EVE Online posts February ban numbers as EVE Frontier opens another free weekend

CCP had a couple of smaller EVE updates this week. On the EVE Online side, the studio shared its February enforcement report, saying more than 4,000 accounts were permanently banned, mainly for real-money trading and unauthorized automation.

At the same time, EVE Frontier is running another limited free-access event. According to the announcement, players can jump into the survival MMO without buying founder access through Monday, April 13.

EVE Online also got a new developer video from game design director CCP Okami focused on the Catalyst expansion. The discussion mostly covers feedback on Catalyst, what worked, and what didn’t, rather than announcing much that’s actually new. CCP apparently touched on what comes next, but the source material doesn’t point to any concrete reveals yet.

That lines up with where EVE is right now. Catalyst is the current expansion, and CCP has already been talking up its broader campaign system and plans to better funnel solo players into group play. If there’s a bigger roadmap update coming, it sounds like players may be waiting until Fanfest for that.

For now, the clearest actionable news is the ban wave and the Frontier free period. If you’ve been curious about Frontier but didn’t want to pay for founder access, this is another short window to try it. And for EVE Online players, the latest enforcement numbers show CCP is still swinging hard at RMT and botting.