EVE General Discussion

I'm not sure why CCP seems surprised over the outrage and whining that has resulted from their loot fleets. Seems the inevitable outcome to me. Any person that doesn't feel they have the skillpoints, the PvP skills, the luck of the draw (on looting ships fast enough) or the social network to form an effective enough fleet is going to scream bloody murder. They're going to feel screwed out of the prizes.

I'm not participating at all in the loot fleet battles. But I'm not crying about them either. To the people that participate go the spoils. I'm not participating because I figure I'll end up losing far more than gaining. Plus, if I did participate and didn't get any loot, I'd feel peeved about the events (just like the people who are peeved but not participating.) So, I'm not participating, I'm not feeling annoyed. It's as easy as that.

Watching from the sidelines, reading all the rage and tears on the forums, it seems to me that CCP is a tad surprised at the vehemence of the responses, as if they didn't quite anticipate the outrage. That's really quite amusing. Can they really be that naïve?

If CCP wanted to limit the outrage, create a fairer system where everyone had a chance at loot, they would have run a lottery. "Hey, everyone, we're giving away 75 PLEX. We'll randomly raffle them off to any non-trial account created and paid for before December 07 2011." Boom! Who the heck can b*tch and moan about that? (I'm sure a couple people would find a way "This favours people with multiple accounts! Waugh!", but far fewer whiners overall.)

When you want to limit whining, think socialism. (In their real lives, Americans treat socialism like it's a plague rat, but they ****ing love it in their MMOs.)

-- from The CCP Loot Fleets - Naïve? (yes, a link to my blog; deal with it jive turkeys!)

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Well that killed more than one theory I had.

Steps to this post:
1. Reading OPs post
2. Saw familiar face of Poetic
3. Immediately stopped reading
4. Checked for link
5. Made this post

CCP flew a fleet that was better than you will ever fly in. With tactics superior than Brick Squad have even thought about.

Enjoy your land of decrepid fairytales and broken rainbows.

It's their market

The amount of loot that dropped from the CCP fleet would have a negligible effect on the market. It's peanuts compared to the amount of stuff that moves on a daily basis.

Yep, that pretty much says it all.

This is why you should refrain from commenting. You have no frame of reference for the words "because it's fun". Your motivations are purely driven by imaginary profit.

The only thing wrong with this event are the forum trolls that have finally squirmed their way into being anything other than laughed at as they were in the past.

Anyone with a ready insult to direct at CCP, or a childlike fixation with fake money, is given some modicum of attention now.

The EVE community used to be smarter than that.

I think what they are doing is fine. I've got no problem with it.

All I'm saying, if CCP doesn't want to get screamed at when they are actually trying to have some fun with their customers, they might try giving out the good loot via a lottery ... and have their fleet fun in ships with T1 and T2 modules.

I don't care either way ... unless they do hold a lottery and I win something ... then "F*** yeah!"

(I think it's great that CCP interacts with their customers in this way. I'm just a little sad that it has to bite them in the ass all the same. I wish people didn't have to be such dicks.)

:)

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