{"id":319,"date":"2009-05-06T18:53:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/06\/over-300000-subscribers\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T17:55:10","slug":"over-300000-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/06\/over-300000-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300.000 Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/crazykinux\">a tweet from CK<\/a> I found this article on yougamers.com. Apparently Eve Online has now passed the 300.000 subscriber mark ! Very remarkable for a 6 year old game (gratz to CCP !). CCP keeps reinventing Eve and added a new graphical engine by the end of 2007 with the Trinity expansion to keep current players busy and attract new players.<\/p>\n<p>Now of all those 300k subs, how many actual players would that be ? A lot of people have more than one character\/account. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a very impressive feat, as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s battling against games from bigger companies, like Age of Connan and Warhammer. Although one could argue those try to target a different audience. And there must be plenty of players that can actually afford more than one game. Eve seems to have somewhat older players with a higher income than your average teenagers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yougamers.com\/news\/24079_eve_online_beats_warhammer_online_subsciber_numbers\/\">Eve Online Beats Warhammer Online Subscription Numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> That would put EVE Online as the number two western MMO on the market when you count by the number of active monthly subscriptions. EVE Online is surpassed only by a couple of Asian titles (Lineage, Lineage II, Final Fantasy IX and Runescape) and, naturally, by World of Warcraft. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a tweet from CK I found this article on yougamers.com. Apparently Eve Online has now passed the 300.000 subscriber mark ! Very remarkable for a 6 year old game (gratz to CCP !). CCP keeps reinventing Eve and added a new graphical engine by the end of 2007 with the Trinity expansion to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/06\/over-300000-subscribers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over 300.000 Subscribers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ccp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXll4-59","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}