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Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.04.15 23:46:55 -
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I ask because I never see ads for it anywhere that I go on the internet. |
Dani Maulerant
Order of the Valkyrie LOADED-DICE
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Posted - 2015.04.15 23:48:57 -
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Now that you mention it, the only place I have seen ads are sites that are already connected to EVE such as the player news sites and such. But I've never been on a regular video games news site, or entertainment page, and seen an EVE ad.
hmmmm.... |
Ned Thomas
Signal Cartel EvE-Scout Enclave
1581
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Posted - 2015.04.15 23:58:15 -
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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.
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Mario Putzo
1186
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:02:53 -
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EVE advertises itself. |
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:13:45 -
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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.
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Paranoid Loyd
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:20:29 -
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Everyone always bags on Steam but Steam is how I found Eve.
"Gankers are just other players, not supernatural monsters who will get you if you don't follow some arbitrary superstition. Haul responsibly and without irrational fear." Masao Kurata
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Kaarous Aldurald
Glorious Revolutionary Armed Forces of Highsec CODE.
12629
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:23:34 -
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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'.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
23627
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:25:26 -
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Who needs to advertise when the BBC cover nullsec events or the collapse of the EBank. When things like the Guiding Hand Social Club escapade are talked about in the mainstream press, on gaming sites and game forums regardless of their flavour.
Civilized behaviour is knowing that violence is barbaric, but paying other people to do it is business.
Nil mortifi sine lucre.
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Velarra
361
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:30:12 -
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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. |
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local Break-A-Wish Foundation
2110
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:31:46 -
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I used to get a metric buttload of EVE ads everwhere, particularly the "be the villain" ones when that was a thing. Also I remember seeing the Incursion cinema trailer (which was for some reason worse than the regular incursion trailer).
With Valkyrie and DUST (and ostensibly Legion) using money for development I can imagine there not being a tremendous quantity of spare revenue for ad campaigns right now. |
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Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War Amarr Empire
1883
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:38:01 -
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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) |
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
100
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Posted - 2015.04.16 00:38:37 -
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:I used to get a metric buttload of EVE ads everwhere, particularly the "be the villain" ones when that was a thing. Also I remember seeing the Incursion cinema trailer (which was for some reason worse than the regular incursion trailer).
With Valkyrie and DUST (and ostensibly Legion) using money for development I can imagine there not being a tremendous quantity of spare revenue for ad campaigns right now.
As much as I think marketing and 'consultants' waste a metric gluteus-ton of money, you must keep new eyes coming to your product if you have people wandering away, or your subscriber base gets too low before you've realized you're in trouble. |
Zealous Miner
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Posted - 2015.04.16 04:05:04 -
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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.
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Schmata Bastanold
Imperial Collective Unsettled.
3049
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Posted - 2015.04.16 04:09:46 -
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Hard to say with AdBlock enabled for everything :)
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Rastafarian God
76
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Posted - 2015.04.16 04:11:27 -
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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.
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
1033
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Posted - 2015.04.16 04:42:39 -
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Paranoid Loyd wrote:Everyone always bags on Steam but Steam is how I found Eve.
I remember for a while when steam was still new and it would poop itself pretty much every time it being sucky. but I haven't had a problem with it in forever. That said it sounds like having an eve account through steam has a few annoyances, but I haven't had to deal with it. Also sounds like a bunch of people seem to join Eve whenever there is a steam sale.
I question the effectiveness of ads. Seeing banner adds for games really does nothing for me. Things like the This is eve trailer, that spread more organically and tell a story seem to be far more effective.
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Yang Aurilen
The Mjolnir Bloc The Bloc
655
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Posted - 2015.04.16 04:57:47 -
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The internet has ads?
Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!
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Rastafarian God
76
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Posted - 2015.04.16 05:01:43 -
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A friend of mine recently switched over to steam for EVE. (not sure how that works though)
Only reason he did it was for the automatic updates so he doesnt have to wait for the game to update when he goes to log in.
Only benifate I can think of. |
Zappity
Stay Frosty. A Band Apart.
1962
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Posted - 2015.04.16 05:04:54 -
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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 sounds suspiciously like a success story to me.
Edit: Oh, and I've never seen an EVE ad anywhere.
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Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous WINMATAR.
35386
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Posted - 2015.04.16 05:21:35 -
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a simple googling of "the largest online battle" reveals the real advertisements.
