Comment EVE broke the 12k barrier actually (Score 1) 238
Read http://eve-online.com/ properly and you will see it's actually broken through 12k users:
"Sunday, November 28th at 20:40:00, EVE Online broke the 12,000 simultaneous user barrier when 12.258 players were on at the same time. This record comes at the heels of EVE's latest expansion - EXODUS."
