Eve Online turns 6, subs hit 300,000
In a genre dominated by Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, CCP Games' Eve Online is the poster child of hanging on in the massively multiplayer online game genre. In celebrating the game's six-year anniversary today, CCP Games announced that Eve Online has now surpassed 300,000 global...
In a genre dominated by Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, CCP Games' Eve Online is the poster child of hanging on in the massively multiplayer online game genre. In celebrating the game's six-year anniversary today, CCP Games announced that Eve Online has now surpassed 300,000 global users.
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CCP noted that Eve Online's subscriber base has grown by 22 percent this year alone, having begun the year with 244,000 paying players. The Icelandic developer also said that it has broken its peak concurrent-user record three times this year, with the current high mark sitting at 53,850 users playing in the same realm at the same time.
Late last year, CCP and Atari teamed to offer Eve Online bundled with all of its expansion packs and 60 days of play at retail. As part of an online-games research study released in March, Screen Digest found that Eve Online was the fourth most popular subscription game in terms of spending, ranked behind World of Warcraft, Club Penguin, and RuneScape.
For more information, check out GameSpot's previous coverage of Eve Online.
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