On 24 February, forces of the Russian Federation began an invasion of Ukraine. The Nosy Gamer is not a blog about real world war. Unfortunately, real world events intrude into our virtual worlds, and such is the case with last Thursday's invasion.
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| EVE-Offline.net data for the last 30 days |
One of the countries imposing sanctions on Russia is Iceland. Compared to the fishing industry, I expect the impact on CCP is not so great. But Tranquility is experiencing approximately a 10% drop in average concurrent users.
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| EVE-Offline.net data for the first week of the invasion |
The average concurrent data on EVE-Offline.net showed an average of 19,000 concurrent players over the past week. The drop is somewhat in line with the number of Russians and Ukrainians playing EVE. But the number is rather imprecise, as the average number of concurrent users varies by plus or minus 500 users.
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| Jester's Trek Average Concurrency numbers |
The last place to check for numbers is Ripard Teg's old site. He usually updates the average concurrent user numbers at the end of the month. Apparently he was curious about the effects of the invasion, because the chart above was updated yesterday. The 7-day average for the ACU was just under 21,000 before the invasion, dropping to under 19,000 on 2 March.
Looking at the data sources, login activity is down approximately 10% since the invasion. I have to wonder if the same holds true for a lot more games than EVE. The big difference is, with EVE, all players play on a single shard, so we get to see the effects of an event affecting players from other parts of the world. Most other games have geographically segmented servers, which hide any drops. Should make for an interesting round of investor calls in 2-3 months.
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