The deep, player-driven experience of EVE Online is now wide open to anyone willing to take up the challenge of exploring with, warring against, and scheming amidst hundreds of thousands of other players in the massive space sandbox that is the EVE universe. Headlining the EVE Online: Ascension expansion is the Clone States feature, which has done away with free trial accounts and allows any past, present, or future players to play for free, forever. Whichever player corporations, alliances, and coalitions best recruit and nurture the promising influx of new players could easily upend the landscape of the entire universe.