EVE General Discussion

CCP,

Come on guys. There are real issues here.

Please, give the community an answer concerning the Somer issues, please.

Still waiting.

CCP,

Please respond to these Somer issues, please.

Guys and gals now come on give CCP a break.

Its hard for them to make a post with 3 words in it.

"we fooked up"

What you have to remember is that somer is player driven and is a huge income earner for EvE.

People spend money on plex then use the isk in somer then buy more plex and put more money into some. If chars actually didnt play somer they wouldnt be there.

The amount of money ccp has generated in some must be hundreds of thousands of pounds. So they will keep this going as long as they can.

End of the day ccp could have shut them down along time ago but wont. They also didnt have to give them the free stuff.

As an executive manager at my company, we are faced with a decision each quarter on whether or not to issue bonuses to our staff members. Some things that are taken into consideration:

- Is it financially viable for the enterprise to issue bonuses
- How much of a bonus pool exists if so?
- What are the criteria for staff to receive bonuses?
- Are bonuses discretionary (meaning subjective) or metrics based (objective, same for all) or a combination?

Employees will like it, or not like it, but we do the best we can to be fair and reward those who go far and beyond over what is expected of them and hope that bonuses inspire folks to reach for the stars during the next quarter if they want a larger share.

Now, translate that concept to here. CCP sees tremendous value in the SOMER Blink initiative and rewards it with a bunch of rare issue Scorpions. The folks at SOMER Blink don't need the isk, so to them it's a gesture alone. To CCP it's a tool at their disposal to reward those who go, in their eyes, above and beyond.

So rather than bark at CCP about recognizing what it sees as key contributors, spend your time developing your own initiative and become the next SOMER Blink and you will earn an Ishukone Scorpion too.

In terms of real world $ drawn from the BLINK initiative, it's just like law enforcement. Officers who pull someone over for speeding can choose to give a warning, a ticket, or not pull someone over at all. Discretion. CCP has the same discretion. I believe the EULA (the spirit of it) is to ensure that someone can't distort the game with a real world gain (such as ebay isk sellers). BLINK does not do that, it's strictly wealth transfer of already existing assets as opposed to spawning new assets. It helps the community like any good lottery does. So do books about how better to play the game.

But isk on ebay deflates the economy and the EULA comes into play.

So to round this out, Somer Blink was rewarded for excellence. Good for them. I hope CCP rewards excellence in the future. It is painful to me that CCP is even considering not doing so because others feel entitled to the same rewards, or worse, that the environment should be homogenous and no one should be rewarded for doing great things.

CCP, don't cave to that pressure. Rewards are good and justified in moderation.

-A

Just my 2c.
i think many people didn't care about the somer stuff and many somer players are sad their bonuses went.
idc as i don't buy plex with cash.
(i have got prizes from a Somer event)

i do think James 315 and the lead members of minerbumping deserve rewards for the life they brought to high sec.
i don't mine or suicide gank.

don't give stuff to null sec alliances.
i am in a null sec alliance.

I honestly don't care if somer is a scam or if they are legit. they add to the eve experiance. reward them as u will. same with minerbumping, dotlan, iph, skunkworks etc etc.
The detractors are everywhere just be as open as u can and a impartial as you can.

still waiting for a CCP reply.

any reply, even a silly one, is better than this silence.

There is no RMT in offering a dollar discount on GTC purchases. They are not converting any isk into cash then. They are however, potentially making more money by offering the GTC's at a discount. And ultimately, it is Markee Dragon offering the discount, not Somer, although Somer may be contributing part of their "cut" toward it.

The only question is if CCP mandates a certain retail price for the GTC's in their reseller agreement. If they do, then Markee Dragon would be in violation of this agreement.

This, along with the lack of summer summit minutes for CSM 8, is pretty damn inexcusable.

But what has SOMER done to enhance the game play for people and give back to the community. Take a look at EVE UNI these people bust them selves teaching newbies how to play the game. They don't take their isk and their goal is to give players experience before they move on into the galaxy. SOMER on the other hand is a FOR profit organisation that the sole purpose is to print isk for the owners. It is not a matter of popularity it is a matter of the worth of the item given and who it was given too, and the manner in which it was given. So don't try pull that trick on us saying that they give items to events and support give aways, Chribba does this as well as countless others. I'm giving you my money to play this game and put food on your tables I don't see my IWS or free Titan