EVE General Discussion

Hey, I wish it was that simple but check out this devblog regarding the initial sale of the "Boxed EVE Online: Commissioned Edition:"

CCP Dev states the following regarding the Cerebral Accelerator: "This edition has been specifically designed to help a new player get up-to-speed. The exclusive in-game item this time is a booster called the Cerebral Accelerator. It boosts a number of player stats in a very meaningful way, but only temporarily. The Cerebral Accelerator checks the age of your character, counted from character creation date. It is designed to boost your first 30 days in EVE Online. If your character is 14 days old when you use the Cerebral Accelerator, you will only get 16 more days of boost."

The Devblog clearly stated that it is an exclusive item. Well... except the fact that its awesome "exclusiveness" lasted for only half a year. CCP decided to hand those out for "Power of 2" and as part of their Annual Christmas promotions."

Imagine... I went out to the damn Gamestop to purchase three copies of this awesome Commissioned Boxed Sets to obtain these unique Cerebral Accelarators under the premise that these are "EXCLUSIVE" to the specified purchases. I was pretty furious when it only took six months of waiting for EVERYONE ELSE to GET IT FOR FREE!

CCP needs to be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR about the word "exclusiveness" because I want to avoid the situation where I purchase something for the market value of $40 and later, find out that I can just get those for free or for merely the fraction of its initial cost.

I wonder what they are going to do with the Interbus Shuttle, it used to be yellow, now it looks butt ugly. I guess so no one would want one.

I have one, it came with my Apocrypha box I bought back in 2009. I still have it, just not happy with the color change. It's too subdued to me, but oh well.

Yes, because once a ship has been built in a limited run, there's no way we could possibly have the technology to ever create more.

And what's further, a shuttle that sells for a measly 15 million... meh, who would ever have any incentive to do so?

So, as you can see, it's completely immersion breaking for more of these ships to ever appear.


BAH

CCP, please don't feed the collectors. In fact, make every ship build-able. even if it's only thru reverse-engineering the original ship, and only has a 1 in a billion chance of being successful ( thinking for alliance rewards ). But all things should be player made, and all things should be make-able by the players. Do that, and you won't have to listen to any of these threads ever again.

I both agree and disagree.

I agree, because I like the fact that I have valuable items.

I disagree, because eventually, like everything, EVE will come to an end and these items will mean nothing, anyway. Plus, these are also the kind of topics you see on the WoW forums. And we know what kind of people post on those forums.

That's what I'd like to imagine. I mean, I can't really see the game ending any time soon (regardless of doomsayers) but it's a crap part of reality. :/

I don't think an issue has been adequately defined. The Aquamarine edition iteron is a good sign they are not simply re-releasing the same ships over and over again. Nobody was too happy about that (that cared about the topic at all). Still, they can put any content into the game they want. I have a Guardian-Vexor. Cost 39 bil. If they released a bunch more that would definitely hurt the resale on mine, but could it happen? Sure. Maybe a Guardian-Vex will be in a serpentis lp store at some point. It would be perfectly logical to do that. When you buy a unique ship those are the chances you take. Now, there are exceptions, particularly when you consider lore and methods of distribution. For instance, releasing more Freki assault ships would be in pretty poor taste since they were awarded for the AT VII. It wasn't a generic issue... it was just for AT VII. The state raven on the other hand, despite being an AT award, could end up on the Caldari LP store because it isn't branded with a specific event. The Echelon and Primae re-issues would have been easier to swallow had they not put in the Apotheosis as an option. Again, the Apotheosis was given for a specific non-repeating event. The other two are a little more generic. Again, I don't have an outright problem with wider ship offerings of unique ships. I just don't like that it's done arbitrarily. There's zero thought in the process from CCPs end and that is annoying. If they are going to re-issue Echelons, for example, why the hell not the Gold Magnate?

I totally agree. That is bulls***.

Again I guess I just see this as pretty straigt forward.

If they say something will be offered exclusively from a certain source then they should keep their word. If they don't say it will be exclusive then they can release it from other sources.

It appears they have called one thing (the cerebral accellerator) excusive in the past and released again from a different source. It appears the players called them out for this. Now that they know at least some of us really expect them to hold true to this I will wait and see. If they release these fanfest items from another source not only will I never participate in any other fanfest feeds, but I will no longer be a fan at all of the company at all.

As of right know I understand that yes they resold the cerebal accellerator. I will chalk that up as the left hand not realizing what the right hand had promised years ago. So I will cut them some slack. On the whole I consider ccp to be a very honest business. I tend to think adding that thing as a christmas gift was just a last minute throw in that wasn't thought through very well - as opposed to any intent to mislead people. The reason I think this is because I have found ccp devs gms and employees to generally be well above the curve in honesty.

But I think they know now. If they continue to try to sell services or products based on false claims exclusive items when they have no real intent to make them exclusive - well that is just a dishonest business practice.

Waits for a Punkturis troll.