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Brutor Shaun
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Posted - 2007.07.10 16:57:00 -
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I was looking through the shelves in my local store, and all the rest are there.....WoW, etc.
Why isn't Eve available in a retail box? I know it's free to download, but surely it would sell at ú5.00, and draw in more people.
There's always new gamers emerging, but Eve doesn't really get that much magazine coverage, and unless they know what they're looking for they won't find it!
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Jim McGregor
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Posted - 2007.07.10 16:58:00 -
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It was back in 2003. I had my box until about a year ago when I cleaned it out together with some other stuff. 
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The Mantra
Caldari
Knights of Sovereignty
United Corporations of Eve
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Posted - 2007.07.10 16:59:00 -
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Used to be in the shops, long before I started playing :)
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Brutor Shaun
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:01:00 -
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Yeah, I know it used to be. There's some on Ebay. Why isn't it now?
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The Mantra
Caldari
Knights of Sovereignty
United Corporations of Eve
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:02:00 -
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Originally by: Brutor Shaun
Yeah, I know it used to be. There's some on Ebay. Why isn't it now?
There's a proper explanation and a glib explanation.
The glib explanation is they ran out of stock.
I don't know the proper one.
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Gord Ackfordham
Fenscore Enterprises
United Corporations Against Macros
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:02:00 -
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Edited by: Gord Ackfordham on 10/07/2007 17:02:21
(edited for grammar)
there was an article which said that eve was returning to retail outlets in north america... not quite sure when. it was the same article that said that there would be a mac and linux native client coming out soon.
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Krugerrand
0utbreak
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:12:00 -
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CCP split off from the publisher or something like that.
Either way its not really a necessity in the age of the download.
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Gord Ackfordham
Fenscore Enterprises
United Corporations Against Macros
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:14:00 -
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Originally by: Krugerrand
CCP split off from the publisher or something like that.
Either way its not really a necessity in the age of the download.
unless you're on dialup.  
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Piotr Anatolev
Gallente
The Geriatrics
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:22:00 -
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I want an eve box too :(
At least print some up and make available through the online store.
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Seeing EyeDog
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:24:00 -
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Originally by: Gord Ackfordham
Originally by: Krugerrand
CCP split off from the publisher or something like that.
Either way its not really a necessity in the age of the download.
unless you're on dialup.
if you're on dial up, perhaps Eve isnt the game for you.
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DubanFP
Caldari
Four Rings
D-L
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:24:00 -
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Originally by: Seeing EyeDog
Originally by: Gord Ackfordham
Originally by: Krugerrand
CCP split off from the publisher or something like that.
Either way its not really a necessity in the age of the download.
unless you're on dialup.
if you're on dial up, perhaps Eve isnt the game for you.
QFT
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Sertan Deras
Merch Industrial
We Are Nice Guys
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:26:00 -
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Originally by: Gord Ackfordham
Edited by: Gord Ackfordham on 10/07/2007 17:02:21
(edited for grammar)
there was an article which said that eve was returning to retail outlets in north america... not quite sure when. it was the same article that said that there would be a mac and linux native client coming out soon.
I would like to know about the Mac client. My wife uses a MacBook Pro for school and currently she is learning to play EVE on my work laptop, or my gaming PC when I am not home. She would much prefer to run it on her Mac. Is there any other info on this around?
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Matthew Cooper
Minmatar
Who What When Where Why and How
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:27:00 -
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Originally by: DubanFP
Originally by: Seeing EyeDog
Originally by: Gord Ackfordham
Originally by: Krugerrand
CCP split off from the publisher or something like that.
Either way its not really a necessity in the age of the download.
unless you're on dialup.
if you're on dial up, perhaps Eve isnt the game for you.
QFT
From 2004-2005 I played EVE over dial-up when I was visiting home from school, it wasn't good, but it wasn't horrible, but then again I didn't try to do PvP or Level 4 missions when I was home either.
Originally by: Tarminic
Stop posting with your alt Kieron.
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Velsharoon
Gallente
Endgame.
