"We are very pleased to see players embrace EVE with such enthusiasm and addictiveness. This further confirms our conviction that many gamers enjoy the unique open ended game style EVE offers, compared to the traditional structure gameplay", says Magnus Bergsson, CMO at CCP.
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The subscriber record follows on the heals of multiple concurrent player records in the month of September, with the last record standing at close to 12,000 concurrent players in the same virtual 3D world. EVE is not sharded into to separate worlds, and in its current form estimated to be capable of supporting at least 25,000 simultaneous players.