Eve Online is trying to invite more players into the sci-fi MMO in its 18th year.
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Eve Online maker CCP Games takes a pass on NFTs in games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Eve Online maker CCP Games announced today that it will not use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in its games.

The Iceland-based game publisher said its goal is to have the Eve universe live on forever, and it expects to explore new technologies over time, as it has done in the past 19 years since Eve Online originally debuted as a sci-fi massively multiplayer online game.

Hilmar Veigar Petursson, CEO of CCP, said in the post that the company has been following developments with blockchain and cryptocurrencies for a a few years and reviewed feedback from gamers. He said CCP believes blockchain tech has a lot of untapped potential, but that also it needs a lot of work.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.