Celebrating 10 Years With A PCU Record

Sunday saw Eve Online end its first decade of existence by setting a new peak concurrent users record.  The PCU of 65,303, recorded at 1908 GMT/UTC, broke the previous record of 63,170 set in January 2011.  Eve appeared poised to break the record earlier this year when Tranquility experienced a PCU of 60,476 on 3 March but three days later Team Security launched a new detection method targeting specific botting and client-masking software.  That effort contributed to an 8.2% decline in the average weekly concurrent user mark over a two-week period.

Sunday was only the sixth time that the daily PCU has exceeded 60,000 accounts.  Here is a list of the times.

• 5 May 2013 - 65,303
• 23 January 2011 - 63,170
• 30 January 2011 - 62,333
• 6 February 2011 - 60,782
• 3 March 2013 - 60,476
• 6 June 2010 - 60,453