Will Sataball be the end goal for EVA?asked by Phoenix Rising
TL;DRNo; Sataball began as an early testbed for EVA mechanics and has been off the plate for almost a decade, with no current plans, though they won't say it will never happen.
No. Actually, I feel like I've answered this at least once a year, every year since 2016. The entire idea of Sataball, outside of the lore, as far as developing it, was as an Arena Commander mode, as a testbed to begin the development and testing of EVA mechanics way back in 2015, because we didn't have the PU. Development of the PU came much faster than we expected. We launched the PU in November, December 2015, I can't remember specifically. But once we had a persistent universe in which to develop and test EVA with everybody, the use of Sataball became non-existent. So it's a fun thing for our lore and whatnot, but that's been off the plate for going on almost a decade at this point. But it keeps popping up. There's a lot of people who grab onto that idea and they're like, yeah, I want to play this zero-G football game, whatever. And it's a cool idea. It's just not the game we're making. We've already got two other pretty big games we're making. It's not to say it won't ever happen. I've been here long enough to know that I'm not going to sit here and say it's never going to happen. But there are no current plans for it.