EVE Online is celebrating its sixth anniversary today, and CCP has a special announcement to coincide with the birthday. Over the past couple days, the game has surpassed the milestone of 300,000 active subscribers.

To put that in perspective, EVE had 244,000 in the beginning of the year. CCP attributes the 22 percent growth in subscribers in the past five months to the release of the Apocrypha expansion and the retail box.

Also, EVE has broken its peak concurrent user record three times in the past five months. The current record is 53,850 players on at the same time. As CCP Manifest put it, "We couldn't think of a better birthday present than having more people playing EVE Online than ever before. It is another sweet reminder of EVE's boundless potential."