EVE General Discussion

Wonder no more.

I'm Ripard Teg, and I write one of the most active blogs out there for EVE Online, Jester's Trek. My blog focuses on the "big picture" elements of the game we all love: the big questions of sov, play styles, CCP's business, and game design. There's more than 600 posts so far, and you'll be surprised how few of them are filler. I've also written something like 20 player guides for EVE, covering everything from Incursions to L4 missions to PvP communications to gate decloaking to gate camping to utility high slots.

I'd like to invite everyone to come check out my work, and a post I wrote today, called Snapcount, provides you with an opportunity to jump in with a topic that's easy to understand: how many people play EVE? How has it changed in the last year?

Here's a teaser that I haven't yet published on my blog. It's a display of a 30-day rolling average of the number of players logged into EVE... since 2006.
EVE 30-day average logged-in players since 2006

How did Incarna affect the number of people who play EVE? It dropped it. By 10.7 percent. How is Crucible affecting the same number? It's up since the release of Crucible by more than 13 percent.

Come give Snapcount a read for the details, and who knows, maybe become a regular reader. Hope to see you there.

Players as in accounts or players as in different characters, perhaps on the same account? Or how many different people maybe with multiple accounts? This is one of those stats I fear we may never know...

Indeed, I cannot even see that it would be all that easy for CCP to figure out how many different people play Eve including account and character distribution.

Your graphs are useless sir. Any idiot player still active over that period could finger paint your graph while on Valium.

EVE: Rewound (to 2009).

Did you know Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot?

Showoff!

So Incarna is the only expansion to have a massive drop in number of players? That's.......damning

The biggest increase seems to be Quantum Rise which I believe introduced PLEX and was the great nano-rebalance patch, not many new features or different ways to play. Dominion was another big winner and that was new feature light as well, dominion had rebalanced sov, minmatar and pirate ships which are just improvements of what is already in the game.

So it looks like improving existing game mechanics = massive rewards and releasing new features without any purpose aka Incarna = big loser.

Got that, CCP?

I visited this site expecting to find pictures of Marylin Monroe's extra toe. I left disappointed.

Seriously thanks for the link, nice read cool graphs.

Tippia's graphs do a good job of demonstrating the disaster that was Incarna, followed by the much improved Crucible. If CCP can continue to iterate and improve existing content then we should see continued gains over the rest of the year, maybe getting us to the 60k concurrent numbers.

That chart says more than all the spin that the fanbois can and will put on it. It directly contradicts a lot of things some of the super trolls have tried to tell me lately.

I hope your shoes taste as good as they look on TV commercials you tools.

Unfortunately, Tippia didn't wrap his graphs in a tinfoil hat conspiracy story and mysterious secret sources, so his post was largely overlooked.

Lesson in self-promotion learned, I guess.