EVE Online heads to Valve's Steam platform

Icelandic dynamo EVE Online is going where no MMO has going before: Valve's Steam platform. CCP and Valve have banded together to offer the client (complete with Trinity II goodness) to Steam's 13 million users. To sweeten the deal, the pair are offering an exclusive 21-day trial period for the game, available only if you download via Steam. Folks who sign up for the game via the service will also receive a five dollar discount on their first month of pay service.

The press release for the announcement makes much of the fact that EVE is the first on Steam, and in hindsight it does seem kind of strange that no other MMOG devs have signed up for something like this. With this announcement, I imagine we'll see other developers beginning to work their online magic via Valve's service. The most obvious draw would be World of Warcraft. After all, Valve and Blizzard are siblings, and have been since before the Activision merger!