EVE Online: AGC Interview @ MMORPG.com

MMORPG has an <a href="http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/gameId/14/setView/features/loadFeature/898" target="_blank">EVE Online interview from the Austin Game Conference</a>:<blockquote><em>At AGC, I had a chance to talk to Nathan Richardsson, the Senior Producer on EVE Online about the game, its recent growth and its future. As readers may or may not be aware EVE, which has only one single game-space, recently surpassed the 30,000 Peak Concurrent User statistic that they have been striving for. Thata "!s 30,000 people, all playing at the same time, on the same server, making EVE the first mass-market MMORPG to reach that milestone.<br><br>Richardsson said that he was amazed every time that their PCU number climbs. He said that he is happy to work on a game that he loves and that other people like as well. He went on to tell me that the one-world (ie: one main server) concept was built out of an interest in seeing the social networks that would be created, and the way that a political structure would turn out. a S
The more people that play, the more complex [the game] becomes,a ? he said a S
the scale is becoming enormousa ?. He added that a S
Seeing what evolves never ceases to amaze me.a ?</em></blockquote>