EVE Online is one of the most unique MMOs out right now, constantly surprising people with some of the feats its community is able to achieve. Just recently, EVE Online hosted a massive New Year's battle that raged on for well over three months.
Now, CCP Games has announced that said battle, officially dubbed the "Massacre at M2-XFE" within the EVE Online community, has broken two new Guinness World Records. One of the records was the most costly video game battle, costing around $378,012, and the other was the most Titans lost in one battle at 257.
This war this battle was a part of in EVE Online is a modern gaming phenomenon, with thousands of players fighting against each other from September 2020 to the beginning of January 2021. The battle raged on for so long that EVE Online players organized a ceasefire for the Christmas holidays. Of course, the massive war resumed shortly afterwards and continued into the New Year. It's worth noting that only the final battle itself is referred to as the Massacre at M2-XFE, which lasted over 14 hours.
The months-long conflict has come to be known as "World War Bee 2" by both CCP Games and the community, and was fought between the alliances of two of the game's biggest factions. This battle broke the previous record that was also held by EVE Online for the battle dubbed the "Bloodbath of B-R5RB." To commemorate EVE Online players breaking these world records, CCP Games has plans to established an enormous in-game monument dedicated to all of the pilots that participated.
CCP announced the overall loses amounted to 29,111,604,784,863 ISK, which is EVE Online's in-game currency. When translated into USD, it comes out to almost $400,000. All in all, a total of 3,404 ships were destroyed with 257 of those ships being the most expensive ships in all of EVE Online: Titans. These records and statistics serve to strengthen EVE Online's impressive impact, both as a video game and as a large community. The EVE Online community has proven to be a force for good many times in the past, such as when 200,000 players helped with COVID-19 research by playing the game.
The in-game monument coming to EVE Online isn't the only way CCP Games plans to honor the community. CCP has recently allowed players to create their own customizable year-in-review videos to help them remember all of the amazing achievements that happened in 2020. With World War Bee 2 successfully concluded, players are able to get back to normal life in EVE Online. Though, with the MMO's track record, it likely won't be too long before the community is set on breaking some more records.
EVE Online is available on PC.