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CCP directly and secretly gifted SOMER Blink 30 Ishukone Scorpions (~450 billion ISK value)

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Boom Boom Longtime
EVE Corporation 6908469858
Heroes and Villains.
#1461 - 2013-10-08 14:18:30 UTC
A wee birdie suggested the other day that the letters "CCP" are an abbreviation for "Contentious Company Principles".

Not sure if true or whether to believe.

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Kaivar Lancer
Doomheim
#1462 - 2013-10-08 14:27:22 UTC
The only way out for CCP is for them to pump out Ishukone Scorpions until their market value plumments to something relatively trivial like 500m isk. And do it plenty fast.
Money Makin Mitch
Paid in Full
#1463 - 2013-10-08 14:38:24 UTC
Kaivar Lancer wrote:
The only way out for CCP is for them to pump out Ishukone Scorpions until their market value plumments to something relatively trivial like 500m isk. And do it plenty fast.

or they could just take back the 30 they magic'ed, along with any profits from their sale, apologize to the playerbase, and publically censure ccp navigator. but that would require integrity Roll
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1464 - 2013-10-08 14:40:19 UTC
Money Makin Mitch wrote:
Kaivar Lancer wrote:
The only way out for CCP is for them to pump out Ishukone Scorpions until their market value plumments to something relatively trivial like 500m isk. And do it plenty fast.

or they could just take back the 30 they magic'ed, along with any profits from their sale, apologize to the playerbase, and publically censure ccp navigator. but that would require integrity Roll

this would be plain stupid: some whiners will decide their whine actually matters

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Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#1465 - 2013-10-08 14:42:47 UTC
March rabbit wrote:
Money Makin Mitch wrote:
Kaivar Lancer wrote:
The only way out for CCP is for them to pump out Ishukone Scorpions until their market value plumments to something relatively trivial like 500m isk. And do it plenty fast.

or they could just take back the 30 they magic'ed, along with any profits from their sale, apologize to the playerbase, and publically censure ccp navigator. but that would require integrity Roll

this would be plain stupid: some whiners will decide their whine actually matters


What the honest %^&* is going on here? I just clicked like on a March Rabbit post.

YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID CCP, NEXT THING YOU KNOW WE'LL BE DIVIDING BY ZERO, THEN WERE ALL SCREWED!


Lol
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#1466 - 2013-10-08 14:59:03 UTC
Obviously the next set of anniversary collectors giveaway will include one "Refined Ishkone Watch Scorpion" special edition item

It uses the tritanium icon.


Because haha, look at you players. You're stupid kids

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CCP Eterne
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1467 - 2013-10-08 15:06:14 UTC
I just deleted several pages from the end of this thread due to two individuals bickering back and forth and I now see that it extends even further back with even semi-rational discussion of this issue having long since vanished. I ask that players use one of the following threads to continue discussion of the issue and to please keep such discussions civil:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=281879&find=unread
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=281298&find=unread

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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#1468 - 2013-10-08 15:18:43 UTC
tl:dr; version...

CCP promoting fan sites or community members without directly giving them in-game assets == cool
Doing same with in-game assets <>= cool

Long version....

There is no amount of criteria CCP could develop that would make the community happy re: handing out of in-game assets, because people will always ***** they didn't get a piece of the pie, or a shot at getting some pie...

Note I said 'handing out', instead of 'winning' -- as I am sure we all can agree winning special assets through mechanisms like tournaments is cool, because everyone theoretically have an equal shot at getting them, by joining an alliance that fields tourney teams, taking part, etc.

CCP has a decision to make re: the purity of the free-market system game assets are built and exchanged under. Ultimately if you have Tzars giving out freebies to politically-connected people like in pre-collapse Russia (or Obama's new Amerika), you are going down a slippery slope that can lead to customer perception problems like what has arisen here.

In short, CCP can promote community builders and members that contribute above-and-beyond to the health and growth of EvE online without handing out actual in-game assets. They can be spotlighted on the main EvE site, given tickets to EvE community events, etc etc -- all that normal marketing stuff marketting people do, without messing with in-game assets. So why go there?

A moratorium on handing out of any in-game assets should be put in place, and rewards or support to EvE community builders done purely as a marketing budget exercise devoid of actual in-game assets.

Win/Win. Marketing separated from Market. No more drama. Done.

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