EVE General Discussion

if they're good at what they do, why do they need to be given extra things to profit from?

It's not like you need blink in order to get gifts out to your average joe player. you've shown you can do that in many ways. for example the player count record thing when everyone emailed you a guess at the number. things dropped from wrecks in dev roams, etc.

also, this is really something some one else said and i'm just repeating, if you're giving things to blink and giving them cool ships to give away, why would any one play with one of blinks competitors when they've essentially been priced out of the market because you're handing blink prizes they can't compete with? (although i'm not sure that's a very compelling point, but i guess it's worth asking all the same)

due to the fact that it has been 2 acts of benevolence towards blink, and none to anyone doing similar things to blink it's very easy to interpret it as "favouritism" even if it isn't and it's just CCP exploring new avenues.

there is no difference between a painted magante and a painted scorpion. Both are useless but rare. The fact that the scorpion sells higher is because there are more people which want this particular useless but rare item.

CCP does not give out ISK. The item you get only allows you to transfer isk from people who collect useless but rare items to people who don't.

thats all.

because the ISW was the prize for the poker tournament, hence it was announced.

and the poker tournament was open to any one (i assume) and as such it was available to "everyone" and not just some one that CCP decided deserved it based on an unknown set of criteria.
also, generally, the people in the poker tournament put some extra effort in (you know, turning up to the poker tournament, and winning it) vs somer doing nothing that isn't day-to-day business for them.

The close to a trillion accusation comes from the previous gift package, not the ISW.

In the future I would suggest sticking to gifting plexes and the like. No one (or at least not many) would have batted an eye if you gave Somer 30 plexes. Nex clothes would also work.

Giving out unique ships in a spaceship sandbox....eh......not the best idea.

You failed to read this part...

You make it sound like as if creating and maintaining a well know eve online fansite + infrastructure and handling with employees is effortless.

i agree that ONLY out of game items should be given .... i also despise ISK giving in large quantities like bloody lotteries .. kind of destroys the point of having to earn isk the hard way like everyone else and the sense of achievement making isk off your own time and effort...

i would also like pirate noob ships to be cheap and attainable for all

Don't let the jealous screw up everyone else's fun. The ONLY problem with the ISW giveaways is that you gave so few of them out! I mean come on CCP... you've been running the most complex video game economy ever for 10 years and you don't know that? I don't believe that for a second. Not one. If you had dropped a bunch on the community it would be fine. Nobody would care. They are common and so they become worthless. Give them a slight handicap and give them away in bulk and you won't have a problem. So, be transparent about the numbers (because the markets need to know that) and don't create awards that us collectors are going to drive the price up on into the billions, otherwise you are giving away advantages. Also, the more you do this, and the more "special edition" assets are out there, the less people will care about them and the cheaper future gimped skin-job freebee ships will be. Somewhat self correcting over time, but just think about the market. Easy.

Second, I'd like to talk about the Gold Magnate. You should make more of them. Give them out as super high LP rewards. It's a shame not to use that model. Really silly in fact. Also, You should do the same for the serpentis corp and the guardian vex. I know this will lower the value on mine and I don't care. These are faction ships... it makes sense in the lore and just as a game to actually let the players USE them!

So those are my thoughts. Hope someone reads them.

Yeah, this is an even better idea tbh. I think its possible to reward people without compromising the integrity of the spaceship sandbox.