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EVE Oline goes live in China

PrecusorPrecusor Member UncommonPosts: 3,589
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

with over 200k sign ups and 30k playing on 1 severs

http://www.fz.se/artiklar/article.php?id=1334

Btw.. they broke another world record

Grats CCP

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  • MinscMinsc Member UncommonPosts: 1,353

    Originally posted by Precusor

    with over 200k sign ups and 30k playing on 1 severs
    http://www.fz.se/artiklar/article.php?id=1334
    Btw.. they broke another world record

    Grats CCP
    Heh...somepeople are not going to like that.
  • BobCrazytonBobCrazyton Member UncommonPosts: 2,117
    Uh-oh gold farmer's in EVE now?
  • MarkuMarku Member Posts: 452
    another mmorpg ruined? :(

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  • MinscMinsc Member UncommonPosts: 1,353

    Originally posted by Marku
    another mmorpg ruined? :(
    separate server due to chinese laws and such, won't effect the original server at all....except for maybe speeding up updates with additional revenue. Some people aren't going to like how well it is doing in China though as it ruins their arguments that Asians don't like sci-fi games.
  • BobCrazytonBobCrazyton Member UncommonPosts: 2,117

    Originally posted by Minsc

    Originally posted by Marku
    another mmorpg ruined? :(
    separate server due to chinese laws and such, won't effect the original server at all....except for maybe speeding up updates with additional revenue. Some people aren't going to like how well it is doing in China though as it ruins their arguments that Asians don't like sci-fi games.

    I could imagine the conversations

    "You wan bai gold?"

    "No u?"

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    oh wow, they made an open beta, so everybody can join for free and they bought one expensive server, if they really try hard, they might even impress me some day.

  • MinscMinsc Member UncommonPosts: 1,353

    Originally posted by Gameloading
    oh wow, they made an open beta, so everybody can join for free and they bought one expensive server, if they really try hard, they might even impress me some day.

    LOL there he is...was wondering how long it would take. So they get more players signing up for the EVE china beta in 1 day than the whole WoW beta had and you still brush it off? So when the game goes live and they break the 50,000 player concurrency record within weeks of launch how about then.

    Just because you couldn't hack it in the game doesn't make it bad.


  • roflgurlroflgurl Member Posts: 7

    LOL i can imagine the flooded economy that they will have on the servers.

    ROFL

  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

    err the records they achieve only include Eve Online.  I have seen some poorly managed games that let over 30k people on at the same time on the same server cluster during open beta's.

    200k is pretty lousy for a game thats theme is like Eve's in China.  A ship game in which you build and battle with your own ship should easily be in the millions.  Also chinese gold farmers don't farm chinese servers for gold.  They farm US, European, Korean, and Japanese servers for gold so they can take advantage of the currency exchange, like an 8 to 1 ratio.  If the ratio wasn't so high you wouldn't see chinese gold farming companies being made because there isn't any profit in it.

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182

    Originally posted by Minsc

    Originally posted by Gameloading
    oh wow, they made an open beta, so everybody can join for free and they bought one expensive server, if they really try hard, they might even impress me some day.

    LOL there he is...was wondering how long it would take. So they get more players signing up for the EVE china beta in 1 day than the whole WoW beta had and you still brush it off? So when the game goes live and they break the 50,000 player concurrency record within weeks of launch how about then.

    Just because you couldn't hack it in the game doesn't make it bad.


    best I could find:
    http://www.wcreplays.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-27149.html

    "This past Monday we launched the World of Warcraft open beta test, and
    by the following day, we had already reached a total of more than
    500,000 signups! To everyone who signed up, we'd like to say thanks
    again for helping us make this the most extensive beta test ever for a
    Blizzard game. We take this as a strong indication that the gaming
    community is as excited about World of Warcraft's upcoming release as
    we are.


