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Does CCP advertise EVE Online anywhere?
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lost packet
Alpha Flight
#61 - 2015-04-24 19:16:47 UTC
Joia Crenca wrote:
I ask because I never see ads for it anywhere that I go on the internet.


Switch to using Google as a search engine, then you'll see them on every website you ever visit.

Alpha Flight are recruiting pilots | Almost Broken are recruiting corporations
Lord Kalus
Not PurpIe Shoot It
ISK Positive
#62 - 2015-04-24 19:39:52 UTC
I discovered eve because of a banner ad in hotmail in ... 2007 I think?

L0CAL SP1KE and All Shall Perish are recruiting!
Carrie-Anne Moss
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#63 - 2015-04-25 22:22:55 UTC
lost packet wrote:
Joia Crenca wrote:
I ask because I never see ads for it anywhere that I go on the internet.


Switch to using Google as a search engine, then you'll see them on every website you ever visit.

Thats for us eve players... we are talking bout advertising to people that dont know about eve so those banner things would never put an eve banner for them

Omg people, i feel so smart when i read these forums. LOl
Khan Wrenth
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#64 - 2015-04-26 12:28:05 UTC
I found EvE through word of mouth. I was playing Freelancer online, and lamented on some forum about features I'd love from a space sim. Like, being able to actually fly the battleships in Freelancer, more ships, more variety of ships, this, that, the other, you know how it goes. Someone replied with, "Sounds like you'd like EvE. But be wary of it, it's got graphics that'll probably make your computer cry out for mercy".

I liked what I saw, but I put it aside for two years because my computer was dang near bare-bones at that point and I knew I couldn't run it. A few months after I upgraded to a decently powerful machine, there was some cracked.com article on "The 10 biggest d*ck moves ever done in online gaming". EvE had like, 4 spots on that list. That reminded me, "Oh yeah, there was that game I was going to play".

Since then, almost every article that Cracked does, that involves people being bad or being dumb and online games, EvE gets mentioned somewhere.

I've tried to get friends into it, but I've had no success. The only guy I got to actually play it said he really enjoyed it, but he was broke and he couldn't handle the subscription fees every month.

And before Eve Solecist asks, yes, I played with him.

Let's discuss overhauling the way we get intel in EvE.
SpaceyJoe Mentat
Kollectorz
#65 - 2015-04-26 14:15:19 UTC
Found eve through a BBC article talking about the economy.
Slavealt
Sheep Can Hear A Zipper From A Mile Away
#66 - 2015-04-27 00:09:28 UTC
They need to play this one in movie theaters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTUazuGdTw

Even if EVE gameplay is actually nothing like that, it is flashy enough to get a buttload of new subs.

Hell, I'd buy a ticket to some random movie just to see that on the big screen.
Glathull
Warlock Assassins
#67 - 2015-04-27 21:17:37 UTC
I saw this somewhere: http://imgur.com/gallery/jj16ThL

Don't remember where. I just thought, "Hmmm. That looks like fun."

I leave ads on because I'm pretty fascinated by how much I get tracked. It always cracks me up when I buy something from Amazon, and then see ads for that item on Facebook for the next 2 weeks. Oops. Sorry guys. Already purchased.

I see EvE banner ads a lot.

I honestly feel like I just read fifty shades of dumb. --CCP Falcon
Joey Bags
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#68 - 2015-04-28 05:08:20 UTC
I was watching scifi channel and I watched a television advertisement. It was the only ad on tv that I've ever seen for Eve, but it got me.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose. Unless you podded them...and collected their corpse.
BrundleMeth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#69 - 2015-04-28 10:47:38 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
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'.

I remember that !!!

I wasn't homeless, I was just between addresses...
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#70 - 2015-05-12 17:39:25 UTC
Hmmm... mid-day here on Denver time, and only 30k active in game. It was 50k at this time a few years back. CCP, lets bring in new folks to experience the new player experience. Gotta advertise, get those eyes and minds to take a trial plunge. Lol
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#71 - 2015-05-12 18:41:59 UTC
Yeah, they do. I used to see the ads all the time from searching stuff about freelancer.

These days everyone has cookies trackers and ads on the DL so you dont see em as much.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#72 - 2015-05-19 20:28:18 UTC
Hmm, I see advertising for Elite: Dangerous (and I'm guessing we must have EVE gankers there in pvp, they're the ones telling complainers that it's called Elite: Dangerous, not Elite: Safety).

I didn't have anything on the machine to indicate the presence of that game otherwise, so it must be widespread advertising. But really, EVE Online needs more exposure too.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#73 - 2015-05-19 21:06:40 UTC
I have seen some of their advertisements in the internet and have not seen spaceships on them! Not even one Incursus! Outrageous!

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#74 - 2015-05-21 00:53:26 UTC
I finally saw an EVE Online advertisement... as I was looking up the EVE forums... XD Nope, I'm glad you're seeing them somewhere where new eyes will catch it.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#75 - 2015-05-21 01:01:30 UTC
Quote:
Does CCP advertise EVE Online anywhere?
Here's an idea for a unique advertising campaign.

I will tattoo the EVE logo on my ****. It would get a lot of exposure in my phallus puppetry videos. Contact my agent for the fee as I don't feel right taking money for my performance art.

Mr Epeen Cool
z'kroh
Doomheim
#76 - 2015-05-21 08:11:16 UTC
Joia Crenca wrote:
I ask because I never see ads for it anywhere that I go on the internet.

No need since EVE is the boredomhole.

Boredomhole is like blackhole, but it pulls all bored people together to experience ultimatum boredom.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#77 - 2015-05-21 11:55:20 UTC
I've seen Eve advertised on mmorpg.com and it crops up in my steam store browser from time to time too.
BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#78 - 2015-05-21 20:55:03 UTC
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.


This probably describes eve far too well...

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Velarra
#79 - 2015-05-21 21:11:42 UTC
Vimsy Vortis wrote:
. Also I remember seeing the Incursion cinema trailer (which was for some reason worse than the regular incursion trailer).


Are you saying there were for a time Eve Incursion trailers, played in theaters, IRL at about that time?

/o\