In many regards, I made the original post drunk just reflecting on the sad reality of the state of the game and how I feel CCP upper management has driven us to this point. I miss the days where eve was vibrant, 65k online and the game was alive as was the community. For whatever reasons, that’s all gone now and the numbers speak for themselves. I’m thankful for the experience of playing this game for close to 10 years as it once was, being engaged in the community spirit and the fact this game was unique - I genuinely have regret that upper management of CCP have brought us to this point now - but they ultimately have and should be accountable.
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That time never existed.
EVE never had 65k, that was a marketing gimmick achieved by getting everyone to l9g all their alts on at once regardless of how they used them.
So… you like many are wishing for an imaginary time.
The exact number (65,303 max) was a one-off pushed event, but 2013 had >60K several times in the year and peaks above 50K most of the year.
As far as the overall sentiment Boom Boom expressed about EVE being much more vibrant and alive, together with the community, she’s not wrong.
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The simple fact is on average, it never got above a little over 50k.
The amount of active accounts online at same time, not an average amount of accounts.
I’ve been playing since 2005. Yes the summer is the lowest activity period but there are positively less people playing the game since the blackout started.
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Hi 2007,
Could be said about the wardec nerfs last winter. Apparently that meant nothing…
Way too little, and way way (5/6 years) too late - that boat sailed long ago - they should have re-vamped high sec pve content whilst they still had competent devs and some $£ - but CCP just don’t have the ability to do so now.
High sec mission runners = subscriptions - that all got nerfed, so subs nosedived, meaning CCP to an extent, now depends on multiple account owners - so nerfing those peoples playstyles is probably not a great idea - but guess what CCP has gone and done 
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Citation needed.
No citation is needed, people saw it happen. same as the miners that left.
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Link?
I just hope the CCP Upper Management are now proud to report to Pearl Abyss and the Shareholders about why numbers online are as they are now - Hope selling out the core fundamentals of what made Eve Online unique has been worth it - in many regards given how the game is fast dropping in players now, you could almost suggest Pearl Abyss have been scammed - if it continues (and I don’t think it’ll stop now), I can’t see any profitable return on that investment. Thank you CCP Upper Management for bringing the community to this point. Absolute kudos.
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I had a long weekend, I debated between EVE and binge watching Breaking Bad for the third time.
Only two seasons left to go!
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No citation needed here either, it happened. 10 years ago (heck, even 14 years ago) highsec was thriving, its now largely empty.
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dont think pear abbys bought ccp because of game, but technology. If you played black desert you probably know how bad this game was in aspect of network protocol and other stuff. Now it works insane well… i think ccp made some code for them. We -as eve players- are not important at all if it comes to profit. Even black desert europe is not that important and is treated like third rate. This is just ■■■■ not money for pear abbys. I dont know what future brings but it is dark for sure.
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no citation, no link, so it happened “in your head”.
I saw just over 12,000 logged in last night 3-4 hours before game reset. A year ago it was never below mid 18,000 and highs were in the 35-37,000 range. Now the highs mid day in USA are as low as 19,000 to 24,000. But everything’s OK nothing to see move along move along.
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Player count over the span of the whole game.
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Exactly!