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Does CCP advertise EVE Online anywhere?
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Lachesiss
Perkone
Caldari State
#41 - 2015-04-17 10:59:32 UTC
A mate told me about this chick online and told me to type "naked eve".

I typed "naked eve online".

Ive been stuck in this game for 10+ years. "facedesk"

On the third day after your birth myself and my sister's will come to you and decide your fate.
Celise Katelo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#42 - 2015-04-17 14:09:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Celise Katelo
EVE Online, can be found on these two major places:

Tweets
Steam

Also word of mouth (YouTube) etc.. P

EVEBoard ...Just over 60million skill points, each skill was chosen for a reason. I closed my eyes & clicked another skill to train... "BINGO...!!!" ... "This time i got something usefull"
Gaellia Bonaventure
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#43 - 2015-04-17 20:44:02 UTC
I was sitting in a movie theater one day and saw an advertisement for Eve. Subscribed the next day.

Bring your possibles.
Freya Sertan
Doomheim
#44 - 2015-04-17 21:03:23 UTC
Years ago a co-worker of mine offered to let me try EvE out by logging into his character. I did so and then I got blown up nearly immediately after undocking. My co-worker had multiple accounts and really wanted to pod himself. He got me to pilot his capsule and he blew himself up.

He then told me to get into a ship in the hangar. I picked the Raven Navy Issue, because, name. Undocked. He told me to target him and press F1 through F6. I did so.

I was hooked immediately.

New Eden isn't nice. It isn't friendly. It isn't very hospitiable. Good thing there are people here to shoot in the face.

Want to make New Eden a nice place? Try this out.
YuuKnow
The Scope
#45 - 2015-04-17 22:05:55 UTC
I used to see the ads on gamespot.com sometimes. That's all I can remember.

yk
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#46 - 2015-04-17 22:22:18 UTC
Gaellia Bonaventure wrote:
I was sitting in a movie theater one day and saw an advertisement for Eve. Subscribed the next day.




REALLY? I'd have liked to see which ad they used for that. I first came onboard with Trinity, I think. The video ad for that was quite amazing.
Gallowmere Rorschach
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2015-04-17 22:41:27 UTC
I discovered Eve via word of mouth as well, from a former WoW guildmate.
Only after I started playing Eve did I start seeing random ads for it here and there.
Google is clearly working for the NSA.
Ciel993
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#48 - 2015-04-18 16:44:10 UTC
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Eve Solecist
Shitt Outta Luck - GANKING4GOOD
#49 - 2015-04-18 16:45:35 UTC
Ciel993 wrote:
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Did you play with them?
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flakeys
Doomheim
#50 - 2015-04-18 18:39:38 UTC  |  Edited by: flakeys
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
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.




For me it was more like : mine to build a battleship , mine more to build a battleship , mine even more to build a battleship , finally after months building the battleship and once it was done i sat in it for 3 whole jumps.The third jump was right into EC-P8R wich also was my first encounter with null-sec and the term '''gatecamp'' ..... At least i enjoyed it a little longer then you would these days as i didin't have a bookmark for the gate so had to do the extra 15km .

On topic though , nope never seen an add for eve anywhere outside of the eve related sites i visit.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
flakeys
Doomheim
#51 - 2015-04-18 18:41:41 UTC
Eve Solecist wrote:
Ciel993 wrote:
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Did you play with them?



Kinda impolite to ask such personal questions don't you think ? Shocked

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Eve Solecist
Shitt Outta Luck - GANKING4GOOD
#52 - 2015-04-18 18:46:15 UTC
flakeys wrote:
Eve Solecist wrote:
Ciel993 wrote:
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Did you play with them?



Kinda impolite to ask such personal questions don't you think ? Shocked
Sheesh, I hope you're not serious ... :)
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Ciel993
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#53 - 2015-04-19 02:48:52 UTC
Eve Solecist wrote:
Ciel993 wrote:
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Did you play with them?


Some yes, some no. At the end of the day, they either quit due to over-complicate system (by their standard), or due to "the game is not fun enough". I tried to tell them that after awhile the game can grant the sense of satisfaction and fun like no other game could offer, yet they just look at me and said "after a day of work/school/etc, why the hell would I want to spend my precious free time effort to grind in some binary numbers, when I can easily get some instantaneously satisfaction elsewhere by playing some Moba or other MMOs?"

The point is, for EVE, the strength of advertisement does not matter as much, because the steep learning curve and stock-like fun curve of EVE would filter most of nowadays' players out regardless.

****, am I getting off-topic?Shocked
flakeys
Doomheim
#54 - 2015-04-19 08:39:54 UTC
Eve Solecist wrote:
flakeys wrote:
Eve Solecist wrote:
Ciel993 wrote:
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Did you play with them?



Kinda impolite to ask such personal questions don't you think ? Shocked
Sheesh, I hope you're not serious ... :)



I allways am and never was ...

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#55 - 2015-04-23 18:25:34 UTC
Ciel993 wrote:
Eve Solecist wrote:
Ciel993 wrote:
Yes it does

but the amount of people stayed is another thing. From my experience, all my friends whom I offer them to try EVE were pretty much all gone within a week, so..
Did you play with them?


Some yes, some no. At the end of the day, they either quit due to over-complicate system (by their standard), or due to "the game is not fun enough". I tried to tell them that after awhile the game can grant the sense of satisfaction and fun like no other game could offer, yet they just look at me and said "after a day of work/school/etc, why the hell would I want to spend my precious free time effort to grind in some binary numbers, when I can easily get some instantaneously satisfaction elsewhere by playing some Moba or other MMOs?"

The point is, for EVE, the strength of advertisement does not matter as much, because the steep learning curve and stock-like fun curve of EVE would filter most of nowadays' players out regardless.

****, am I getting off-topic?Shocked



I think the advertising would have to be wide, in order to catch as much initial interest as possible. The game keep those that it will, and others will lapse off, having tried the trial and not found their interest here, but at least they will have experienced it. But if they never hear of it, then instead of a percentage not liking it and not staying, none of them will stay because they didn't know to come here.

And I think the new 'opportunities' new player experiences will help keep more folks.
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#56 - 2015-04-23 21:33:07 UTC
Also, there's more competition out there, Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, so getting out from among the crowd is important too. One of the things that EVE has as an advertisable advantage is that the expansions are part of the subscription, instead of being an extra charge. EVE doesn't charge for every new feature, while the competition is doing that.

Not being pumped for extra money on top of the subscription is an appealing thing. Some of these game CEOs' minds are still in the Nexus of $1000 jeans, while CCP and EVE's touch on that is in the distant past, circa YC 'long ago'. P
Exe Om
The Grand Assembly
#57 - 2015-04-24 09:17:02 UTC
I joined Eve when I saw a banner ad in 2010 feb

It is not enough that I succeed, all other must fail
Janeway84
Insane's Asylum
#58 - 2015-04-24 09:31:07 UTC
word on the street! Cool
Lloyd Roses
Artificial Memories
#59 - 2015-04-24 10:56:19 UTC
Once my roommate dropped by my room and said *I just started playing eve, wanna join?*

Never heard of it, but he had my attention at spaceships and permanent loss.
Altirius Saldiaro
Doomheim
#60 - 2015-04-24 14:28:41 UTC
Ive seen a slide ad on a movie screen in a theater once. You know those ads before the previews start? Haven't seen an ad since like that, but it was eye catching and had an entire theater of people seeing it.