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How many players will be online after eve launches in Japan on the 28th?
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Agustice Arterius
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-03-11 21:27:43 UTC
Does this mean I should expect to be seeing more Achura?

But they already account for nearly 70% of the games population Cry
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#22 - 2012-03-11 21:52:06 UTC
The Japanese players aren't going to play during the EU TZ, and thus we aren't likely to see a general increase in daily PCU. I expect we might see a significant increase in the number of people playing in and around the AUS TZ though (Japan being +9 and Australia between +8 and +11).

These players are of particular importance to me because they're likely to play when I do. :)

-Liang

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I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#23 - 2012-03-11 22:14:29 UTC
My greatest fear is that CCP is using the Japanese client with NEXON as a test bed for the rest of us. If that happens where CCP finds that NEXON is a good deal for them and forces upon the rest of us, It will be time for me to say goodbye EVE. As others stated, NEXON doesn't do crap for the hacks, and has been my experience that their customer service is even worse than CCPs petition queue. I smartly ditched anything to do with NEXON.
Patient 2428190
DEGRREE'Fo'FREE Internet Business School
#24 - 2012-03-11 22:24:38 UTC
Hopefully less people overall, so CCP can learn not to do business with organizations like NEXON.
Josef Djugashvilis
#25 - 2012-03-11 22:37:41 UTC
Will give suicide ganking a whole new historical contextSmile

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Tanaka Aiko
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#26 - 2012-03-11 22:44:52 UTC
a few millions will come to test the breasts size option on the avatar creator.
Indahmawar Fazmarai
#27 - 2012-03-11 22:46:30 UTC
Currently Japanese players who want to play EVE must bother themselves with English. Guess what? Video games in Japan are NOT in English, not any more than they are in Urdu in your local store. This means that the world's 2nd largest videogame market is but non-existant to EVE.

So now Nexon is gonna distribute a localized EVE client through their available payment methods. Maybe Japanese and other Asian got a reason to fear Nexon's own games, but EVE is not a Nexon game, it's a CCP game which Nexon just translates and distributes.

It will be good that this works out, as DUST's natural market is Japan too...
gfldex
#28 - 2012-03-11 23:01:50 UTC
Dbars Grinding wrote:
pretty sure if people from japan wanted to play eve they would be doing it already?


The language barrier is pretty high for Japanese players. Payment methods are a problem too.

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Dbars Grinding
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2012-03-11 23:05:01 UTC
After playing a few MMOs with Japanese players i learned a lot hate playing with anyone but their own kind. ESP in FFXI. So many Engrish NO THANKS messages while looking for a party. Sad

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Azure Moonlight
Atomic Core Industries and Science
#30 - 2012-03-11 23:12:51 UTC
Gogela wrote:
Arakazzi wrote:
Rakshasa Taisab wrote:
Chribba wrote:
Oh what, the 9000 is not used any longer Sad

If you watch the original clip, they clearly say 'over 8000'.

This 9000 thing is totally based on mistranslation of the original works.



I'm lost, what are you referring too?


PC games don't do too well in Japan, they prefer consoles even more than we do. Those who do play PC games tend to be retired men with a little too much time on their hands. This is from first hand experience from my visit to a PC game show in Tokyo.

Ha! You just described probably a quarter of EvE's demo. Big smile


Just what I was thinking. Its great they did a localized client for our big server. Not like the chinese version of Eve. But with the communists its always complicated, like in Eve. Big smile

Yay 10 years! :D
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#31 - 2012-03-12 01:08:52 UTC
Dbars Grinding wrote:
After playing a few MMOs with Japanese players i learned a lot hate playing with anyone but their own kind. ESP in FFXI. So many Engrish NO THANKS messages while looking for a party. Sad


To be honest English speaking people can be pretty snotty about language too. Try typing some foreign language in a local channel and I guarantee you will get an "English please!" outburst from someone within a couple lines. If you question this you well be told all about how America invented the internet so it naturally follows that everything must be written in English.

