EVE General Discussion

Ofc, Forum rule is very important but, Most Important is a lot of "Japanese players Opinions" atm.
Most JP player cant speak/write/read English as well.
Maybe CCP understanding it well.

Now a lot of / many Japanese Player want to say anything this problems,
Pls check RSS on this Site,

http://blog.livedoor.jp/eveonline/

One of famous site, there is.
They wrote a lot of oipinions in their blog by Japanese.
But there is no english blog ..... :( why??
To regret, but, cuz, most Japanese cant use English as well, but its truth and our situations.
Evidence, If most Japanese can use English, No need Japanese Clients!! thus, this thread is no need

Under this situations, I said this thread be able to post Opinions by Japanese, Not good Opinions?! is it?

E? Nani sore?!


^^ No offense, but I'd say your command of the English language. Clearly you used google translate or something, as the result is quite unintelligible. That's not a judgement, as your English is probably still better than my Japanese, but it does underline, clearly, that an English-only support desk is going to have trouble understanding you.

So, having some sort of middle man who's fluent in your language is probably not as bad an idea as I initially thought.

I am sorry to have not conveyed my opinion correctly.




It is good that Japanese players increase in number.
(It ties up with NEXON)
A fee collection window's being restricted to NEXON is that it is not good.
The freedom of selection of a fee collection window should be given to a Japanese player.

The main reason why this forum is English-only is because the forum moderators speak English. If people were allowed to speak in whatever language they like, it would become very difficult for moderators to do their job. For all they know, people are making threats, using incredibly vulgar language, posting GM correspondence, describing exploits or any other number of rule violations.

Back onto the main topic:

1) I am incredibly upset that ANY EVE Online player is being discriminated against based on their country of origin. China is one thing, where the local laws requires a Chinese company to operate the MMO. But there are no laws in Japan (as far as I know, at least) which prohibit Japanese people from purchasing or playing a video game from another country. TBH, I liken this to saying that everyone with colored skin must do business with a provider "optimized for interfacing with people of colored skin". Do you see now why it might be considered unethical to coerce customers into certain billing methodologies based off of their race or country of residence?

2) This doesn't even make good business sense. Japanese players are now forced to maintain TWO separate accounts in order to play the game? Business sense 101 dictates that you want to make it AS EASY AS POSSIBLE for people to give you their money. The harder you make it, the fewer customers you get.

3) What about non-Japanese players who happen to live in Japan? Why should they be forced to use Google Translate to navigate through Nexon's website (their english site does not list EVE Online, as far as I can see). Yeah, I realize there are few, if any, people who fall into this category.

CCP really knows how to pick their partner companies. First they choose Sony which as we all know has been hacked multiple times. Now Nexon who is notorious with horrible account security and bad customer support. Added to the fact that they charge 2x/3x over the USD equivalent for their games.

I'm still waiting to see evidence that Nexon has problems protecting users billing and payment information. So far, I really haven't seen any.

The only thing I have seen are some issues with people breaking their pin security and gaining access to the accounts to take control of them and siphon off their in game assets. Not the same thing as your billing information.

While that is regrettable, in this case the Nexon ID is simply another layer of security on top of CCP's security. Even if they brute force Nexons pin system, they have no better chance of gaining access to the actual EVE account than they ever had.

I realize that Nexon is in the middle of a lot of bad press, and perhaps it is deserved... but having a local billing portal for a nation that is well known as being primarily monolingual is by no stretch of the imagination a discriminatory act. In fact, most would deem it considerate and simply good business.

As I said before, if I were playing a Japanese based game I certainly wouldn't want anything "lost in translation" when dealing with my money.

With Nexon promoting this, our main worry is going to be EVE's capability to handle the influx of new players.

Furthermore, Nexon is known to have billing & customer support issues besides the repeating cases of losing private info of customers to hackers. They are also fairly famous among Japanese gamers for freezing accounts without warning, and not responding at all to inquiries concerning such account freezes (supposedly due to "suspicious account activity"). Even if that doesn't mean your EVE account is compromized, it will sever the only means of access for players located in Japanese IPs (which is technologically regressive for a company that touts innovation).

That's the primary reason why Nexon's games are primarily aimed at novice gamers who are not all that security savvy. EVE will only whet the appetite of hard-core gamers in Japan, and they'll never consider having anything to do with Nexon. It's like handing over your credit card to a friendly guy you just met at a bar in Italy-- you won't do it unless you have an amazing lack of brain cells.

Unless CCP thinks their potential clientele in Japan are tween boys and girls (or bored housewives), Nexon is a fairly stupid choice. Anybody who has been in the Japanese network-based (and mobile games) scene would know this. CCP needs to do more research because they'll basically lose money on this deal (and customers).

I oppose.
If the payment for nexon is accepted, Japanese Alliances will be destroyed partially.

If you cannot read Japanese, where is the point in posting the links to those Japanese pages we know?
If you are so eager to find, why don't you google it "NEXON, Account Hack, Privacy" these words will show something you in English as well?

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20101026_402746.html

Here is an example of Japanese game news website "Game Watch" article on NEXON.
The article writer's Nexon account was hacked, and all his cash in the account was gone, and he reported this to NEXON which gave no support, he reported to police, and his lawyer as well with no solution.

I also had an experience of hack, my character was hacked, my gmail hacked right after this, sending spams to all my address book...
It was terrible.

Thank you for your sympathy.
Unfortunately, Paypal is not known "at all" in Japan.
And that means majority of Japanese would not trust Paypal, because they don't know it.
Japan is a peculiar nation...