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[Interview] EVE Online: Ten Years & Half a Million Subscribers
BillMurphy
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CCP Games has just announced that EVE Online has surpassed the half-million subscriber mark, an astonishing thing for a ten year old game. We recently had the opportunity to talk with CEO Hilmar Pétursson and CMO David Reid about this exciting announcement and what lies ahead for EVE. Check it out before lending your voice to the conversation in the comments.
Today marks a seminal point in the MMO space with the announcement that EVE Online has surpassed the half-million subscriber mark. What makes this so astonishing in today’s generally declining subscription MMO market is the fact that EVE is marking its tenth year since release. Few games, including the-one-which-must-not-be-named, can make any such claim and yet here we are.
Read more of Suzie Ford's EVE Online: Ten Years & Half a Million Subscribers.
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Niche games live longer and continue to grow in population. Congrats CCP!
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If ya need help I'll be heading back to EVE in mid march ^^.
"In addition, convention attendees will have a chance to take part in an epic in-game event that CCP is keeping under its hat for the time being." - I think this might be linked to either Incursions, Sleepers, Jovians, maybe all 3 especially considering the existence of the SoCT cruiser/battlecruiser on the test server currently.
"EVE is likely the best MMORPG that you've never really understood or played" - Kyleran
Heck, if I hadn't cancelled recently due to work demands on my free time they would have had 5 million and 3 subs.
Really great game and if/when I get some more free time to play I'll be returning for another go around.
An amazing mark considering how few sub based MMO's can hold this mark for any length of time, and it's nice to see that CCP has found the perfect storm of features to appeal to solid "niche" of gamers.
I always wonder if they had taken the money spent on Dust514 and sunk it into really developing the walking in station concept, perhaps even to extending it to some sort of ship boarding combat model if the title could have been doing even better.
Oh well, I'm sure CCP isn't unhappy at this point and understandable why they are staying the course, when things are working well, you don't screw with them.
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i myself do not enjoy or like EVE but at the same time i agree its a good game and tehy deserve any credit they get alot of work gose into it.
i just dont enjoy that style of gameplay
F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
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Do humanity a favour and have 50 kids, we could really use people who don't trash what they don't like
it might not ever have the numbers of WoW, but you can bet your arse Wow won't be seeing an INCREASE in subs on its 10th birthday!
WTG to one of the best games ever for the PC in any genre. From, admittedly, one of your biggest fans.
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I saw the epic battle in the news and then i started play.
It's a good game with a good community.
oh gods no i hate kids and, population is to high as it is
F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
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Do it for humanity son, go out there and bunny it up ! XD
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Iam glad it wasnt orcs, elves or knights on mounts. Now its a simpler life for me GW2 n TSW.
congrats to them!-who knows, i may visit space once again.
Isn't Runescape browser only, F2P and a themepark? Good comparison though, next we'll compare WoW (9mil) vs World of tanks (40 mil).
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Considering that a large percent of the player base has two active subscriptions or more (I have three accounts myself), the number of subs may be 500K but the number of players is probably more in the range of 200K.
I took a poll in my alliance forums recently, asking how many people in our alliance only had the one active sub. Turns out that only 11 people had a single account, and oddly they were all Aussies.
Try wormhole PVP corps or Factional Warfare alliances (got a friend who's doing some FW with his alt... he's praying not to get so much pvp XD and it's mostly solo affairs or small group skirmishes so it isn't "who got mo caps!" affairs).