EVE Online - GDC Interview @ The MMO Gamer

CCP researcher, Petur Oskarsson, has been interviewed during the GDC conference, where he talks about different aspects of Eve Online, the new World of Darkness MMO and CCP as a company.

CCP started in 1997. It sprang out of a company called OZ that was a virtual meeting communications company working in Iceland. The idea they had then was to create the best massive multiplayer online game ever. Of course, the two guys who actually founded the company had no money, only ideas and great aspirations, which meant that it took awhile, until funding started running in.

In 2000 the wheels started rolling with trips to E3—God bless its memory—and then in 2001 and 2002 there was an available working prototype, and alpha tests of EVE. Then, in 2002 and 2003 beta testing was commencing, and then EVE went live, May 2003.

We had a publishing contract with Simon & Schuster’s electronic division, but they closed that division, so we had to buy the publishing rights back. In December 2003 we had done that, and we started publishing the game electronically online.

Since then, we have grown from 30,000 subscribers to close to 250,000 subscribers now.

An audio recording of the interview is also available in the article.