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Rastafarian God
76
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Posted - 2015.04.16 05:30:13 -
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Liafcipe9000 wrote:a simple googling of "the largest online battle" reveals the real advertisements.
Problem is that you have to google that. Proper marketing is forced upon you.
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Dun'Gal
Myriad Contractors Inc.
217
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Posted - 2015.04.16 06:06:22 -
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I guess as one of the few people on the internets who doesn't use an adblocker I may be in the minority here, but I see ads for Eve all over, in fact I was introduced to Eve via the "Be a Pirate" Eve Online ad. |
Rastafarian God
76
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Posted - 2015.04.16 06:14:12 -
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Dun'Gal wrote:I guess as one of the few people on the internets who doesn't use an adblocker I may be in the minority here, but I see ads for Eve all over, in fact I was introduced to Eve via the "Be a Pirate" Eve Online ad.
To be fair... you have to be someone that doesn't use ad block to know for sure.
Although, there any TV ads? |
Yun Kuai
Justified Chaos Spaceship Bebop
247
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Posted - 2015.04.16 08:34:09 -
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Rastafarian God wrote:Dun'Gal wrote:I guess as one of the few people on the internets who doesn't use an adblocker I may be in the minority here, but I see ads for Eve all over, in fact I was introduced to Eve via the "Be a Pirate" Eve Online ad. To be fair... you have to be someone that doesn't use ad block to know for sure. Although, there any TV ads?
I started playing at the end of '08. I remember sitting in my apartment eating some ice cream watching G4 when the advertisement came on. It was a pretty quick advertisement, and **** me I didn't have a pen to write down the name of the game. As you can imagine, I watched G4 for the next few days straight wating for that advertisement to come back on. Success! It came on again (******* late I might add) and I was ready with pen and paper.
So yeah, their TV ads did a good job if you can imagine 30secs got me wanting to see the ad again so I can go play the game. Granted, I never saw another advertisement again and like others I haven't seen an ad on the interwebs in a long time.
The "This is EvE" clip would make a perfect 30sec-1min ad. Place it on the syfy network and boom you're getting hundreds of people playing.
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Ro Fenrios
Armilies corporation Balcora Gatekeepers
78
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Posted - 2015.04.16 14:47:22 -
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Have not seen eve advertizing itself much. First time I learned about it was from a gaming magazine that had article about the complexity and player driven content in the game. That struck my curiosity back then. On silly note though, I work in online retail store and we do have several shops around. We have Eve trailer running in gaming section on big screen among other game trailers even when we do not sell EVE online. |
Oraac Ensor
621
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Posted - 2015.04.16 15:34:50 -
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Online adverts were how I discovered EVE.
Everywhere I went on the Web I kept seeing EVE ads, but I was a Homeworld 2 Complex Mod addict at the time so I didn't at first take much notice. Curiosity eventually got the better of me and I started to read up bits and pieces until I finally plucked up the courage to dive in.
[Edit] But, strangely, I don't remember seeing many ads since joining. A bit odd, that. |
Luna Arindale
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve Curatores Veritatis Alliance
59
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Posted - 2015.04.16 15:46:30 -
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I think I hear about it my last year of middle school from a friend during a discussion of the biggest online scams, attempted to play it... Failed miserably because it auto set the graphics to highest and my computer at that time was not able to handle that, fast forward to like 2010, 2011 Got into another trial account or two, because of minecraft buddies. Trials ran out, fast forward to December 2012 actually got into eve. However I only ever got ads for eve and still get ads after I have already been subscribed for over 2 years on pretty much every website I go to. I half scream at the ads, I already spend money on this game! I don't want to spend more damnit! |
Nalia White
Tencus
109
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Posted - 2015.04.16 16:03:26 -
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Rastafarian God wrote: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.
my experience also. actualy i remember when rubicon hit i was always seeing banners on youtube for eve and i think even the trailer as an ad for a clicked video.
also all the eve banners on killboard sites |
Mdram
Universalis Imperium The Bastion
0
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Posted - 2015.04.16 16:11:13 -
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used to have tv ads on during BSG on sci-fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QImCw7WHOc |
Jenshae Chiroptera
1350
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Posted - 2015.04.16 16:11:55 -
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Better question:
Does EVE target market? e.g. Universities, Linux people and such where they will find people who want a more challenging game.
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