EVE Online Reaches 100,000 Subscribers

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CCP Games sends along a Press Release announcing the EVE Online (http://www.eve-online.com/) has reached the 100,000 subsriber mark!

CCP Games, an independent producer of massively-multiplayer online games, today announced that its flagship product EVE Online has reached 100,000 active game subscribers and is maintaining the robust subscription growth trend of the past year. This milestone for CCP Games follows the announcement of EVE Online being voted Best Game in the 2005 MMORPG.COM Reader’s Choice Awards, and the release of its Red Moon Rising edition to subscribers.Click on the Headline for the Full Press Release.

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EVE ONLINE REACHES THE 100,000 SUBSCRIBER MARK

CCP Games Maintains Strong Momentum in the MMOG Industry

Reykjavik, Iceland – February 7, 2006 – CCP Games, an independent producer of massively-multiplayer online games, today announced that its flagship product EVE Online has reached 100,000 active game subscribers and is maintaining the robust subscription growth trend of the past year. This milestone for CCP Games follows the announcement of EVE Online being voted Best Game in the 2005 MMORPG.COM Reader’s Choice Awards, and the release of its Red Moon Rising edition to subscribers.

“The momentum of EVE Online is accelerating globally,” said Magnus Bergsson, CMO of CCP Games. “The growth of the game’s popularity within the MMOG genre has become especially evident in highly competitive markets such as the US and Western Europe, and we fully expect to carry that momentum into China’s game market later this year.”

EVE Online has distinguished itself within the industry by setting the world PCU (Peak Concurrent Users) record in a persistent, single game universe, currently at 23,178 users. The game also utilizes a time-based leveling system, in which the progression of player abilities is independent of the time spent in-game.

“The key to success in this industry is providing content that promotes immersive longevity,” said Nathan Richardsson, Senior Producer of EVE Online. “Time-based skill advancement evens the playing field between new and veteran players, and our model of providing free game expansions to subscribers ensures that the player experience always stays fresh and continues to evolve.”

Later this month, CCP Games will complete the implementation of a total overhaul of EVE Online’s hardware infrastructure, featuring 64-bit architecture provided by IBM. The state-of-the-art hardware will more than double the capacity of the existing game universe and provide significant improvements to in-game performance, particularly during peak server usage.

“Our ongoing partnership with IBM and investment in their technology reflects our commitment to the single game universe standard that has put us here,” said Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games. “To meet the increased demands of a rapidly growing subscriber base, we will continue to scale our infrastructure to allow for future growth and to continue providing a high-quality gaming experience for all of our customers.”

About CCP
CCP Games is a privately held company that specializes in the creation, development, and distribution of massively multiplayer online games (MMOG). Founded in 1997, CCP is recognized internationally as a pioneer in the single-server persistent universe concept of the MMOG genre. CCP Games is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland.

About EVE Online
Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger, and glory. Supported by a vast player-run economy, EVE offers professions to choose ranging from commodities trader to mercenary; industrial entrepreneur to pirate; mining engineer to battle fleet commander; or any combination of these and much more. Your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills, and ambitions. Complementing its lethal arsenal are thousands of modules and components, allowing for countless customizations. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge your own destiny in EVE.

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They are doing so good, that they didn't want to run any advertising a second month in a row - they needed to upgrade their servers before getting any more subscribers!

Thanks to everyone who took advantage of the 14-day trial through the ad right here on Evil Avatar.com. It is great when you guys support our advertisers!

(I'm still playing EVE Online, I just finished training a skill that took 9 days to train!)

[Steele Johnson]

Hmm, I thought the standard bragging rights was around 5 million these days. ;)

[Oblivion]

it is such an unconventional mmo, 100k is certainly something to be proud of.

[jacktion]

It is really exceptional that all 100,000 of those people are all in the same world. There is only one server so you don't have to worry about joining the world where your friends are. You are all in the same world. Wow divides you up into little worlds with much fewer people available to interact with. Plus, since there is only one world, you don't have your secrets ruined by seeing another server accomplish something before yours does, like what happened recently with those gates opening and those monsters coming out and messing s#!t up.

[Iron Maiden]

9 days evil? try a 37 day skill i just started. and thats with implants, 44 without.
flying a dread wil take me around 70 days. thank god for buying game cards with ingame money.

[agentgray]

9 days evil? try a 37 day skill i just started. and thats with implants, 44 without.
flying a dread wil take me around 70 days. thank god for buying game cards with ingame money.
I bet they call those 30+ day skills in the dev offices a "guarantee skill"

...meaning that they just guaranteed a month subscription. Unless, game days are different from real days.

I just tried this game out last night. Good depth.

[Evil Avatar]

Hmm, I thought the standard bragging rights was around 5 million these days. ;)

Considering that Star Wars Galaxies probably has only about 1/4 that number of Subscribers, it is pretty impressive.

[agentgray]

Considering that Star Wars Galaxies probably has only about 1/4 that number of Subscribers, it is pretty impressive.
People still play that drek?

[Kefkataran]

Sure, WoW's way ahead of that, but this is still cool that Eve has got that many people and is still getting more as they go. Very cool.

[Varsity]

They are doing so good, that they didn't want to run any advertising a second month in a row - they needed to upgrade their servers before getting any more subscribers!
Yeah, I'm waiting for the upgrades before I kick off.

[Nite_Moogle]

Congrats to the EVE team, it's hard to make a successful MMO and they've done it.

[TrackZero]

And somewhere, right now, 100,000 players are training their skills up while offline. Yay.

[Goronmon]

Its good to hear this. While WoW is the most popular MMO at this point, I find it too similar to past games for me to stick with it for any extended period of time. With Eve I get to play an entirely different game.

Its also nice to play a game where PvP actually has an impact on how you play the game, and adds depth instead of a grind or annoyance.

[Testcase]

Training Instant Recall to 4 here.... :)

[thecrazyd]

Considering that Star Wars Galaxies probably has only about 1/4 that number of Subscribers, it is pretty impressive.
Do you have a link?

[CrysDark]

The game was just not for me, I am not into open endednes where I make my own story. I like the story to be told to me and to particpate in the story.

But cheers to CCP, they just spent a boatload of cash on new server hardware that is going to put them on the top 50 supercomputers list or some such, and thier using AMD.

[Sensei-X]

Considering that Star Wars Galaxies probably has only about 1/4 that number of Subscribers, it is pretty impressive.

That wouldn't surprise me at all, considering the big middle-finger SOE has given their customers every step of the way in recent years. I still laugh at people who compain about Blizzard, sure they have issues and are FAR from perfect, but you have to get up pretty early in the morning to even approach the level of customer service mediocrity SOE has achieved.

[DeadPixel]

The game is so complicated, they should offer a certificate test. Every time I remember playing the tutorial, I keep thinking of installing FreeBSD on my 5 year old IBM ThinkPad.

[Sazime]

Is there any way to tell how many of them came through EA?

[Adewade]

The fact that they've has such a steady increase is what's so darn remarkable. Maybe I'll need to give it a try sometime. Over reading break, perhaps...