{"id":3143,"date":"2012-02-22T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2012-02-22T03:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:42:31","slug":"eve-online-saw-66m-in-revenue-last-year-mulls-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"EVE Online Saw $66M In Revenue Last Year, Mulls IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The game, a science fictional adventure set in a star cluster dominated by five major civilizations, first launched in 2003, and its subscriber base (currently about 400,000) has grown every year since launch. Revenue has been growing too, at a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent, bringing in total revenue of $300 million over the game\u2019s lifetime. As for profits, CCP would only say that it has \u201cvery healthy margins\u201d \u2014 a claim backed up by the fact that it has grown to more than 450 employees despite only raising $3 million in seed funding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/02\/21\/eve-online-saw-66m-in-revenue-last-year-mulls-ipo\/\">EVE Online Saw $66M In Revenue Last Year, Mulls IPO | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This game made the tech news many years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Recommended system configuration for running EVE Online:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OS: Windows\u00ae XP Service Pack 2 \/ Vista \/ 7<\/li>\n<li>CPU: Intel Pentium\u00ae or AMD dual core @ 2 Ghz or greater which supports <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SSE2\">SSE2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RAM: 2 GB<\/li>\n<li>HD space: 20Gb Free Space<\/li>\n<li>Network: ADSL connection or faster<\/li>\n<li>Video: ATi Radeon 5750 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460<\/li>\n<li>Drivers: DirectX\u00ae 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers<\/li>\n<li>DVD-ROM : 2 speed DVD reader or greater required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The minimum screen resolution for EVE is 1024&#215;768.<br \/>\nAudio hardware must support SSE and be Direct Sound compatible. For optimum performance, use latest drivers available.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Please note that Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 are not supported.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">I don&#8217;t think this will work in a VM due to the graphic requirements.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game, a science fictional adventure set in a star cluster dominated by five major civilizations, first launched in 2003, and its subscriber base (currently about 400,000) has grown every year since launch. Revenue has been growing too, at a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-mmorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}