CCP Games has announced that for the first time in its ten-year history, internet-spaceship simulator/grand sci-fi alternate universe EVE Online has passes 500,000 paying subscribers.
EVE is the only MMO to have grown year-on-year since its launch, but that's not the only reason this game is unique. EVE is famous for its political dramas, huge-scale battles between warring factions and real-world crossover consequences. EVE Onilne: Retribution, the game's 18th free expansion, was released in December. PS3 free-to-play shooter DUST 514, part of the EVE universe, is still in open beta.
CCP's CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson had this to say: "Ten years after release, it is incredibly inspiring that, through a lot of hard work from our EVE Online team, we are crossing the half-million subscriber mark. For me, this is a true testament that EVE can live on forever, as long as we do right by her. We have not come to this point alone; millions of players have helped push us to this milestone. I now know in my mind what I previously only believed in my heart: that EVE will outlive us all."
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