EVE General Discussion

Anytime the Marketing Department get a "brilliant" idea, they never consult the CSM.

Well apparently they did it in order to "investigate" what kind of reaction this thing will get.

One can of course argue that why you couldn't investigate, think and consult before actually doing anything? Well that wouldn't be dumb or provocative, would it? And that was the whole point of this thing.

False dichotomy is false.

There are many more explanations, mostly revolving around the CCP staff involved not having their fingers on the pulse when it comes to understanding the value of scarcity, the psychology of collectors, or the need to maintain trust in the issue of unique versus limited-run versus timed limited offers.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

What do you mean by "now" ;)

The fact that they didn't consult the body of player representatives that were formed in part as a result of devs spawning items for a particular player group about the the decision to spawn items for a particular player group says it all.

CCP don't give a flying toss anymore. Screw the sandbox, screw fairness and balance, lets rush into all kinds of horribly thought out things for an attempt at grabbing some short term publicity.

They'll succeed, after a fashion. They'll get plenty of publicity - albeit the same kind of publicity they got after T20 handed out BPOs, and after the "Greed is good" debacle with $60 virtual pants.

may aswell drop a can with 50 bpos in it

OH... wait that was a done a few years ago

Or even sub-groups.

Yes, because we all have the ability to find out the name of every new product and company which comes to market, and the time to trawl through industry sites and publications to find the new cool company we want to support.

Totally useless, all marketing.

Another sign of rushed decision-making is the fact that the relative popularity and trustworthiness of SOMER Blink was not taken into account, or probably even assessed. If CCP had polled pilots about what they thought about S'Blink, it would be somewhere between lukewarm and dishwater. It's not about how trustworthy S'Blink really is - it's about how trustworthy pilots think they are.

Not the kind of group to announce an exciting alliance with. It would be like CCP rolling out a dazzling, sparkling marketing partnership with the Sansha Nation - it would go over like a fart in church.

You're totally wright the thing that worries me is that it's was the community manager that announces it

Of all the groups it had to be them the ones that should know they clients better then no one

We disagree because you're under the illusion that these forums represent a majority of the average players; like all such gaming forums, they do not. We are the vocal minority who take a more-than-active interest in the game. The guy who logs in for an hour or two a night to burn some asteroids or run some missions, and is blinking away in the IGB the whole time doesn't generally read or participate in these forums, nor does he particularly distrust SOMERblink. To these people, it's fun gambling, and they don't care if they're being scammed or not. I needn't meet you in the middle, because there is no controversy; fools and their money are soon parted, be it by an actual malevolent scam, or an up-and-up gambling experience. Either way, they're going to shovel their money into it.

The ultimate result of this is that people, many of them having never blinked before, will be tripping over themselves to play blink when the time comes, and it will be a slam dunk for CCP's marketing department. By then the eight or ten people who are actually going to quit EVE forever over this will have done so, and the rest of us will be catfighting over whatever the new bellyache is for that week.