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:28:00 -
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Your better off downloading anyway seeing as the release from 4 years ago is rather out of date :)
And after Simon and Schuster sold their games division or whatever CCP got the rights to distribute the game themselves so its dl only, but I saw a link somewere that they are publishing a disk version again.
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Crumplecorn
Gallente
Eve Cluster Explorations
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:29:00 -
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It's because you don't find EVE.
EVE finds you.
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Winterblink
Body Count Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:33:00 -
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Still have my boxed copy. The manual's a hilarious read, now.
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Gord Ackfordham
Fenscore Enterprises
United Corporations Against Macros
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:36:00 -
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Edited by: Gord Ackfordham on 10/07/2007 17:35:42
(edited for linky)
Originally by: Sertan Deras
Originally by: Gord Ackfordham
Edited by: Gord Ackfordham on 10/07/2007 17:02:21
(edited for grammar)
there was an article which said that eve was returning to retail outlets in north america... not quite sure when. it was the same article that said that there would be a mac and linux native client coming out soon.
I would like to know about the Mac client. My wife uses a MacBook Pro for school and currently she is learning to play EVE on my work laptop, or my gaming PC when I am not home. She would much prefer to run it on her Mac. Is there any other info on this around?
this is all i got, sorry if its too vague.
clicky
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Matthew Cooper
Minmatar
Who What When Where Why and How
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:37:00 -
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Originally by: Winterblink
Still have my boxed copy. The manual's a hilarious read, now.
It was a hilarious read 3 years ago too.
Originally by: Tarminic
Stop posting with your alt Kieron.
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CrimsonLobo
Caldari
Southern Cross Incorporated
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:43:00 -
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Timecards for sale would be handy =/.
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Lady Natacha
Minmatar
Water and Power
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:46:00 -
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In Soviet Russia, Box retails you!
Could not help myself..
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MotherMoon
Huang Yinglong
Namtz'aar k'in
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:53:00 -
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Originally by: Crumplecorn
It's because you don't find EVE.
EVE finds you.
it's true
I will playing sci fi games and mmorpg for a whole year looking for ANYTHING to play other than wow that was a muliplayer space game
I didn't find ****
unless you type in EVE you won't find this game anywhere. I still don't remember how I found eve :P
I think it was when I found mmorpg.com
the top on the list was eve online
I thought it would be a wow type game or something and then
BAM
it's been over a year and I'm loving it
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Yakia TovilToba
Halliburton Inc.
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Posted - 2007.07.10 17:58:00 -
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I think this would destribute a lot to the growth of eve. I sometimes ask people in other mmorgs if they play eve and the answer is "eve ? never heard of it", so seems some casual players (not the mmorg-phreaks that check mmorpg.com & co frequently for new games) even don't know eve exists, and would find out if they saw the box in their local gamestore. But then i don't know if ccp wants to grow eve fast rather then remaining at its current size with moderate growth maybe, as this might lead to lag and system overload, when you all of a sudden have 40 or 50k+ people online. Maybe if they see a stagnation in the growth they can introduce that in some countries ... however, there is a quite large market left for eve, as many people simply don't know about eve's existence. Maybe ccp should advertise outside mmorpg-sites aswell but again, that all depends on ccp's goals, maybe bigger is not always better, and if there were so much people here like in wow we'd have quite a chaos i think and jita might have a couple of thousands in local.
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Sertan Deras
Merch Industrial
We Are Nice Guys
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Posted - 2007.07.10 18:01:00 -
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I agree with your point Yakia, but don't forget that EVE has such a crazy learning curve at first, that many people throw their hands up and move elsewhere even if they do know the game exists. It's like a Tootsie-pop. No one actually cares about the candy coated shell, they want the damn tootsie center, but you have to work down the candy shell first (hopefully not breaking any teeth in the process) and then you get the tasty, tasty tootsie center. Mmm, tootsie center. So yah, that's my annoyingly stupid analogy for the day.
