EVE General Discussion

But then they'll have to be creative and like make new ships and all

The re-releasing of limited edition items is extremely frustrating to rare item collectors such as myself.

First the ishukone shirts, and the 3 months it took for an official CCP reimbursement. Then then women's red/black coats (no reimbursement provided). Then the echelon, sansha codebreaker, primae. Then the snowball launchers that got needlessly deleted to make room for the new festival launcher (destroying hundreds of billions in rare collections). Today -- CCP act to destroy the value of these rare destroyers.

CCP, I don't give a damn what you choose to release or not, but you need to tell us whether an item is actually special edition, or whether it's just a limited release. Right now the echelon and these catalysts are in the "special edition" section of the market which strongly implied that no more of them would ever be created. At the very least there is huge ambiguity here.

I don't want to hear about how you can't give us guarantees -- you can. It would be trivial for you to come out and say that items X, Y and Z would not be re-released. Can I be certain that alliance tournament ships won't be re-released in a future buddy programme? Can I be certain the state issue ships won't be given away as part of some ******** PLEX promotion? Can I be certain I won't wake up to find all players have received T2 BPOs as part of a holiday gift?

CCP, there is no need for this uncertainty. Your current approach is destructive towards the style of play of all item collectors across New Eden.

The first release had black borders and more rounded edges on the pixels.

The new ones are all foil bordered pixels.

If you were a true collector you could tell the difference.

It wasn't specifically directed at you either, your post just snuck in before mine did while I was writing.

I understand collectors items that you can invest in and take down to the local comic/card store or pawnbroker ... I have a bit of trouble taking in-game collectors items too seriously though.

Have they ever run such a promotion, though?

Lesson provided: special-event items are not “limited editions”. Lesson learned: none.

No. It just implies that they're not something that's not produced in-game.

No.

Yes, ishukone shirts come to mind.



I'm asking CCP to communicate ahead of time which items are special and which are not. Communicating by giving mixed signals then re-releasing items at random as some kind of "lesson" is not good communication. CCP's current approach marginalizes my style of gameplay, so what's the lesson I'm supposed to take from that? That collecting rare items is not a legitimate occupation in EVE Online?



You see "special edition" and think one thing, I see it and think another. My point was this whole system is completely ambiguous, so I'll take this as further evidence of that fact. As I stated before I don't mind what CCP do as long as they make it clear which ships are special and which are not.



Again this is my whole point. I want to invest a huge amount of time in acquiring these rare items, but I can't do it if they get re-released every week. It wouldn't take much for CCP to remove the ambiguity.

Better yet, stop making limited edition ships which sit and gather dust in hangers.

They make you angry, bro ?

Lol magic the Gathering player? :P

I am also a collector so I appreciate what you are saying, but as long as they do not start being seeded they are still special /limited edition.
The risk we take as collector is re-issues and found caches of lost assets.
I want a guardian vexor for my collection, but if there's one left it will never happen.
If there is a limited re-release I might have the chance, and we might see one used in a tournament!