Apparently the company that ran the servers went bust, taking Serenity with it.

So no more EVE for the chinese?

So no more EVE for the chinese?

I like it when people basically selectively quote blog posts without even quoting anything.

Just.......ah never mind. You aren't worth the insult.

Current amount of subscriptions means nothing compared to the active numbers, especially when players are just waiting for the subscription time to run out on the accounts.

It's not irrelevant. It just happens to have the opposite effect of what many people assume.

Historically, the PCUs and average player online numbers in EVE have gone up during summers, presumably because people have vacations and have more time to play (and because they don't have to get up in the morning to go to work, so they can stay up longer in the evening).

So you're saying the majority of EVE's playerbase is in high school, with the average skewed by a decent number of octogenarian players?

You can take up the specifics with CCP. It's their statistic.

Summer is irrelevant? Are you sure you haven't taken a heavy blow to the head at some point? How many national holidays take place around that period of time every year worldwide? Should also be noted that according to an IPP report from 2011, the most popular time period for working men and women to take a summer holiday was in the last week of May through to the first week of July.

Being a 33 year old man with no kids, I can tell you that I and many people I know of my age, prefer to take our holidays slightly before or slightly after, peak season. This way we can avoid the real "Summer Season" when everyone takes their screaming children away for a week of sunburn and tantrums. But of course, I guess I and my friends are the only thirty somethings in the entire western world that do this......Summer is far from irrelevant, except to those who wish to believe the sky is falling no matter how much contradictory evidence there is.

If you hover your mouse over the graph... IT READS FROM RIGHT TO LEFT!!!

So, this thread is 100000% irrrrrelevant...

If you hover your mouse over the graph... IT READS FROM RIGHT TO LEFT!!!

So, this thread is 100000% irrrrrelevant...

Using actual information, instead of theories based on your vacation habits, show me the summer slump with numbers: http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

Then we can talk some more.

Last year the average age of an EVE player was 30. So definitely not a school kid. Try again.

EDIT: Statistics from 2010's CSM voting.

" The average age of voters was 30.8 years, slightly higher than the average age of EVE 's player-base."

Source: Massively Interview on CSM 2010 Voting.

Last year the average age of an EVE player was 30. So definitely not a school kid. Try again.


There ya go.

Octogenarian specifically refers to those over 80. http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/octogenarian I'm just sayin'.

Not schoolkid, that's for sure. But now at 47, I fully understand why at 30, older folks called me 'young man' all the time. TBH, 30's are still 'squirelly'.

Why would I converse any further with someone who hasn't bothered reading anything else I said in this thread?

Um, I was talking to Mina Hiragi, not you or Cutout. I was actually backing up what Cutout had said ......

http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

As u can see theyre is a trend DOWNWARD. At the start of the graph there is 30,000 players and at the end of the graph ere is 12,000.
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http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

As u can see theyre is a trend DOWNWARD. At the start of the graph there is 30,000 players and at the end of the graph ere is 12,000.

CCP must fix mining and end hyulkageddon because eve has lost over half its subscribers!

speaking of EVE graphs... whats up with Serenity?

http://eve-offline.net/?server=serenity

has it gone offline?

Considering that the very first graph shows spikes over 40K - in the last 24 hours - it doesn't really matter if you failed to correctly determine the time axis: You Fail, regardless.

I read every word, sir. The proposition is simple: using the numbers from Chribba's site, show us that the numbers go down between late May and early September each year. It should be simple for you to do if you are correct. Since Jester has been kind enough to do the number crunching for us, it baffles me that you continue this pretense. Show me the numbers that prove Jester wrong . I will happily admit that I was wrong if you show me the numbers.

I'm not even sure why you're arguing about it, other than you'd like to believe that EVE is growing and flowering. It's not. EVE isn't dead, and it's not likely to die tomorrow. But in a game built around player-driven content, stagnation or decline in the population is a potentially serious problem.

no...they put this horribly " Expansion " on it, and the server bursted in flames

2011-04-17 37,008
2011-05-30 33,511

2012-04-07 35,815
2012-05-20 29,976

And as you can see, year on year numbers continue to grow.