But there's more to eve than just making ISK?

I'd argue that just making ISK isn't experiencing EVE at all, but reality TV shows hardly make much sense to me anyway.

I'll pod her any day. Why doesn't English speaking side of CCP do weird promos like this?

I really need to engage with the japanese community more...

I find this both horrifying and deeply amusing and i want in!

Edit, wait this is all being done in Gunma??? Thats an odd location.

Further edit.

The comment section is fantastic! the Japanese community moans the same as us!

This makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

I particularly like the null ranting.

Wow! That's a brilliant variation on the Japanese "torture and humiliate the contestants game show" theme. This I hope the contestant doesn't starve for lack of ISK. But then again, Miss Seventeen Magazine 2004 might be brighter than she looks in her photo.
On second thought, she'll never starve. This is EVE-- she'll just scam billions of ISK. Loads of eager male players will happily give them to her.

Judging by how she is blogging, I'm quite sure our Japanese counterparts are just as troll as she is frivolous. (Started asking which faction to choose, ended up saying any of them is fine) . Commentors are egging her to either Start a corp/ join a nullsec bloc .

I imagine loads of horny basementdwellers will love this.
How big is the Japanese community in EVE anyway? If my memory serves me right I remember seeing loads of people with names written in Kanji(?) in the newbie zones like a year ago, but have never seen anyone since.

LOL, if they did, it would be one of us neckbeards/pencil-necked geeks that would be the contestant.

I have an urge to suicide gank... and see what happens...

But there's more to eve than just making ISK?

I'd argue that just making ISK isn't experiencing EVE at all, but reality TV shows hardly make much sense to me anyway.

LOL, me too, for some reason. Introduce some "player-created content" early on in the EVE career.

I was thinking along the lines of "ALL HAIL BRITTANIA!!!"

Seems like they blew all of the possible drama of the contest when they picked a cute girl as the contestant. She was bound to get free isk, free help, and lots of kindness loaded on her. That's not only takes the challenge out of it, it's pretty much the opposite what EVE is all about.

Not sure if this is the correct place to post (Dev/ISD please move it to the correct forum if I am wrong)

Was browsing the Japanese Eve main page when I saw this post .( http://community2.eveonline.com/ja/communication/news/2month_evelife_01 , http://eveonline.nexon.co.jp/campaign/challenge.aspx )

Apparently Nexon, for promotional purposes for Eve Online has set up a audition for a reality series for the selected person to experience eve online for 2 months. Said Audition can be watched at http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv140532500 (if you have premium nicovideo account).

The Selected candidate was announced today to be Ms Kazuha Asaki. (http://ameblo.jp/asakikazuha/ blog is here for those interested.)


It will be broken into two segments .
From the 11th of June to 10th July she will be blogging on her escapades as a new player in eve on a blog (http://asakikazuha.blog.fc2.com/)

From the 11th July onwards, she will be placed in a house , then what she gets for food would be based on her performance in eve eg isk making. This will be livestreamed on Nicovideo and Stickam for 12 hours daily till the 11th of August.



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Profile

Name : Asaki Kazuha µ¦àµ£¿S+ÇFÅ»
Size : T162cm S22.5cm B80 W56 H80
DOB : 1st September 1986 (26)
Blood Type : O
Born in : Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Interests : Soft Tennis, Hurdles

Taken from the Japanese wiki page for her.

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Your right, next time i want to see a vicious ass hole try to survive lol.

Seems like they blew all of the possible drama of the contest when they picked a cute girl as the contestant. She was bound to get free isk, free help, and lots of kindness loaded on her. That's not only takes the challenge out of it, it's pretty much the opposite what EVE is all about.

That horrible realisation that Graygor got 37 new recruits for his emerging Keiretsu and that we should be afraid of his emerging power. This is how Goonswarm began, by finding such a ruthless pool that could be focused on eve like a lightning rod.

Seems like they blew all of the possible drama of the contest when they picked a cute girl as the contestant. She was bound to get free isk, free help, and lots of kindness loaded on her. That's not only takes the challenge out of it, it's pretty much the opposite what EVE is all about.

Or-Ru Hay-ru BuRiTaNiA-!!!!

To get the right inflection.

Equally good.

I'll pod her any day. Why doesn't English speaking side of CCP do weird promos like this?

They recruited mintchip.

frankly, we got everything we deserved. :(

I thought CCP Mintchip was a joke?

They didn't seriously do that did they? It was an April fools?

Its just me being jelly that someone gets to play eve for 2 mths as her job :X

If it attracts the no lifer Japanese menfolk (there are plenty) it can only be good to encourage plenty of fools to be ripped off, and some of them will embrace their inner darkness and devote their energies and destroy all western industrialists... before they merge TQ with the Chinese server that is.

I managed to convince a few of my Japanese workers to try eve, our lead translator has really gotten into it. And by that... i mean Japanese level of getting into something. He's dedicated himself to finding the optimal frigate / destroyer setup for ganking each type of small ship / fit he might find in lowsec. He seems to enjoy being a cutthroat son of a female dog even if he's only been playing a month.

Its gotten so much that every non work related conversation we have now is about eve.

He's a natural born ganker and lowlife.

*sniff*

I couldnt be more proud.

I regret that I have but one Like to give to this post.
Gray, salute to you-- you have done a fine service to all of EVE.