{"id":632558,"date":"2026-05-09T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632558\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:50:09","slug":"eve-online-studio-renamed-to-avoid-chinese-communist-party-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632558\/","title":{"rendered":"EVE Online Studio Renamed To Avoid Chinese Communist Party Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

For over 20 years, the studio and publisher behind long-running space MMO EVE Online<\/a> has been called Crowd Control Protections, which is almost always shortened to CCP in articles and posts online. In recent years, this has caused some confusion and mix-ups with the over 100-year-old Chinese Communist Party<\/a>, so the company is changing its name as it breaks off from its previous owner, Crimson Desert publisher Pearl Abyss, and enters a new era.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz,<\/a> Hilmar Veigar P\u00e9tursson, the CEO of Fenris Creations (formerly CCP), explained why the company decided to make the change now after so many years. Apparently, it\u2019s because there\u2019s been a growing \u201cbrand collision\u201d between the studio and the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It] is a growing collision,\u201d said Veigar. \u201cIt\u2019s a fight I\u2019m not going to fight. I\u2019m not going to fight the Chinese Communist Party over who is the CCP. Obviously, the Chinese Communist Party doesn\u2019t think of itself as the CCP. That\u2019s a Western construct. They refer to it by a Chinese name. They\u2019re not called the Chinese Communist Party [in our home country of] Iceland either; we call it the Komm\u00fanistaflokkur K\u00edna in Icelandic.\u201d<\/p>\n

But according to the CEO, in most of the English-speaking world, mix-ups and nods to the similarity have become more and more common.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen reporters write stories about us where we are literally referred to as \u2018the other CCP.\u2019 We have CCP employees going to the US and being questioned over the [company\u2019s] name. These are not big things, but I can sense where this is going,\u201d said the EVE Online boss. And with the news from earlier this week that Fenris is going indie again<\/a> and buying itself back from Crimson Desert publisher Pearl Abyss, it seemed like a perfect time to also make this name change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were already making all these changes,\u201d said Veigar. \u201cIt\u2019s a good time to do it; if we don\u2019t do it now, will we ever?\u201d<\/p>\n

Why Fenris Creations? <\/p>\n

As for the new name, Fenris Creations, it is a reference to Norse mythology but also a nod to a board game the company published back in 1998. It also ties into its most popular game, EVE Online. The massive space MMORPG has produced some wild stories over its many, many years, often involving death and destruction, something the new name also references, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cFenris Creations is a reference to destruction and creation and how they are intertwined, how death is a serious matter in Eve Online<\/a>,\u201d said the CEO.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen ships explode, there\u2019s something beautiful in destroying them. There\u2019s some deep, hardcore meaning behind the name for us. We dug deep into what the best way to express what we do was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For over 20 years, the studio and publisher behind long-running space MMO EVE Online has been called Crowd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[182983,273375,273376,74],"class_list":["post-632558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ccp","tag-eve-online","tag-fenris","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}