EVE General Discussion

Wanna get it to your CQ flatscreen?
Convert yourself of get the pre-made version :)

i liked the music. any chance we can get some in-game?

That music is just awesome!

My pulse just exploded. Serious props to the music.
Loved the vid too

Like it, though a tad short.

Apparently you need to produce both an action packed real footage trailer and a bombastic storytelling trailer to please the whole crowd around here.

I liked it. Sprinkle in some dubstep and people get excited.

Wun Wub Wub!

Great trailer

I have to say wubwubwub wasn't exactly my thing but I will admit that it fits well with the pace of the trailer.

Your hanger ain't big enough, son. Nor are your personal assets required to fly my ships.



My problem is that you're supposed to use a trailer as a tool to entice new players who don't really know what they are seeing beyond the visual awesome. Making a trailer for the bittervet is pointless because they are already aware of these changes and that the visual awesome they are witnessing is little more then a dramatized illusion. It has less impact on them.

The entire premise is flawed. Most of the people in this thread are bittervets who were hyped before they even saw a trailer, so the only opinion they were ever entitled to was a shallow one.

In my experience, the old player is going to be easily hyped anyway, so there is no reason to create a trailer centered around appeasing them. They already fell in love with the game once and even if they are bitter, it only takes a substantially smaller gesture to win back their hearts. It certainly doesn't take a trailer that was complete tailor-cut for them. I point back to Eve Never Fades, which only vaguely introduced you to certain concepts within the game via text, but managed to show you a lot of content while having the perfect mix of music and art direction to draw you in.

It wasn't tailored for a vet, but it easily holds the greatest place in almost any vets heart and can always instill a little bit of the love they had for the game, no matter how bitter they have become with it. It stirs the emotions of the vet, and grabs the attention of the new player completely.

Back to the current trailer, you have something specifically aimed at only one of the audiences, and while it does indeed appease the bittervet... so what? That is literally all it accomplishes, and they were already appeased by the changes themselves. They didn't need a trailer. In three years time, will we look back at this trailer and make a big deal out of it? No, because these will all be features we take for granted by then. We can still look back at Eve Never Fades, or the Dominion trailer, or the Empyrean Age trailers, or Quantam Rise, or No Other Destiny and yes they can re-hype you because they don't focus on such time-sensative, theatrically irrelevant things.

Those trailers in the future will still serve to inspire new players, and re-hype old ones.

This one will not, and that is its ultimate failure.

If it's just an issue of quality/work/time, I would prefer one ridiculously awesome trailer over two which accomplished basically nothing.

I have to repeat it again and again.
The most important question this nice but too short teaser delivers:

When do we get the CCP BATTLE RECORDER?

Just asking...

And this is where the trailer falls short. Take a step back and look at it from the perspective of someone who has never played EVE; most of the text blurbs are either completely unnecessary or flat out confusing.


"Breathtaking new visuals."
Show, don't tell. We, the current players, can see what's new. Simply showing how awesome the game looks overall is all you need to do for a prospective player. This line is probably the only one that makes any sort of sense to a prospective player.

"Engine trails are back!"
Show, don't tell. Again, old players will instantly be able to see this for themselves. Prospective players aren't really going to care as long as it looks cool.

"3 new captains quarters"
This one makes sense in that we probably wouldn't know what we're looking at otherwise. Prospective players will have no idea what "Captain's Quarters" are.

"New tier 3 Battlecruisers."
Show, don't tell. Once again, current players will instantly know they're looking at new ships and prospective players aren't really going to care as long as it looks cool.

"New tech 2 modules"
This is where prospective players start to squint their eyes and go, "what?"

"Time dilation"
By far the worst offender. To a prospective player, it looks like you've added a sweet new "slow down time" feature.

"Balance balance balance"
Leave this in the patch notes. There is no reason to have it in a trailer. Everyone excited about it already knows about it, and again, prospective players will have no knowledge that it needed balancing in the first place.

"Hundreds of improvements"
Now it's starting to sound a bit desperate, like a late-night infomercial.


Consciously or not, this trailer (and, indeed, this expansion) was very clearly designed with current and former players in mind... and it looks like, for the most part, it's a big hit with them. So nothing wrong with that. However, as an overal marketing tool for the greater prospective audience, this trailer falls short.