You will have to (and should) look up EVE online yourself, there are litteral books written about it. (check amazon, you can buy 2 History books about EVE.) Ev

You will have to (and should) look up EVE online yourself, there are litteral books written about it. (check amazon, you can buy 2 History books about EVE.) Eve is an online game. That means servers and game clients that connect to them. That also means, if the company shuts down, the game is gone. Enter: Server emulators. If a working game server exists in the public domain, someone could run it and run the game client connecting to this server and still play the game.