Su is a hard-core OG EVE player who heads the same team that initially approached CCP about becoming EVE out into a brand new audience. He noticed that,

"When we began to think about EVE Echoes we wish to expand the influence of the EVE world, bringing it into plenty of new players across the mobile market. As much, we wish to undertake the challenge of bringing this new mixture of player driven markets and hard-core PvP distance battles to buy EVE Echoes Items mobile gamers. "