EVE Online has gone into an open-beta in China (operated independently of the version running in the West) and on its first day experienced 200,000 registrations and hit 30,000 users online simultaneously! The full story can be found on Gamespot. I have to say, China just continues to surprise me and, I suspect, everyone else in the West. World of Warcraft is, to date, really the only Western game to make a splash in China, and I wouldn’t have guessed that EVE would be the next to do it. EVE is pretty hardcore and is basically the opposite of WoW in every way possible except for the fact that it too has a 3d graphical interface.
Go CCP! (and Optic Communications, their Chinese licensor!)
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June 14th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Andrew Crystall
Ahh Matt.
Remember a little enterprise called Shadowbane Asia? Wildly popular in Open Beta, true, but… (And SB is the closest thing to Eve on the market these days)
Caution would seem to be in order until we see how the actual launch does.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Matt
Sure, it might fail once it gets out of beta, but I still think it’s worth getting a bit excited about. I know if I was part of CCP I’d be on the roof partying like a rockstar right now.
June 15th, 2006 at 3:25 am
Kris L
The fact that China has over 1/6 the population of the world, you would hope that you would get numbers like this. If it wasn’t for the fact that CCP doesn’t regulate the selling of ISK for real money by players, I would be a little ticked.