EVE General Discussion

NOTE : This post has nothing to do with the majority of EVE players.

Thanks CCP for the rather disappointing Email (scroll down for English text). It has finally been revealed that we "Japan based players (anyone living in Japan)" are forced to pay through Nexon using Nexon points. Any other paying methods will be denied from next April. So, how much is it going to be ? The Email says nothing about the actual price and it worries me a lot.

Last time I bought the 6 month subscription, it was approximately Y956 per month (6 month subscription $71.7 * Y80 / 6 months, "Y" for yen). Since most Korean MMO companies tend to charge Japanese customers around Y3,000 per month (Linage, AION, TERA, etc. which is extremely expensive compared to most Japanese subscription style MMOs), I guess we must be prepared for paying something like $40 per month from next April ? And in that case, for the existing "Japan based players" who are happy with EVE just the way it currently is, that extra Y2,000 or so is going to be nothing but an enforced donation to Nexon since we have never wanted any Nexon ID nor Nexon points, Do they have anything else to offer? No.

And if its really going to be Y3,000 per month, you might as well add (only for "Japan based players" of course :p) something like this or this to NeX store, since I'm quite sure that the current Incarna avatars aren't f***y enough to attract the new coming Y3,000 paying Nexon friendly so called "moe pig" Japanese players who are accustomed to those kind of price tags.

Well, I guess it's Nexon and not CCP that decides the actual price but who cares. I hope this enforcement brings something good enough with it to make up for the massive disappointment and the feeling of unreliability the Japanese EVE player community is currently experiencing.

Excuse me for any grammatical errors.

Can't you just use PLEX to add gametime?

They say we can. But that's not the issue.

stupid forums

Its :fearless: to bend over to Nexon apparently.

Hopefully this gets fixed.

I dunno, maybe it's a language barrier or something, but I keep telling all y'all: you don't need to pay subs thru Nexon if you don't want to.

I'm a little surprised they don't let you guys pay with your credit cards, but, other than that, there's an easy way around it.

You should be able to buy GTCs from any authorised retailer online (Shattered Crystal is one I know of), these can then be converted to PLEX ingame, which can in turn be used for your gametime (as you know), or sold on the market for ISK.

GTCs arent sold through CCP directly, so it would hopefully circumvent paying Nexon.

Aye, I have bought gametime through shattered crystal before, they do do a check on where you live though, through the phone no less. It was a little weird explaining to an American what my nearest hospital, highway and train station was (Belgium).

So I guess they do have some restrictions on what to sell to whom... The "clarification" regarding the cooperation with that Japanese company that is a sticky on those forums should be published.

I would thing that the whole move though a subsidiary in Japan is to encourage new subs that will be supported with a native japanese speaking team of GM and community reps, not scare away already subbed players.

seriously, thats ****** up. my sympathies to you. use a proxy IP for doing billing stuff?

Thank you for noting our trouble and your sympathy.
I think CCP will check your billing information and if your current residence is Japan, regardless of IP, they will direct you to the NEXON site? (perhaps)
And faking a billing address (by proxy or in your address information) is a bad action.