EVE General Discussion

This somehow makes me suspect that a former EA executive had a hand in this.

I'm telling you, once EA (or anything related to EA) gets their hands on something, you can expect that thing to rot and become ruined.

CCP's prizes for player-run events in the past have been petty things like PLEX. If you cannot recognize the difference between something like CCP giving an organizer of an RL meetup a handful of timecodes and literally driving players towards a gambling site with the hopes of winning a prize - and the chance of winning those prizes increasing the more ISK they spend - all in exchange for that gambling site giving away petty prizes at EVE Vegas, I can't help you.

Also, you realize that EVE Vegas is an extremely expensive event to organize, right? According to Zapa, it's $19k in deposits and $40k after all is said and done. It has never so much as broken even.

Wow CCP.....Every now and then you come up with an idea that supercedes all others in stupidity and arrogance. You have reached yet another low.

Does the dept that dreams this stuff up have such staff turn-over that the new staff was not around to experience the rage from 2 summers ago?
When you are pissing off so many people from so many areas of the game, maybe it it is time to rethink the concept.

And as others have stated, this is the start of a slippery slope down to lotteries for gold ammo, implants, and ships, with the cash going to a player-run entity, with all profits into the hands of that entity.

Too late

http://cogdev.net/blink/?act=celebration

I have to agree with many in this Threadnaught.

Spawn new unique ships. Somer is fine for auctioning them off.

Please dont reintroduce the past. Let it keep it's glory (unless of course you hand them straight to me in which case I'll gladly accept them to decorate my hangar. )

My corps been around sense EvE was in Beta, and we also have the third Oldest character in game as a member, and he still plays!! Maybe we could get some dev favoritism as well.

There were (and are) still thousands of Apotheosis on the Market.

This issue is a completely different paradigm.

If you don't understand that, you just have not been playing that long or something.

it would have been better to just introduce new ships why the same ones??.. if this does happen you can voice your opinions in game in two ways, the players who will win these ships will self destruct instantly! or you should go out hunting to the people that won it and explode the ship for them! providing they undock..

Do you not realize that this would usher in the era where CCP hands out once unique ships to third parties like AOL Trial-Disk at the supermarket?

This is another spit on the face at the "collecting profession." When I started playing EVE, I loved the aspect of having ownership over these beautiful pixel ships with definite quantities in the market. There are those who spent thousands of hours to accumulate wealth (or spent thousands of dollars in cash for PLEX purchase), just to own these truly unique ships. Now that CCP is planning to print these unique ships like AOL Trial disks, preexisting owners will incur substantial loss as they see the market value of these ships go down.

Collecting unique items and seeing my "pixel investments" grow brought me ultimate joy years ago. Ever since the advent of handing out once-unique-items freely by CCP Marketing department, now, I am not even sure what to collect. I play this game with constant fear that whatever I bought will see their market value plunge due to CCP minting more ships.

I stopped collecting any "unique" items that were issued from 2009 and up. Please do not touch old unique ships that have standings in EVE history.

Tired line is tired.. I got some last night and this morning and still find this to be dumb. Should I have went for a third time would that have changed my attitude towards them doing something ridiculously dumb like this?