EVE General Discussion

I'll admit I am not the smartest person on the Internet.

That being said though with all the binge drinking, cosuming of illicit drugs and all night parties combined with bicycle assembly you tend to get this time of year I did not notice the arse about method of gift selection. After years of Pavlov's dogs training to click on the redeem button I've been waiting for it to do something.

I'll be happy to grab a freebie but I can't help but feel the solution is worse than the problem.

Hope you enjoyed your holiday season in the basement paying attention Landrae.

And just to add insult to eagerness, the petition system is failing silently at the moment.

Cool it's fixed now.

No, it means that the way they rolled out the gifts wasn't smooth or concise leading to issues. There were several issues that CCP is attempting to address.

1) Implants limited availability to be redeemed - effectively is like your parents giving you x-mas gifts but, only if you can unwrap them all within 10 seconds.

2) Second set of gifting wasn't advertised properly - initially it was a sub-topic that was casually mentioned in the new implants dev-blog. The only people talking about it were the people who read that dev-blog. Sorry, but lots of us don't read every blog. I saw people on the forum talking about the "gifts" but I had no clue. Now, being it was a subtopic and not knowing what dev blog it was in how do you suppose someone was supposed to know? I had to post on the forum asking about the gifts to get a straight answer.

3) Remaps as gifts - It was there, it was gone, there it was again - I actually chose my gift after CCP had said they were removing remaps with no indication that they would return. I had to petition to get remaps.

4) Gifts going to the wrong toons on accounts

So, yeah, CCP's deployment of gifting this year wasn't exactly smooth. Giving everyone until the 5th seems like good customer service.

i posted a topic about imo the information was fail about it, but i do think ccp solved it fair and rightly to make sure every person that doesnt read the forums 24/7 has a chance to get something now.

U can call the people that missed it blind or whatever but i for one seriously did not see any of it since i tend to focus on updates and corp/alliance forums, also im used to read downtime info or update info when i log in the client so the gift info is then easily missed.

I do appologize to the people that were offended by my topic.

I think the idea of giving players a choice from a wide range of gifts was PR genius. Almost negating that was the mystifying way it was "advertised" and enabled. The commitment to honor the gift anyway, irregardless of the circumstances, is another plus for CCP. I was one of the boneheads who even found the list, but still missed any reference to a deadline for making the choice. I petitioned as instructed, and after a few days I recieved a gift.The gift was only somewhat similar to what I asked for(my description was a bit dodgy, going from memory) but I'm not complaining. Free is free, for crying out loud.

There is CCP telling a player to" HTFU", and there is telling a customer "yes sir". Both have their place and time. Sometimes CCP has gotten it wrong, but this time they(eventually) got it right.

As with most things, some sharp people "got it" and some of us not-so-sharp people didn't. IN game that's fine. A company Xmas gift to it's customers? That's a no-brainer. Fix it. They did(are). End of story, and nothing to complain about.

Long Live EVE.

Quick note to CCP to avoid this trouble in the future:

Default to one specific gift if a player does not make a selection for their account by the deadline, so no one feels they got "stiffed".

The holiday six5-pack of Quafe Zero would have been a good choice here as it is a consumable item and was already given out as a previous freebie.

With all that said, I was paying attention and my accounts got their chosen gifts without any issues. Except I don't have a basement. It would have flooded at least once this year most likely.

I got my gifts via petition as I missed the poorly thought-out one-time ad (it was hidden behind a patch notice) and didn't see the news item on the right side. I admit I wasn't paying attention to that, but when that "news" is just as often full of irrelevant stuff or outright fiction (game lore storylines) I've learned to ignore it.

In the future, CCP, please remember that you built a very functional e-mail system inside Eve that would be perfect for letting people know about things. And there's a nifty calender that you could post it to. You could also do something like put a "gift token" in the redeemable items that would tell people how to get their goodies.

Just a reminder from Real World:

A week ago, petition system was already clogged with 5,500 pending petitions (vs. an average of 1,500).

So, good luck petitioning anything for the next, huh, month?

The Stoopid, making somebody else's issues become your trouble since ever.