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EVE Online is a socially complex, science-fiction-themed universe
simulation and massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) first
released in 2003. Notorious for its colossal battles and ruthless
player culture, it has hundreds of thousands of players today. In
this fascinating book, scholars, players, and EVE’s developer
(CCP Games) examine the intricate world of EVEOnline--providing
authentic accounts of lived experience within a game with more than
a decade of history and millions of “real” dollars behind it.
Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business features contributions
from outstanding EVE Online players, such as The Mittani, an
infamous member of the game’s community, as well as academics
from around the globe. They cover a wide range of subjects: the
game’s technicalities and its difficulty; its projection of
humanity’s future in space; the configuration of its unique,
single-server game world; the global nature of warfare in its
“nullsec” territory (and how EVE players have formed a global
concept of time); stereotypes of Russian players; espionage play;
in-game memorials to Vile Rat (aka U.S. State Department official
Sean Smith, murdered in the 2012 Benghazi attack); its gendered
playing experience; and CCP Games’ relationship with players; and
its history and legacy. Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business is
a must for EVE Online players interested in a broad perspective on
their all-consuming game. It is also accessible to scholars, game
designers seeking to understand and replicate the successful
aspects unique to EVE Online, and even those who have
never played this notoriously complex game. Contributors: William
Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation; Chribba; Jedrzej
Czarnota; Kjartan Pierre Emilsson; Dan Erdman; Rebecca Fraimow;
Martin R. Gibbs, U of Melbourne; Catherine Goodfellow; Kathryn
Gronsbell; Keith Harrison; Kristin MacDonough; Mantou (Zhang
Yuzhou); Oskar Milik; The Mittani (Alexander Gianturco); Joji Mori;
Richard Page; Christopher Paul, Seattle U; Erica Titkemeyer, U of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Nick Webber, Birmingham City U.
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