EVE General Discussion

I ask because I never see ads for it anywhere that I go on the internet.

Before I subscribed, if I looked up something Eve related (I kept tabs on the game for a while before taking the plunge), I would see banner ads for it everywhere for about 3 days. Like, a fan forum for my favorite football team was covered in them kind of everywhere. Since subscribing a year ago, I haven't seen one.

I found Eve long ago when I was googling for a catalytic converter for a 1983 Camaro, and one of the hits was for the Catalyst (yay google!) At first I was all like "ooooooohhhhh spaceships!".. but then I was all like "..oh.. subscriptions.." then later I was all like "OH! Free trial!" and then I was all like "How do I uh the do stuff? Where is the butan? How do I the .. wow red cross.. sweet Ill shoot OMG OMG OMG IM DYING OMG OMG SCREECH SCHREEEECH HULL ALARM BOOOOM Whats this egg thing?" then I paid the things and got the stuff and found friends and learned to play and did the things with the stuff. True story.

I was introduced to EVE Online not by having ever heard of it before, but by stumbling across someone playing it on a laptop on the library wifi while I assisted a policeman in throwing out a homeless man who was masturbating in the periodicals section.

No foolin'.

Really? You can't say cocaine but you can say masturbating? CCP please.

I recall reading about and seeing advertisements for an upcoming sci-fi mmo Eve Online, on Slashdot. Unfortunately there were only space ships, and at the time you couldn't run it on a PPC G4 based computer.

Back when battlestar galactica came out and i was like, a wee lad, somehow promoted to a lieutenant of red_wing (at the time was the premier guild for the humans, had alot of server crushing skirmishes against the bigger cylon players, man i love that game if only because lik in EVE everyone knew eachother at the upper levels, like wackomaniac and dropping 1500 dollars on the game to near max out everything), digressing, was always wondering where our players disappeared to during what should be peak hours, later found out about EVE from a guy in game (who i oddly despite it being near 7 years later clearly remember the name of, Ibrahm_Gaunt, dunno why i remember that, bleh bad brain, stop ranting), either way, told me to try EVE, and pick amarr, and after he remotely talked me through the excuse we had of a tutorial, poorly i might add, i got into EVE.

Honestly i think the only reason i stayed on with EVE was because of 2 things, 1) the mining corp i joined had alot of drunk aussies in it, which meant tons of ill-fit, ill-organized, lowsec roams resulting in lots of kills and deaths

and 2) a group of about 6 or 7 players i ended up sticking with across like 8 or 9 corporations over 4 years (still kinda sad drama broke up the band, mostly revolving around dota 2)

I found out about EVE online while in college. A bunch of my fellow nerd classmates were always huddled over in the corner playing EVE during free periods. I would only glance over every so often to see what was happening. The only ship I ever saw being flown by any of them was the Velator. They were always eager to offer free trials and newbie support to anybody who showed interest in what they were playing though. I started playing after I got out of school. Kind of regret never trying it out back then, but oh well.

That being said I see it being advertised a lot around gaming sites. You can also find it sometimes on news sites like Forbes and such, but then again those sites have done numerous stories on EVE before so I guess it's really not surprising. Anytime you do a search of EVE Online without adequate tinfoil coverage you're going to see their ads all over any typical site with banner ads though.

I used to see Banner ads for it AFTER i started playing. Never before. I cant recall ever seeing an EVE advertisement since then other then on there own sites and social media accounts.

If I knew about eve when it came out, I would have played it from the start but it took 6 years of the game existing to where I finally heard about it in an Off Topic post on a car forum I used to frequent. Word of mouth is why I'm here.

Ive always thought there marketing was a little sub par, but I run ad block on everything other then my phone now so.

The internet has ads?

This sounds suspiciously like a success story to me.

Edit: Oh, and I've never seen an EVE ad anywhere.