CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise

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Crowd Control Productions (CCP Games) was founded in 1997 in Reykjavik, Iceland. It is best known for EVE Online, its anarchic space MMO from which stories of intricately-plotted depravity emerge on a disturbingly but entertainingly regular basis. It has over 150 employees.

The Communist Party of China was founded in 1921 in Shanghai, China, by Chinese intellectual supporters of the then-recent October Revolution. It was victorious in a civil war against the Guomindang—Chinese Nationalist Party—and has governed the People's Republic of China since 1949. It has over 100 million members.

These organisations are difficult to tell apart.

So difficult to tell apart, in fact, that CCP Games recently announced it was jettisoning its name entirely. It's now Fenris Creations, putting an end to all our japes about the upcoming EVE version of the Read Entire Article