{"id":12680,"date":"2023-01-08T01:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T01:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/eve-online-has-two-expansions-coming-in-2023-following-a-2022-boom\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T01:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T01:11:22","slug":"eve-online-has-two-expansions-coming-in-2023-following-a-2022-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/eve-online-has-two-expansions-coming-in-2023-following-a-2022-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"EVE Online has two expansions coming in 2023 following a 2022 boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CCP Games, the developers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EVE Online<\/a>, have released a new years&#8217; message with some details about their plans for 2023. The recent Uprising expansion beefed up warfare between EVE&#8217;s factions by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-online-blows-up-an-entire-star-and-everyone-around-it-to-kick-off-a-new-inter-faction-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blowing up a whole star<\/a>, kicking off a big set of changes to warfare between the factions in notoriously-dangerous low security space.<\/p>\n<p>That war change seems to have worked: &#8220;Particularly notable has been the sharp 75% increase in PvP kills in lowsec as well as the 11% PvP kill increase in highsec despite the additional restrictions on ganking,&#8221; said CCP. &#8220;This has pushed industry and mining significantly, with navy ship production rising 14,709% and capital manufacturing seeing a 34% bump!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2023 will be the 20th anniversary of EVE Online, and it&#8217;s not slowing down. CCP says an EVE expansion is coming in both Q2, that is April to June, and Q4, that is October to December, of 2023. Additionally, this year&#8217;s big Fanfest event will be a celebration of 20 years of EVE, taking place in Reykjavik from 21 to 23rd September.<\/p>\n<p>EVE Online is a wildly successful space MMO, running since 2003, and pioneered a (still) nearly-unique game model based on a player-powered economy. The past few years have seen big changes to the game, most notably a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/news\/view\/improving-photon-ui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge overhaul <\/a>of UI and graphics elements alongside a new player experience much more suited to gaming in the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>That player focus means that EVE&#8217;s one of the more famous MMOs around just because every story is one of tragedy and betrayal between people, not between players and a game. Whether that&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-impossible-year-long-plan-to-destroy-eve-onlines-deadliest-fortress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">year-long plan to destroy a deadly fortress<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/murder-incorporated-ten-months-of-deception-for-one-kill-in-eve-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elaborate assassination plot<\/a>, or the incredible story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-onlines-most-notorious-scam-took-16-months-of-commitment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 16-month plan to steal a famous pirate ship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year will also see the release of a closed beta of the vaunted, almost-a-joke-but-not-a-joke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-x-microsoft-excel-is-probably-the-least-surprising-collaboration-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Excel plugin for EVE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/news\/view\/producers-letter-from-uprising-to-new-conquests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full Producers&#8217; Letter on the EVE Online website.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]EVE Online has two expansions coming in 2023 following a 2022 boom<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>CCP Games, the developers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EVE Online<\/a>, have released a new years&#8217; message with some details about their plans for 2023. The recent Uprising expansion beefed up warfare between EVE&#8217;s factions by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-online-blows-up-an-entire-star-and-everyone-around-it-to-kick-off-a-new-inter-faction-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blowing up a whole star<\/a>, kicking off a big set of changes to warfare between the factions in notoriously-dangerous low security space.<\/p>\n<p>That war change seems to have worked: &#8220;Particularly notable has been the sharp 75% increase in PvP kills in lowsec as well as the 11% PvP kill increase in highsec despite the additional restrictions on ganking,&#8221; said CCP. &#8220;This has pushed industry and mining significantly, with navy ship production rising 14,709% and capital manufacturing seeing a 34% bump!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2023 will be the 20th anniversary of EVE Online, and it&#8217;s not slowing down. CCP says an EVE expansion is coming in both Q2, that is April to June, and Q4, that is October to December, of 2023. Additionally, this year&#8217;s big Fanfest event will be a celebration of 20 years of EVE, taking place in Reykjavik from 21 to 23rd September.<\/p>\n<p>EVE Online is a wildly successful space MMO, running since 2003, and pioneered a (still) nearly-unique game model based on a player-powered economy. The past few years have seen big changes to the game, most notably a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/news\/view\/improving-photon-ui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge overhaul <\/a>of UI and graphics elements alongside a new player experience much more suited to gaming in the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>That player focus means that EVE&#8217;s one of the more famous MMOs around just because every story is one of tragedy and betrayal between people, not between players and a game. Whether that&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-impossible-year-long-plan-to-destroy-eve-onlines-deadliest-fortress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">year-long plan to destroy a deadly fortress<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/murder-incorporated-ten-months-of-deception-for-one-kill-in-eve-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elaborate assassination plot<\/a>, or the incredible story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-onlines-most-notorious-scam-took-16-months-of-commitment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 16-month plan to steal a famous pirate ship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year will also see the release of a closed beta of the vaunted, almost-a-joke-but-not-a-joke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/eve-x-microsoft-excel-is-probably-the-least-surprising-collaboration-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Excel plugin for EVE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/news\/view\/producers-letter-from-uprising-to-new-conquests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full Producers&#8217; Letter on the EVE Online website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}