EVE General Discussion

I would first like to start off by saying I am the alt of Nina Latina.

For the past 6 months or so, I have had some ideas on how to attract a more diverse & broader audience to our community.
I think It would be awesome to see EVE become more internationally known.
In my opinion, the main fault of EVE Online is the fact there is parts of the world in which EVE has little, to no relevance.

When I think of all the fanbase gatherings that take place each year, I also think of the places in which fanbase gatherings should be happening.
"EVE São Paulo" "EVE Seoul" "EVE Osaka"
,and so forth.

With the addition of the skill injectors & new updates, I see it as a great time to attract new faces to our community.
Of the main ways this goal can be rationally approached, is to add a few more languages to the client.
It would be cool to see a few more languages added to the client such as Mandarin, Korean & Portuguese.


Beside a bit more languages being supported with the EVE client, I also think it be really cool to see CCP promote EVE threw-out both Asia & Latin America.

Just thought I'd threw in my 2 cents concerning the expansion of our community,
-Cheers

For the Japanese market CCP did run things like EVE in Tokyo once or twice as I recall. Never really saw much after that so will assume not big draws.

One reason could be pita involved. Saw the one date one time and went...nah. Short notice to hook up my cheaper but quality hotel stays, saw the ward in tokyo based out of and thought if pub crawl involved I'd have to step out of that early.

Hear the pub crawls make these fun. Thing is in tokyo you'd best be closer to where you are sleeping by 2400. Trains shut down then. Gives you 2 choices. chill where you are till trains run again (0500). Or see how much a taxi cab can go up up up lol. Younger days party all night had its appeal. Bit older these days....learned to see the value of easier starts to the day.


Case of Japan I could also bring up the old gripe of strict use of nexus for payment may not have been the best idea. its not liked much by foreigners like me in Japan. Nor is it liked much by Japanese gamers I have asked. More direct payment as an option may have served them better here imo.

When I signed up again recently man it was a pita to fire up the account in some way avoiding nexus. I had drive and ambition to work through this since several years invested in some chars. Fresh off the street and had to work my angles....I'd potentially say too much work and move on.

lol, I see your quite the optimist

There are parts of the world where the cost of a sub is equivalent to a decent wage packet, they simply don't have the spare cash to fund an account despite the cost of living being extremely low (in western terms), some of those countries lack what we consider to be essentials such as running water and decent sewerage provision, a luxury item like Eve just isn't important when you don't have the basics.

Brazil, despite having an economy that is pretty large in terms of GDP, suffers from tremendous poverty and endemic corruption, an online game is simply not an option for many Brazilians, the Koreans tend to play a very different kind of game due to their culture as do the Japanese. That said there are players from all of those countries that currently play Eve.

There is already a Mandarin client, unfortunately due to Chinese laws most of the Mandarin speaking players are playing on a separate server, their government doesn't want the population being corrupted by outside influences.

Given the persistent western presence there over the last 6 decades I would hazard a guess that most South Koreans can at least read English, I know that it's taught in their schools to a certain extent. With reference to Portuguese, and to some extent Spanish, most of the countries where they are spoken are ex colonies with poor infrastructure and more important things on their minds. CCP localise the clients to suit the geographical demographics of their playerbase, certainly if the percentage of players from countries where unsupported languages are the norm were to increase then they would consider further localisation work; currently it would be quite a large time investment to do so with an unknown return.

Agreed it would be cool, but CCP is at the end of the day in business to make money and Eve itself doesn't appeal to a large majority of the people who play online games because of its full loot open PvP sandbox nature.

As far as server issues, if CCP was to establish a fanbase out of Asia, most would be active during OZ timezone.
But a few ways to handle server issues, such as have systems in which a ship can only jump threw every 5 mins.
Of course it would be one heck of a challenge to have 100k logged on a single server, but, I think CCP is worthy of that challenge.

Well as for promoting Eve Online to a wider audience, I now see ads on hotmail while checking my Emails. If anything I'd say that's definitely world wide advertising.

The ad that got me interested in Eve was a TV Commercial that aired on Sci-Fi channel during Battlestar Galactica on 5/30/2008.

I first heard about Eve Online a year before that commercial aired while playing another MMO but I quickly dismissed Eve due to the negative descriptions I heard in chat.

When I saw the TV Commercial I actually thought it was part of the Battlestar Galactica series until I saw the Eve Online logo at the end of it. That caused me to remember hearing about Eve in the other MMO which I had stopped playing 6 months prior to viewing the TV Commercial. Since I was looking for a new Sci-Fi MMORPG to play, I did a goggle search and started viewing all the various videos and info guides about Eve Online.

Two weeks later I subbed to the game and have been with Eve ever since.



DMC

"Internationally known...?" EVE has a reputation worldwide that exceeds all other games past present, and I'm sure future. Maybe the OP isn't as well-informed of the gaming world as he/she would have us believe. This is the only game in history where an event within it was a lead story in all US network news (CBS - Dan Rather) and CBC, BBC,... World of Warcraft can only wish.

EVE Online, when mentioned, strikes fear into the hearts of other gamers. Doubt me? Google it.

EVE has the player base it has because EVE is the way EVE is.
To change this is to create another game and call it EVE.

By the way. It's "with regard to" not "in regards to". Thanks

You're not wrong.

There is no point, though, in holding gatherings where there aren't really any players.
The other way round, where there are no players no one will hold a gathering.

Language packs are a good thing, but they're not really marketing.


But what really stands out here is that you're missing a tidbit of information.
The eastern market works differently to ours. RMT would increase dramatically, and botting right with it.


The idea's not wrong, but I think CCP and EVE ONLINE are known pretty widely ...

Steam would be the answer if you are looking to attract more player. The free week end on steam sales brought a **** load of attention to the game. Some system with the usual 10-20 player in it , were sitting at 100-140 during the last week end.

Steam has a large large large gaming community that cover most the world , think about it .

Lot of game exist today due to Steam , think about spaces engineers as an example. Most of the publicity was free and from market special sale.

Programm such as steam is where the marketing need to happen.

Eve does not have a problem attracting new players - the problem is retention. Eve is complex and can be brutal - not everyone wants that. The sandbox nature of the game means you need to learn how to use the tools provided - no one is going to guide you through the theme park. On the other hand, those who figure it out and get established in a social group tend to stay with Eve a long time.

A half million new players tried Eve last year, most gave up within 2 hours. CCP knows they need to do better - hopefully CCP Ghost will have a positive update on his progress for us at Vegas.