EVE online relaunches in China and hits 450k subscribers

Written by: Tori McGrath (Twitter @ToriMcGrath - Google+) | December 13, 2012 12:27 pm

EVE online relaunches in China and hits 450k subscribers

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EVE Online subscriber numbers have passed expectations

CCP Games hit a milestone today of over 450,000 subscribers after the recent relaunch of EVE Online to the Chinese market. EVE Online originally launched in China back in 2006, with over 1,000,000 registered players and nearly 40,000 online at a given time, but numbers dropped fast.

“On July 17th (2006) we started the commercial launch, and soon after that we saw a frightening drop in player numbers, mainly due to the immature in-game social structure: the social/corporation structure in the Serenity universe was way too weak to welcome a massive number of new players.” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games.

Thankfully, after teaming up with Titan City, one of the top 10 online game publishers in China, EVE Online is clearly having tremendous success over-seas. After only seven days on sale, subscriptions for EVE Online in China have surpassed expectations. In addition CCP also announced that the launch of the game’s 18th free expansion, EVE Online: Retribution, has also helped the game cross the 450,000-subscriber mark.

“I can’t think of a better way to kick off our celebration of our tenth anniversary than bringing a new era of EVE Online to mainland China, and I welcome them into the world of New Eden as we enter into our second decade of growth and prosperity for EVE… Because of the tremendous effort of the team at CCP, we can proudly say that EVE Online has grown every year since its launch in 2003” said Pétursson

Congratulations to CCP on their continued success!

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http://www.facebook.com/inkogni.alex Inkogni Alex

DAAAAAMN!! so many new players for me to recruit, rip off, screw over, fire a SNOWBALL at (december only) and pod at the end… AND sell a new ship to them from my 2nd acc thats how PVP works in EvE and i like it
i o7 to you for this post @Torimcgrath:disqus
- Imran Tayab
  
  Are you on the chinese server?
  - http://www.facebook.com/inkogni.alex Inkogni Alex
    
    im on the one that didn’t launch recently. aren’t both of them connected with each other now that both are online or maybe they will connect soon? that be a cool “expansion” of the known EVE universe for both sides
    - 7BitBrian
      
      Unfortunately no; they are not connected. Due to China’s legal stuff there are certain parts of the game that had to be changed and they are not allowed to be on the same server as us ‘foreigners’. Still cool that CCP has worked around all of that and been able to keep the game live there.
      - http://www.facebook.com/inkogni.alex Inkogni Alex
        
        so does that mean that iv been playing the full game so far or im playing the casual EVE ? my head hurts, better stop thinking
      - 7BitBrian
        
        They are the same game, basically, just on separate servers because god forbid China lets their citizens talk to the rest of the world and possibly corrupt them with our democratic ways.
        
        It’s dumb, but CCP worked around it and made sure the game made it there and is staying there.
- ToriMcgrath
  
  Anytime Inkogni!
http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

Good to hear!