The imminent release of the free-to-play PS3-exclusive FPS tie-in Dust 514 is also likely to raise the gameвЂ™s profile and, providing it isnвЂ™t a horrifying addition that devalues the EVE experience (unlikely, from what weвЂ™ve seen), it will probably translate into some extra sub fees courtesy of console players keen to check out what theyвЂ™re missing in the game that started it all.

The experience offered by the game is so unique that, especially when coupled with the infamous loyalty of the gameвЂ™s community, it should do fine. вЂњItвЂ™s hard to predict what will happen to EVE Online CCPвЂ™s space age MMO has never reported huge subscriber figures (though it did break the 400,000 barrier back in March 2012), but it is the only MMO to have grown year-on-year in terms of subs numbers every year since its release a decade ago. If the most expensive video game ever made, reportedly costing around $200 million, failed to justify a paid subscription despite being helmed by one of the most respected developers in the industry, then surely itвЂ™s time to ask: are subscription fees still viable for MMOs? While some people would have suspected this of The Secret World and Tera, the latter of which only announced its free-to-play ambitions last week, SWTORвЂ™s failure was more shocking. Despite three fairly diverse MMOs launching in the past year (Tera being the third), not a single one has managed to reach its first birthday still in the subscription space. Just 12 months ago, things were looking incredibly positive Star Wars: The Old Republic was reporting booming subscriber numbers, The Secret World was raising eyebrows with its original setting and engaging environments and, despite many peopleвЂ™s hopes to the contrary, World of Warcraft continued to boast substantial вЂ“ if slightly diminished вЂ“ subscriber numbers.ДЇast-forward 12 months and a very different landscape lies before us. ItвЂ™s been a pretty interesting year for the MMO genre.

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