Eve Online to add “grief counselling” for players bereft of ships

When we last checked in with Eve Online, players were embroiled in a big space war with invading NPCs. We (I) fantasised about how the balance of power among Eve’s eternally warring player factions would be forever altered, a Game Of Thrones style outside threat forcing alliances while, perhaps, encouraging betrayal. None of that really happened.

With the war amounting to little more than a damp space squib, developers CCP have turned their attention to newer players. As part of a broader attempt to ease new pilots into the game, moderators will start checking in with players when they lose a ship for the first time – and they might even refund them. I do like my “counselling” with a side of bribery.

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