EVE General Discussion

Sure, once you prove to me your credibility over the course of say a year.

I gather you really don't understand how sacrificing an incredibly lucrative income stream for a small one time gain is something only really stupid people do in game... including those with a questionable moral compass.

You know CCP, when you have Chribba, pirates, hisec bears, Goons, former BoB members, PL members, newbies, veterans, bittervets, collectors, and basically everyone in this game that isn't a complete troll or Blink fanboy telling you that you're doing something completely wrong to the point where you're repeating the same mistakes that caused the media storm that led to your creation of the very player council you failed to consult on this issue, you are seriously screwing up.

That too.

I looked, but I'm having a hard time finding the original competition where the Guardian Vexor BPC's were awarded. Did you have better luck than I?

I still remember it as a trivial reward of several 5 run bpc's given out for some sort of hauling or industrial competition back in the day... and not really billed as a "one time only" thing, but I'll be the first to admit that I could be completely off on that.

You seem to forget that during the T20 scandal, there was dev collusion. There's a reason I.A. exists. Blink could be on the straight and narrow, but it sets a dangerous precedent, that CCP can just give specific people ships that have no guarantee that they won't go to alts. Nevermind ships that are gone entirely.

You would think anyone looking at it for 2 seconds would realize how terrible idea it is to begin with but nope...

So let me get this straight CCP wants to ruin the history of EVE, one of the main driving forced behind why I love this game for some publicity?

Isn't it kind of ironic that CCP create this collectors edition for a decades worth of history which they give to SOMAR to give away at the same time they re-introduce pieces of history spitting on that decade of history.

CCP you are bad and you should feel bad, didn't want that respect for you anyway.

And CCP, you understand that if SOMER does take the ships and run, or gives them to alts or players who pay bribes, you have an absolute PR nightmare on your hands. Players raging, people who spent tons of isk quitting and complaining about CCP for years on forums, news articles about how "CCP cheated their players".

Aren't their internal policies in place to review public relations risk? This should be ringing a few bells...

IMO, these ships should be given out via a CCP run event like the old days. It's more fun than a lottery anyways.

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It's entirely irrelevant what they've done in the past. Bad Bobby hadn't scammed anyone before he walked away with several hundred billion isk from his titan BPO scam.

But it's equally irrelevant whether they scam or not. CCP is directly giving a player corporation in the PVP sandbox a massive advantage.

• Increased exposure will drive more customers to their income stream.


• The prizes given by CCP aren't costing Somer anything so they can give them away without cutting into their profits.


• X amount of those customers who sign up because of this will stay, increasing Somer's long-term revenue.

The reason this was a terrible idea is not that Somer might scam (in fact it would be the best outcome if they did) but that CCP is giving a direct advantage to a player corporation because they like them. Not because of a competition open to all with clear rules involved but out of direct favouritism.

I like Somer, I can't fault them for what they're doing here, or the ludicrous amounts of ISK they make (though there isn't as much transparency as would appear), this is solely on CCP.

Add in that Somer is purely a gambling site that has driven players to spend rl money on isk in order to fund their gambling addiction and it's patently obvious that instead CCP should have given these items to Goonswarm, the moral, sensible choice for receiving CCP bias.

Believed it would never happens. But liked an Andski-post.