I missed this interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, that EVE creator Reynir Harðarson did about a week ago, and it's got some amazing ways of looking at EVE!

Frankly I don’t give a crap whether you liked Eve, or found it boring, or unplayable or anything else: what you need to understand are the principles that are at its foundations, because they’re principles that can be applied to stop MMOs becoming stale and inflexible in the future.

The number of people I’ve encountered working on MMOs who don’t really know anything about Eve Online is shocking, and I regard that lack of knowledge of the work of people like Harðarson as one of the key reasons why MMOs are progressing so slowly, and regurgitating the same tired, tiresome ideas over and over again.

Whether you've played and loved or hated it, or just never tried it out, it's an amazing read with what CCP is doing to change the future of MMOs.