Happy EVE Is Dying Day - 2025 Edition

Today is a momentous day in the history of EVE Online. On this day in 2003 a user declared for the first time that EVE is dying on the official forums. And since the statement is still on the internet, it must be true.

The first EVE is dying post

In fact, the post was so important to the history of EVE that CCP included a copy of the post in the EVE Online 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition.

Indeed, just looking at the user counts shows the decline of EVE since I wrote my first post about EVE is Dying Day back in 2014. According to EVE-Offline.net the peak concurrent user mark for 2014 was 57,213 compared to the peak so far in 2025 of 38,150. Of course the weekly PCU still averages over 5 times 2003's peak logged in user mark of 6,301 set six weeks before that fateful forum post.

Before EVE finally succumbs to entropy and CCP is forced to shut down the servers I thought I'd pull up some interesting facts.

Number of systems: Back in 2003 EVE launched with approximately 5000 systems in 26 regions. That I believe included Jove space. Today New Eden consists of 7805 reachable systems: 5,431 in known space and 2,604 in wormhole space. Known space consists of 60 regions, 61 if Pochven is included.

Number of ships: In 2003, by my research EVE had 29 ships, including rookie ships/corvettes, divided amongst the four empires. Flash forward to 2025. According to the in-game ship tree (which doesn't include specialty ships like Alliance Tournament prizes), each empire now has 65 flyable ships. The developers have added an additional 81 ships belonging to 13 new NPC factions bringing the total up to 341 ships.

The mysterious other race; Back in 2003 the Jove were the mysterious, technologically superior race. But the Jove left their interests to the Society of Conscious Thought back in 2016. In its place the lore team added the Triglavian Collective, who lives in Pochven.

Somehow EVE has lasted 11 years after I first wrote about the topic. May it last 11 more.