As promised , CCP Games on Tuesday release a Macintosh version of EVE Online , its Massively Multiplayer Online Game ( MMOG ) set in out place . A costless 14 - day trialis available for download with no acknowledgment card required ; EVE Online costs $ 14.95 per month to meet thereafter ( the first month costs $ 19.95 ) .
The release of EVE Online is the climax of a bustle of late activity beginning with CCP Games ’ 4th one-year Fanfest in Reykjavik , Iceland . The gathering assembled thousands of EVE Online participant from around the Earth for several days of conferences , gameplay and other related to events specific to EVE . It was at that Fanfest that Hilmar Pétersson of CCP Games and Vikas Gupta of TransGaming Technologies announced that the Mac client of EVE Online would be released on Tuesday , Nov. 6 .
EVE Online is superficially a space trading , exploration and fight game in which players navigate ballistic capsule and travel from solar arrangement to solar system of rules . But the unmarried , pertinacious online world that all players deal and the actor - run economy add some wrench to EVE to make it a very deep and middling intimidating experience for new players , even those with experience in other MMOGs . To allay the changeover , Macworld has formulate a primer to assist Modern players get started , complete with links to new player resourcefulness guides online that may essay to be helpful .
EVE Online has already been playable on Intel Macs equip with Boot Camp and a copy of Windows , but CCP Games has allied itself with TransGaming to make for EVE to the Macintosh natively . EVE was convert to the Intel Mac using Cider , the same TransGaming - made applied science that ’s led to almost a dozen other Macintosh game liberation in 2007 , including six titles from Electronic Arts ( EA ) , GameTap Lite , the forthcoming GameTap Deluxe , Heroes of Might and Magic V , X3 : Reunion and Myst Online : Uru Live . CCP and TransGaming have also collaborated to enfold EVE Online using TransGaming ’s Cedega technology to bring the plot to Linux users .
Minimum Mac system requirements for EVE Online call for an Intel - based Mac running at 1.8GHz or fast , Mac OS X v10.4.9 , ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT or near 3D graphics with at least 128 MB VRAM , 1 GB RAM , 6 GB backbreaking disc outer space and 56 green or effective cyberspace connexion .
