EVE General Discussion

Language options and server
We want to use this opportunity to confirm that all Japan-based users will continue to have the option of playing in English, Japanese or any other languages officially supported by CCP. Although it is a common matter of speech to refer to a “Japanese client” to be launched in Japan, we want to emphasize that Japanese players will continue to play on Tranquility with the rest of EVE’s international community, and that Japanese will be added as a language option to the existing EVE client, which already supports English, Russian and German. All Japan-based players will retain these language options after the launch of Japanese.

Nexon will handle all EVE-related payments for Japanese users starting from April 1, 2012. ... We hereby confirm that players will keep both existing EVE accounts and characters, and that there will be no change regarding the existing EVE ID system or how it is used to access the game client and EVE-related login sites (such as EVE Gate and Account Management). Please note, however, that all players will need to establish an additional Nexon ID which will be used exclusively for billing and billing support. In short, the only change to existing account and login procedure is that after April 1, 2012 an additional login step will be added for players to access Nexon’s convenient and secure payment system. The change above will apply to all players residing in Japan regardless of nationality.

I appreciate the link, although I didn't do me any good.

I did take your advice and google the phrases you suggested.

I found dozens of cases of people having their gaming account hacked and items removed.

I found no cases of people having credit card information compromised.

Most of the cases appear to likely be due to the player going to the multitude of sites that sell in game currency for money and getting a key logger... but not all. It looks as if there are some hacking programs out there that can get into someone's game account and listed email address with just a character name. However, these tools do not allow access to anyone's actual payment information.

So I'm confused.

If you use your Nexon account solely to purchase PLEX (or a subscription, which I assume will be available through them) when you need it, what exactly would anyone get if they hacked your gaming account. They still can't get into your EVE character to sell your in game items, and apparently never could get into your personal payment information.

I suppose it's possible they could get your email account information which could be a problem (assuming you don't have a gmail account or something similar just for this sort of thing) but I'm really not even sure if the same sort of interface/information will be used for setting things up through Nexon to play EVE.

I'm not unsympathetic, but I really think you may have to wait for more details about what will be entailed when going through Nexon to access EVE before you can realistically decide if there is a security risk involved or not. Too many unknowns about the procedure at this point.

That is indeed serious.

It does make me wonder why none of the reports I read mention that (they were pretty specifically about losing in game items/currnecy)... or you yourself for that matter. You only mentioned the hassle of your gmail account being compromised. I would have thought you would have mentioned that first and foremost.

Perhaps I missed it.

Did you also miss that the Nexon Points in these accounts (about thousands of dollars in some cases) were stolen by hackers?
Amount of money stolen is varied but the reports are everywhere in Google if you try a few of those words, and none of them got them back as far as I know.

Oh and please read the link I provided, if you can read Japanese. I don't know how NEXON America manages their accounts tho.

Judging by the forum posts in the official Nexon website, some of their support tickets are going literally months before getting a reply (And this is for inactive/disabled accounts, people trying to play their game again) So if thats the kind of support they have to look forward to, i think thats a big issue too.

If i was forced to use some 3rd party to pay for my subscription i'd ether cancel or use GTC's from a company that isnt being forced on me

To be fair, I did just find 1 post, buried on the 2nd page of a thread on the Nexon forums that mentions NX (I'm assuming Nexon Points) lost along with stuff on his character.



I'm not sure why you would store excess Nexon points above what you need to pay for your EVE sub, but the theft of them does at least seem possible. This young man was upset because Nexon was taking it's time reimbursing him while they investigated. There is no indication in the thread as to whether he got reimbursement, or if it was determined that a key logger or something similar was to blame.

Oh and this is funny but, when you charge NEXON point, they have this scheme where you always get some NP left overs that are somewhere around 600-800 yen which is not enough to use on any games, so you have to always keep it around, and this goes for all the NEXON players. (even if you don't keep large amount in your Nexon wallet)

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.