For over 20 years, the studio and publisher behind long-running space MMO EVE Online 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 , 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. In a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, the CEO of Fenris Creations (formerly CCP), explained why the company decided to make the change now after so many years. Apparently, it’s because there’s been a growing “brand collision” between the studio and the Chinese Communist Party. “[It] is a growing collision,” said Veigar. “It’s a fight I’m not going to fight. I’m not going to fight the Chinese Communist Party over who is the CCP. Obviously, the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t think of itself as the CCP. That’s a Western construct.…