October 2017 was a tough time for CCP Games, the Icelandic creator of EVE Online. The company has always been at the forefront of experimentation, there were too many hands in too many cookie jars. While they’re best known for their play-run MMO, the CCP has also delved into the sports, shooter and simulator genres: sometimes that curiosity has a limit.
Late last year CCP announced that they were shutting down all of their VR projects: a decree that was so explosive that they actually closed down their Atlanta and UK offices. According to a statement at the time, “the EVE Online development team was not impacted at all” but the ordeal clearly impacted the company as a whole.
This week I spoke to CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson about where VR already went and where it was going at EVE Vegas.
Source: Destructoid EVE Online CEO: ‘We expected VR to be two to three times as big as it was’