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marioman
Caldari
Eye of God
X-PACT
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Posted - 2007.07.10 18:04:00 -
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Originally by: Seeing EyeDog
Originally by: Gord Ackfordham
Originally by: Krugerrand
CCP split off from the publisher or something like that.
Either way its not really a necessity in the age of the download.
unless you're on dialup.
if you're on dial up, perhaps Eve isnt the game for you.
So uneducated about this.
Ive played EVE on dialup 2 out of 3 years. I did everything on dialup as I do now on DSL. I even did fleet battle with Teamspeak, could talk and listen with no issues.
EVE itself uses hardly any bandwidth because of the way it was made, and was initially designed with dialup in mind.
Actually 56k is in the system requirements
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Gord Ackfordham
Fenscore Enterprises
United Corporations Against Macros
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Posted - 2007.07.10 18:05:00 -
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Originally by: Yakia TovilToba
I think this would distribute a lot to the growth of eve. I sometimes ask people in other mmorpgs if they play eve and the answer is "eve ? never heard of it", so seems some casual players (not the mmorg-phreaks that check mmorpg.com & co frequently for new games) even don't know eve exists, and would find out if they saw the box in their local gamestore.
*snip*
however, there is a quite large market left for eve, as many people simply don't know about eve's existence. Maybe ccp should advertise outside mmorpg-sites aswell but again, that all depends on ccp's goals *snip*.
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CCP needs to advertise EvE more if they want a bigger population. word of mouth is nice, but doesn't seem to be enough. Hopefully with a retail box returning to stores, population will go up.
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Andrue
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.07.10 19:18:00 -
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Originally by: Brutor Shaun
I was looking through the shelves in my local store, and all the rest are there.....WoW, etc.
What's a 'local store'?
Oh wait..you mean one of those old..er..now what were they called..shops! That's the one. I remember them. Are they still around?
Wow.
Mind you it took a while for the horse and cart to die out.
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(Battle hardened industrialist)
[Brackley, UK]
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Wagstaff
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Posted - 2007.07.10 19:29:00 -
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Originally by: Andrue
Oh wait..you mean one of those old..er..now what were they called..shops! That's the one. I remember them. Are they still around?
Exactly - these days game stores mostly sell console stuff. Console or PC they also sell only brand new games or used games they got for cheap. Actually getting a distribution deal is tough, and neither distributors or store owners want to stock a 3 or 4 year old game. Long term more and more stuff will end up getting distributed over the Internet with stuff like Steam and Direct2Drive, though Internet distribution seems to be taking its sweet time getting off the ground.
Possibly a better way to go, if CCP wanted to burn some money, would be to put a trial account CD as a freebie into some issue of a gaming magazine. If Eve wins whatever award, that might be a good move.
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Silver Night
Caldari
Intergalactic Combined Technologies
THE INTERSTELLAR FOUNDRY
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Posted - 2007.07.10 19:49:00 -
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A I understand it, CCP purchased the publishing rights back from their publisher. Guess they felt they weren't doing a good enough job or something. Anyway, player numbers started to go up way faster after that. It would be cool to see Eve in stores though. Maybe time it with one of the expansions, so they can drum up a little publicity. Think of all the innocent noobs, not knowing what they have just blundered into. Maybe thinking, "Oh, WOW in space!"...
It would be glorious.
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Caldari Patriot.
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Gord Ackfordham
Fenscore Enterprises
United Corporations Against Macros
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Posted - 2007.07.10 19:49:00 -
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Originally by: Wagstaff
Possibly a better way to go, if CCP wanted to burn some money, would be to put a trial account CD as a freebie into some issue of a gaming magazine. If Eve wins whatever award, that might be a good move.
with the massive invention referred to as "the internets", do people still order magazines?
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Dred'Pirate Jesus
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2007.07.10 20:07:00 -
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I'll bet the new slim case trial version disks they are going to put out are going to be timed with the new client.. I don't really think the state of the current client and servers could handle a massive influx of new members with the exposure a retail box would give Eve at this time.. 
Originally by: David Hackworth
ò If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
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