I am fluent in 3 languages and can get by in a 4th. I have no idea what my Russian colleagues are saying but I do notice they try a lot harder to speak English than English-speakers try to speak Russian...
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#32 - 2012-03-12 01:17:15 UTC
- No giant mecha
- No catgirls
- No thinly disguised paedophilia

Somehow I don't think Eve will appeal to the core desires of Japanese gamers.
Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#33 - 2012-03-12 01:26:26 UTC
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
- No giant mecha
- No catgirls
- No thinly disguised paedophilia

Somehow I don't think Eve will appeal to the core desires of Japanese gamers.



Rogue drones have kind of tentacles coming out of their hulls, though.......

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Dodona
The Guardian Knights
#34 - 2012-03-12 01:29:46 UTC
Exactly two!

Me and you.

Think about it.
Valentyn3
Deep Core Mining Inc.
#35 - 2012-03-12 01:33:11 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
Will give suicide ganking a whole new historical contextSmile


Whole fleets of stealth bombers letting of their bombs at 0m from the target Lol

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Sasha Azala
Doomheim
#36 - 2012-03-12 01:36:36 UTC
Ptraci wrote:
Dbars Grinding wrote:
After playing a few MMOs with Japanese players i learned a lot hate playing with anyone but their own kind. ESP in FFXI. So many Engrish NO THANKS messages while looking for a party. Sad


To be honest English speaking people can be pretty snotty about language too. Try typing some foreign language in a local channel and I guarantee you will get an "English please!" outburst from someone within a couple lines. If you question this you well be told all about how America invented the internet so it naturally follows that everything must be written in English.

I am fluent in 3 languages and can get by in a 4th. I have no idea what my Russian colleagues are saying but I do notice they try a lot harder to speak English than English-speakers try to speak Russian...



Most times I've seen Russian being spoken in a local channel, I've not seen 'English please'. But the only language I have seen on a regular basis other than English is Russian in a local channel. However you do get 'English please' in the English help channels but that's not surprising as they're English channels.

Never heard anyone reply with America invented the internet either.

As for English speaking people not trying too hard with other languages, that's not surprising either. If your country's language was a fairly standard international language, where's the incentive to learn other languages.

It's like me I did some German and French and even a small amount of Turkish, but I've forgotten it all as I've never had to use it.
Cindy Marco
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#37 - 2012-03-12 01:37:40 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
Currently Japanese players who want to play EVE must bother themselves with English. Guess what? Video games in Japan are NOT in English, not any more than they are in Urdu in your local store. This means that the world's 2nd largest videogame market is but non-existant to EVE.

So now Nexon is gonna distribute a localized EVE client through their available payment methods. Maybe Japanese and other Asian got a reason to fear Nexon's own games, but EVE is not a Nexon game, it's a CCP game which Nexon just translates and distributes.

It will be good that this works out, as DUST's natural market is Japan too...


Pretty unfair thing to say. I've played mmos with lots of Asian players, including Japanese, and they aren't any worse than any other group. You have Americans who won't try to play with people that don't speak English, just like you will find some Japanese that won't play with those that don't speak Japanese.

One of the best guilds I was in outside of Eve was ~90% Korean. Despite the communication issues it was a great group. They were extremely trust worthy and very group focused.
Thgil Goldcore
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#38 - 2012-03-12 01:38:36 UTC
cant wait to see the you-tube streams of the Japanese commercials!

that is if they exist....
Valentyn3
Deep Core Mining Inc.
#39 - 2012-03-12 01:43:24 UTC
Nerath Naaris wrote:
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
- No giant mecha
- No catgirls
- No thinly disguised paedophilia

Somehow I don't think Eve will appeal to the core desires of Japanese gamers.



Rogue drones have kind of tentacles coming out of their hulls, though.......


Lol

The first time I saw a swarm of the cruiser sized ones shaped like squids coming at me the old "I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going" line popped into my head.

I don't always use hax. But when I do, it's because I'm an NPC.. http://i.imgur.com/PUZou.jpg
gfldex
#40 - 2012-03-12 02:19:09 UTC
Ptraci wrote:
English-speakers try to speak Russian...


Why would you want to understand insults anyways?

If you take all the sand out of the box, only the cat poo will remain.