Mr Rossignol agrees that there's a message in EVE Online for real-world society.

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Star Citizen places you in a massive and ever-expanding (vis-a-vis micro-updates) universe with some elements of the MMO genre and some elements of single-player all on one super-server a la Eve Online.

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Millions of people are committed to MMORPGs, or massive multiple online role-playing games, like World of Warcraft or EVE Online, in which they interact online with one another to slay dragons or shoot spaceships.

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Dickinson, who had previously weighed 230 pounds, had a life-altering experience while attending the 2009 EVE Online FanFest.

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We think systems like this, similar to the PLEX system created by CCP for EVE Online, address a lot of issues with real-money-trading and strikes a good balance between controlling the in-game economy and rewarding players for mastering the game and spending time playing and the interest of some players to increase their enjoyment of the game with real-money purchases.

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The freedom-loving, Libertarian gaming world of World of Warcraft and Eve Online was aghast.

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In EVE Online, for instance, one player, Nightfreeze, allegedly cheated his in-game friends and rivals out of hundreds of millions of in-game "credits" using nothing but fake accounts, a public library's telephone, some help from friends, and his wits.

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It's not clear if Icelandic game studio CCP is extending its crazy MMO, EVE Online, into the world of virtual reality, but the company is working on some form of EVE-based VR application using the Oculus Rift.

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