CCP Games, developer and publisher of EVE Online and Dust 514 have today announced that their EVE Online service has surpassed the 500,000 subscriber mark worldwide for the first time in the games history. This mark follows ten years of effort by the game’s staff to bring one of the more complex and challenging online game experiences on the market today.
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson | CEO of CCP
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.
Last month saw CCP Games launch Dust 514 – a free to play MMO first-person shooter on the Playstation Network as an open beta test exclusively for the Playstation 3. Sharing the same universe as EVE Online and linking the two together, even if you do not become a subscriber of EVE (Although I recommend checking out the 14 day trial), you can still have an effect on the world through this free service.
