Developer CCP has announced that EVE Online will be released on DVD in several territories including the US, UK, Russia and Japan over the next two months.

Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz recently, CCP marketing director Magnus Bergsson stated, “It's not going to be the typical retail box. We will do a counter-top, slim-case DVD. It's going to be a 14-day trial with a little booklet and you're going to be able to buy is for USD 3.99 or USD 2.99, or something like that."
 
"We just got the final codes from the manufacturer to make this, but it takes time. So let's say in two months time it'll be in full distribution," he said.

EVE Online is currently available as a free download, which has been played by more than 200,000 users worldwide. However, the recent merge with US firm White Wolf allows the company to release a physical version of the game to market.
 
"This is being done in cooperation with White Wolf as they have such a great experience with physical distribution," revealed Bergsson.

"You need to have a warehouse, you need to have people taking orders and everything else. We've never really had that, and now we do, and we are getting into physical distribution, not only in the US, but also in Eastern Europe, where people often have to pay from downloads from abroad... Those people are concerned about downloads, even though the client is only 640MB."