    As for the status of the open beta test, more than 40 servers are
    currently active, and testing is running smoothly, with additional
    players completing their client installation and joining by the hour.
    Each server hosts thousands of concurrent users, most of whom are
    seeing Azeroth through the eyes of the Horde or the Alliance for the
    first time. We continue to review every suggestion submitted, so please
    keep them coming in!"

    ahum, you were saying?
  • YodaGreenYodaGreen Member UncommonPosts: 77

    Originally posted by BobCrazyton

    Originally posted by Minsc

    Originally posted by Marku
    another mmorpg ruined? :(
    separate server due to chinese laws and such, won't effect the original server at all....except for maybe speeding up updates with additional revenue. Some people aren't going to like how well it is doing in China though as it ruins their arguments that Asians don't like sci-fi games.

    I could imagine the conversations

    "You wan bai gold?"

    "No u?"

    Thx for making me laugh, made my day
  • ValiumSummerValiumSummer Member Posts: 1,008

    Originally posted by roflgurl

    LOL i can imagine the flooded economy that they will have on the servers.


    You don't even understand how EvE works.   There are two servers.   One western and now one eastern (china) server.  

    The addition of a second server in china wont affect anything in the existing server.

  • hamburgermanhamburgerman Member Posts: 13

    nice to see that EVE is doing well.

  • JorevJorev Member Posts: 1,500

    Eve has broken a new record with their China server.

    Most farmers on a single server.

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  • HersaintHersaint Member UncommonPosts: 366

    If a farmer yells "Wanna bai gold?" on the China server ...

    How many farmers does it take on the China server to ruin the economy?

    2 farmers walk into a bar on the CHina server with two bags of gold each...

    Ok fill in the punchlines fellas. LoL

    ::::02::

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  • RollinDutchRollinDutch Member Posts: 550

    Originally posted by Minsc

    Originally posted by Marku
    another mmorpg ruined? :(
    separate server due to chinese laws and such, won't effect the original server at all....except for maybe speeding up updates with additional revenue. Some people aren't going to like how well it is doing in China though as it ruins their arguments that Asians don't like sci-fi games.

    There's also the fact that CCP has been concentrating so much effort on opening the Chinese server that development on their existing server (you know, the one which everyone currently pays for) has all but stalled out.
  • MinscMinsc Member UncommonPosts: 1,353

    Originally posted by Gameloading

    Originally posted by Minsc

    Originally posted by Gameloading
    oh wow, they made an open beta, so everybody can join for free and they bought one expensive server, if they really try hard, they might even impress me some day.

    LOL there he is...was wondering how long it would take. So they get more players signing up for the EVE china beta in 1 day than the whole WoW beta had and you still brush it off? So when the game goes live and they break the 50,000 player concurrency record within weeks of launch how about then.

    Just because you couldn't hack it in the game doesn't make it bad.


    best I could find:
    http://www.wcreplays.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-27149.html

    "This past Monday we launched the World of Warcraft open beta test, and
    by the following day, we had already reached a total of more than
    500,000 signups! To everyone who signed up, we'd like to say thanks
    again for helping us make this the most extensive beta test ever for a
    Blizzard game. We take this as a strong indication that the gaming
    community is as excited about World of Warcraft's upcoming release as
    we are.


    As for the status of the open beta test, more than 40 servers are
    currently active, and testing is running smoothly, with additional
    players completing their client installation and joining by the hour.
    Each server hosts thousands of concurrent users, most of whom are
    seeing Azeroth through the eyes of the Horde or the Alliance for the
    first time. We continue to review every suggestion submitted, so please
    keep them coming in!"

    ahum, you were saying?

    Fair enough, my numbers were off. I can admit it.
  • IcoGamesIcoGames Member Posts: 2,360

    Good on CCP! I enjoyed Eve while I had time to play.

    Ico
    Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones. It bones for thee.

  • MW2KMW2K Member UncommonPosts: 1,036

    Confucius Yantis say: Has wise man got yuan for you!

    Jokes aside, hopefully this will encourage Asian devs to make a decent sci-fi gamew and put aside the FF-looking fantasy treadmills they churn out.

