At the last conference in China's game developers CEO of CCP Games Petursson Hilmar (Hilmar Petursson) reported that the developers plan to "join the Chinese server EVE Online to a worldwide", said goha.ru. Many of the news was surprising, because in China there is a law requiring separate servers for the Chinese. Journalists site massively.com appealed to the representatives of CCP to clarify the situation. Petursson told them that they do not plan such a merger, but to publish the news site had misinterpreted his words:
"Ever since the announcement of the Chinese version of EVE ISK Online at the time of EVE Fanfest 2005, the company constantly SSR noted that in accordance with the design philosophy of the world game sometime in the future, it makes sense to combine the two servers. At the moment, for various reasons it is impossible , so the developers have no plans to merge. We will continue to share with you our vision of the situation in the future. "