Ha! You just described probably a quarter of EvE's demo.

After playing a few MMOs with Japanese players i learned a lot hate playing with anyone but their own kind. ESP in FFXI. So many Engrish NO THANKS messages while looking for a party.

- No giant mecha
- No catgirls
- No thinly disguised paedophilia

Somehow I don't think Eve will appeal to the core desires of Japanese gamers.

Will give suicide ganking a whole new historical context

To be honest English speaking people can be pretty snotty about language too. Try typing some foreign language in a local channel and I guarantee you will get an "English please!" outburst from someone within a couple lines. If you question this you well be told all about how America invented the internet so it naturally follows that everything must be written in English.

I am fluent in 3 languages and can get by in a 4th. I have no idea what my Russian colleagues are saying but I do notice they try a lot harder to speak English than English-speakers try to speak Russian...

Currently Japanese players who want to play EVE must bother themselves with English. Guess what? Video games in Japan are NOT in English, not any more than they are in Urdu in your local store. This means that the world's 2nd largest videogame market is but non-existant to EVE.

So now Nexon is gonna distribute a localized EVE client through their available payment methods. Maybe Japanese and other Asian got a reason to fear Nexon's own games, but EVE is not a Nexon game, it's a CCP game which Nexon just translates and distributes.

It will be good that this works out, as DUST's natural market is Japan too...

Rogue drones have kind of tentacles coming out of their hulls, though.......

English-speakers try to speak Russian...

I'm lost, what are you referring too?

Heck, if we got 5k more people on at all times that would be huge!!!

Well i cannot wait to kill a japanese pilot in single combat and then have him destroy his own pod in dishonour

In before a fleet full of these and these come and gank us all.

Real men wear pink.

Only men that wear pink think real men wear pink.

They rely need to look at getting Eve out to more places for more people can play it thats how they will get there name out there and grow some subs for there game. Because there are way too many people that I know that have never heard of Eve online.

I am fluent in 3 languages and can get by in a 4th. I have no idea what my Russian colleagues are saying but I do notice they try a lot harder to speak English than English-speakers try to speak Russian...

I'm lost, what are you referring too?


PC games don't do too well in Japan, they prefer consoles even more than we do. Those who do play PC games tend to be retired men with a little too much time on their hands. This is from first hand experience from my visit to a PC game show in Tokyo.

Not be racist or anything but the Japanese tend to be more into video games than most people of other cultures. So we can expect a huge jump in players.

However they also tend to be rather biased against western games and tend to prefer the games that were made in their own country so we might not see much of a change at all.

CCP is going to have to advertise harder than they have ever advertised before. And they are going to need to add a handful of ships that can turn into fighting robots.