The team at CCP Games have today celebrated the 10th anniversary since the launch of EVE Online back on the 6th May 2003. EVE Online marked its anniversary in style with an enormous in-game celebration that led to a new peak concurrent user record for the game of over 65,000 players connected to the same server.
Unlike in most online games, every one of those players was celebrating in the same connected universe. EVE Online has continuously existed on a single persistent server cluster shared by all its inhabitants for ten years. This unique shared environment means actions have lasting consequences that ripple across the thousands of solar systems of EVE, and players’ reputations are built and destroyed by their own skill, deeds and relationships with other players.
For the last 24 hours, CCP Games haveheld a number of live events in-game, with players also being given special fireworks launchers munitions for their ships with which they could celebrate with. In addition, players received several other valuable gifts—character implants, avatar clothing and a “Sarum Magnate” frigate. In honor of today’s anniversary the appreciation continues as CCP delivers a unique and powerful battlecruiser, the Society of Conscious Thought “Gnosis,” to the hangars of all active subscribers.
Today also marks the launch of the “Uprising” expansion to DUST 514. The Uprising expansion brings with it numerous improvements and enhancements including a substantial graphics upgrade, an updated user interface, and new gameplay modes, weapons and equipment. This leads on to the games official launch on the 14th May 2013.
