DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.09.01 00:04:26 -
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The first MMORPG I ever played was a game called DarkSpace which I played for 1 1/2 years. It was mainly PvP with spaceships taking over planets which were built up to gain control of the Universe. During that time I saw in-game chat about Eve Online. Needless to say it was presented in a very negative aspect so I never gave Eve Online a second thought.
Eventually I started to grow tired of the constant PvP aspect in that game so I quit. However, the building of planets had peeked my interest in PvE and I started to look for another MMORPG spaceship game.
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Eve was advertised during BSG on the SyFy channel, I don't know if they still do as I tend to stream shows without adverts. I saw that TV Ad on 5/30/2008 while watching BSG series. That was about 6 months after I had stopped playing DarkSpace. At first I thought that commercial was actually part of the show until I saw the Eve Online credits at the end. That made me remember seeing chat about it while playing DarkSpace. Since I was looking for a new MMORPG to play, I decided to do some research on it and spent a couple of weeks checking out the Internet.
I got very interested in the PvE aspect of Eve Online due to Exploration videos made by DNightmare. On 6/23/2008 I started my 14 day free Trial Account. I was hooked and on 7/6/2008 I started a subscription and haven't looked at any other MMORPG since then.
Bumblefck wrote:What's the point, though? It's meaningless, as EVE is such a niche product and experience - so much so that it is perhaps not beyond the realms of possibility that if you seriously wanted to play this game, you would've arrived here under your own power, not through advertising.
That's how I ended up here, meandering through the internet and not through advertising. I'm sure it was the same for others. Everybody has a different story about how they heard about / started playing this game. I'm sure there are other players besides me who started playing this game due to the advertising done on TV.
I believe all types of advertising media should be used to gain new players. In my opinion even if it brings in 1 more player then it's well worth it. I've been here for well over 7 years now due to seeing a 30 second TV Commercial.
DMC
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