You keep going on as if Eve Online is CCPs only expense. This is false.
Eve Online is CCPs only revenue from an actual made product.
CCP has many other expenses, lets just name Vanguard as a single one as this is all that is needed to prove how you are wrong.
CCP has negative profit lets say -5m per quarter (which seems a bit higher than what has been quoted here and there but this is for a simple example).
Eve Online has revenue 15m* per quarter (saw someone say it had 67m in 2024 no idea how accurate but again example and we know there definitely is income).
Eve Online has expenses, x per quarter.
Vanguard has expenses y per quarter.
Which gives you:
CCP_overall = Eve_in - Eve_out - Vanguard
-5 = 15 - x - y
You are using this as proof that x is larger than 15, you can’t know that, unless you know y. And remember that there are many other side things than Vanguard.
While Eve is easily the MMO that requires the most server hardware per player (unless some of the others are really poorly implemented). there is no proof or even suggestion anywhere that I have seen (that isn’t just rambling ignoring all other expenses CCP has) , that Eve is not running positive.
EDIT
Changed words used to be more clear, revenue, profit.
-
- EDIT, might subconsciously have picked 12 originally because I have seen the same numbers as mentioned below but I think that is 12m per year this example is per quarter, so changed it to 15 while changing words used anyway, to avoid confusion between this example revenue and the actual profit.