CCP Games CEO Discusses Decision To Make Eve Online Platform Open Source | MMORPG.com

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CCP Games CEO Discusses Decision To Make Eve Online Platform Open Source | MMORPG.com

After announcing the platform behind Eve Online will go open source earlier this year, the CEO of CCP Games, the company behind the game and its engine, has spoken up about why.

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mcrippins

Wow.. I freakin love this. I wish games that were shut down would release their code. At least give the community a shot to bring it back.

Mawnee

I'm looking forward to Eve offline and private servers. I could poke around in this game indefinitely on my own server. Modified ruleset servers open a ton of fun options.

caalem

>Pétursson explains that Eve has technically run on the same fundamentals all along as “the first database game ever made. It's based on SQL server from Microsoft.

He's incorrect.
Asheron's Call used MSSQL, it was originally using MySQL on a BSD server until Microsoft got involved.
I do not know if any MMOs prior to Asheron's Call used a DBMS.