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EVE Online Celebrates 6 Years |
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Written by Briersting
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 19:48 |
Happy Birthday EVE Online!
EVE Online celebrates its 6th year of existence today-May 6th. That's six strong years of continuous growth thanks to tireless integration of user feedback into game design and pushing to release around two major free expansions per year. Their single-shard world, where everyone plays on the same shared server, has seen tremendous benefit from having each player able to interact and affect each other player in a persistent manner. From massive fleet battles to individual bonds of trust, every pilot in EVE has the potential to rock the ship of hundreds of thousands of others by their actions.
At one population milestone the community saw agreements form between alliances. At another they were able to fully turn over the economy to the players. As the population of New Eden has grown, so have the instances of emergent behaviors of its pilots. A 6 year persistant history. A living history where truly brilliant strategies have unfolded. Truly terrible betrayals unveiled. Everyone is excited to see what will happen next.
This year has been very successful for EVE Online, Their latest free expansion EVE Online: Apocrypha and a return to retail played a major part in that. CCP started out the year with around 244,000 subscribers and in five short months they've had a 22% growth in subscribers. In the past couple days they surpassed the impressive milestone of 300,000 active subscribers. For those that are wonder, that doesn't include trial accounts. CCP has broken their peak concurrent user record 3 times this year alone, standing now at an impressive 53,850 in the same universe. That is exponential growth for a MMORPG that was released that long ago. It is another sweet reminder of EVE's boundless potential.
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