  • PantasticPantastic Member Posts: 1,204

    Wow, that's a huge number. I wonder how much of it is the regular players messing around on the new boxes, but still impressive. If EVE actually opens in China with more players than in the whole-rest-of-the-world servers, I'd be really suprised because while China is big, I wouldn't expect its EVE market to be that big.

  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077


    Now if they'd just set up a North American server so we don't have to hop the damn atlantic to play they might actually get more US and Canada  players.  I'm impressed that they hit 30k concurrent players.  That's pretty impressive considering 1 year ago it was like 9k.  Sounds like CCP may have popped the 200k subscriber mark.




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  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077

    Originally posted by Pantastic

    Wow, that's a huge number. I wonder how much of it is the regular players messing around on the new boxes, but still impressive. If EVE actually opens in China with more players than in the whole-rest-of-the-world servers, I'd be really suprised because while China is big, I wouldn't expect its EVE market to be that big.
    Why wouldn't it be?  Chinese people like sci fi just as much as the rest of the world :)  LOL Star Wars was HUGE in Hong Kong after all.  So was Star Trek actually.  I wonder if they're allowed to let people from countries other than China onto the servers....  It'd be a shame if China is forcing them to restrict access to only chinese players....

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  • RollinDutchRollinDutch Member Posts: 550

    Originally posted by Elnator

    Originally posted by Pantastic

    Wow, that's a huge number. I wonder how much of it is the regular players messing around on the new boxes, but still impressive. If EVE actually opens in China with more players than in the whole-rest-of-the-world servers, I'd be really suprised because while China is big, I wouldn't expect its EVE market to be that big.
    Why wouldn't it be?  Chinese people like sci fi just as much as the rest of the world :)  LOL Star Wars was HUGE in Hong Kong after all.  So was Star Trek actually.  I wonder if they're allowed to let people from countries other than China onto the servers....  It'd be a shame if China is forcing them to restrict access to only chinese players....

    The new servers are located physically in China, and will be restricted in access to only players from China. The existing server will remain as the only server for the rest of the world.

    Originally posted by Elnator

    Now if they'd just set up a North American server so we don't have to
    hop the damn atlantic to play they might actually get more US and
    Canada  players.  I'm impressed that they hit 30k concurrent players. 
    That's pretty impressive considering 1 year ago it was like 9k.  Sounds
    like CCP may have popped the 200k subscriber mark.





    More like two and a half years ago it was 9k max concurrent. I remember EVE breaking 10k in early 2004 (and then nearly doubling that in a few months as Earth and Beyond was announced to be closing).

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182

    Originally posted by Elnator
    Now if they'd just set up a North American server so we don't have to hop the damn atlantic to play they might actually get more US and Canada  players.  I'm impressed that they hit 30k concurrent players.  That's pretty impressive considering 1 year ago it was like 9k.  Sounds like CCP may have popped the 200k subscriber mark.

    Its an open beta. the chinese players are not subscribers, just people who signed up for a trial thats called a beta. I doubt they had such an increase in subscribers since their last announcement
  • MinscMinsc Member UncommonPosts: 1,353

    Originally posted by Gameloading

    Originally posted by Elnator
    Now if they'd just set up a North American server so we don't have to hop the damn atlantic to play they might actually get more US and Canada  players.  I'm impressed that they hit 30k concurrent players.  That's pretty impressive considering 1 year ago it was like 9k.  Sounds like CCP may have popped the 200k subscriber mark.

    Its an open beta. the chinese players are not subscribers, just people who signed up for a trial thats called a beta. I doubt they had such an increase in subscribers since their last announcement
    This is true, the original server's subscriber number is around 121-125k with about 30k trial accounts, the active subs keep climbing steadily though, it could easily hit 200k subs by the end of the year, the China server will likely start with more than this and increase over time.

    Apparently they have already run a tv ad there for EVE.

    FYI they are up to 360,000 registered for the beta test now, methinks they will get 500,000 registered and once they get the kinks worked out will hit 50,000 concurrency in a stresstest. If shanghai turns into a crater we'll know what happened.
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