EVE General Discussion

Because it costs more. A lot more

So.... why are CCP going through NEXON? What's the benefit for them?

Why should the OP stick with CCP when CCP is forcing him to use Nexon or some outside ETC seller?

I wonder why credit card billing isn't supported any more for the japanese customers?

How do they know you are from Japan? I'm not a well traveled fellow, but are Visa/Mastercards hard to come by outside the US? If you can get your hands on one of those just set up your sub via a non-Japan proxy and let it auto-renew.

Can someone clarify how this works on the backend?

if you dont understand the difference between governments and people...

did you people do any research into this change before you implemented this. Obviously not. Heres why...


Nexon form needs kanji based name entry for 1 part....and katakana named part for another.

Protip: you have had a decent US player presence in Japan for years. These US players I would wage are US millitary personnel by a large margin, their families and civilians who support them. Those militarty personel for the most part even with nexons instuctions will not be able to fill out this form. We don'tr have kanji's names and if that passes step one somehow ( I am wating for my wife to come as I missed this since she has a Japanese credit card...thought it be a normal renewal.....you all fooled me :( ) , they don't know their name in katakana in many cases. Unless they learn japanese real quick many will not know how to even properly pronounce it using the japanese syllabary to let IME's write if for them.

Example:

My rl last name is one syllable. In japanese it breakes down to 3 syllables. And wait theres more......some of the letters have no Japanese equivalent so its ghetto'd from what is in the Japanese syllabary. It even addes extra lettes for an added bonus. RL lasnt name of 5 letters 1 syllablle becomes 8 letters 3 syllables. I know this as I have been here a while. I pick up a few things or have the JDM wife to fill in the blanks. A corn fed from Iowa who pulled a Japan tour fresh out of their tech school won't know this for quite sometime. If at all. Depoends if he finds a nice Japanese girl he actually likes vice hitting up easy sleazy bar fly type girls (blunt, but how it goes really).


The tl;dr.....did your business people even bother to talk to the Japanese client dev team people to ask hey...how hard would it be for a guy who doesn't speak japanese to know what his name is in katakana.

You hit the nail on the head.
Japan Commerce and Industry do indeed have such rules in place.
As far as I am aware, such rules are made and supported by M.I.T.I. but if any Japanese player in the know can tell us what's up there, it should be interesting.

http://www.meti.go.jp/english/

10-+ years here. Gaming for 5 of them. And this fustercluck I have never seen...unti CCP signed off on this brain fart.

Japanese isp, no vpn/proxy stuff...I broadcast and connect live and in colour 24/7 JDM style. Until today never a problem. This is with bliizard,. ea, bioware, mythic....hell even wargaming.net games run in the past.

If tney wanted to make this work better....all tney had to do is copy what I tunes does. Works off of profiles. My wife logins with a japanese based I tunes account...it will swtich to the Japan I tunes store. She gets done, I hop on and put my info in and it says whoops , you are US store, switching you over now. My wife gets her tiunes with the sticks and twigs, I get mine with the ABC's. Simple **** here..not hard. Or if too lazy to read the profile....add 2 damn links to the account amangement page.

Do you want to pay here.... all in english, leads to old site this game has had forever.

Do you want to pay here..... all in Japanese. Goes to nexon, eve for the Japanese who can t' read the english link above.. Which many can....they have been using the old pay method for years.