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It was even to the point that nobody had really even met a game developer before. Especially because nobody in the team had ever made a game before. 'It was in many ways impossible to get all these things to work together with a tiny team. But we thought we had a pretty good theory about how we would put it all together. 'Making a single shard MMO is a ludicrous idea, even today, let alone 18 years ago. 'It was surreal when we shipped the game,' says Pétursson. No instances, no splitting the players across multiple servers. And with that small staff they set out to make an MMO in which all players could exist in one big world. In Pétursson's earliest days at the company in 2001, the company had a total of 35 people (today it has hundreds). It hasn't always been swords and champagne at CCP, but there has always been big talk. Pétursson is one of the few who has reached twenty. Spend ten years with the Icelandic studio and a Viking sword is smithed in your honour. 'It's a German knight's sword circa 1600, I think,' he says of the large Zweihander he recently used to open a bottle of champagne. There's a lot of things that go on forever.' 'The pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Bible, like, take your pick. Or it might be the confidence of a man who has just received a sword to celebrate 20 years working at his own company. The company boss might simply be displaying the kind of hyperbole CEOs are known for. And if they do a good job of being relevant and keeping up with the times, there's no reason for them to end.' The concept of money, the US dollar… These are social constructs and games are no different. 'There's a lot of things that go on forever. 'The pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Bible, like, take your pick,' he says. Pétursson tells me this over a call in a quiet, model-strewn office, red-haired and looking a little fed-up with internet meetings after a year of pandemic lockdown. Well, not according to Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of the game's developer, CCP.

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But surely even this infamous generator of sci-fi skulduggery must pay the final toll some time. Alongside long-toothed MMOs like Runescape, it has survived where others have fallen. It predates World of Warcraft by over a year. After 18 years and countless updates, Eve is one of the longest-running MMOs in the industry. The space-faring MMORPG has no central government to shake you down for road money, and space pilots are cloned anew after every ignoble death. Whoever said 'nothing is certain but death and taxes' never played Eve Online.

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