OGaming: You just hit the largest concurrent number of users that EVE has yet seen last month. Tell us what this says about the health of EVE Online.

Reynir Harðarson: We hit 23,123 concurrent users on January 15th. This is an undisputed world record for a single shard. EVE has never grown as fast as it is growing now. As I write this, EVE has 95K subscribers and is heading straight to the stars.

OGaming: The EVE Fanfest was in October in Iceland, quite a different venue from the other major MMO publishers who have their Fanfairs in the US. What kind of attendance did you have this year?

Reynir Harðarson: This year’s fanfest was quite the success. Around 400 people attended from all over the world. We wanted the EVE fanfest to be a very special event, and hosting it in Iceland is quite an adventure in itself. The Icelandic landscape and nature is like going to another planet, so it is the perfect setting.