MMORPG EVE Online makes Excel spreadsheets a reality in space – and all players love it

The MMORPG EVE Online is jokingly referred to by some as “Excel Spreadsheets in Space”. As early as 2020, a function was introduced that allows you to hide the graphics and really work in tables. Now comes an export function to integrate it into Excel. Players love this announcement.

What did EVE announce? Innovations for the space MMORPG were announced as part of the current EVE Fanfest. An official partnership with Microsoft is included, which makes it possible to export the data from EVE Online and enter it into Excel.

What sounds like a totally boring function at first glance is frenetically celebrated by fans of the MMORPG. Because the subject of data plays an essential role in EVE.

Creative Director Bergur Finnbogason said on stage:

This isn’t an April Fool’s joke, this is real. I dont lie. We actually have each other [Microsoft] and they said, ‘Oh my God, we love Eve’.

The Excel integration should make it easier, especially for small groups of players and beginners, to keep track of their own data.

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Why is data so important? According to Finnbogason, many players are already using external tools to monitor their data. This is used to check things like resource production or trading prices.

Data also played an important role in major wars such as World War Bee 2. After all, ships worth 800,000 euros were destroyed.

Working with Microsoft and the spreadsheet program Excel is therefore not out of the question.

As early as 2020, a function was introduced with which you can switch off the 3D graphics. Instead of showing a battle, the background just turns black and you can only access the UI and texts. But that’s enough, because the graphics only visualize what is communicated via the texts anyway.

How do the fans react to the Excel spreadsheets? Mostly positive. Hardcore gamers in particular appreciate the fact that they can export their data more easily and directly to Excel.

However, some criticize that the Excel spreadsheet was pretty much the only good announcement at EVE Fanfest. There is criticism for, among other things:

• Missing new content. Revisions were primarily announced, but no real innovations.
• EVE is moving more and more towards scripted events, which many hardcore gamers don’t like. on reddit it says something like: “EVE, the harsh PvP sandbox dies, EVE, the living universe is born. But they’re obviously not the same game.”
• The adjustments to the New Player Experience, while important to the game, completely missed the hardcore viewers who attend such a fan fest.
• Lots of long presentations, but hardly any useful information.

Also, the EVE Online community is a little tight at the moment anyway because of the increase in subscription prices:

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