EVE General Discussion

This. This so hard that I want to punch the sun and kickbox Chuck Norris.

There's a great menu in the game for redeeming gifts and the like in game and it's worked just fine the entire time it's been there.

Then suddenly the rules are changed and we get told we had to do it another way this time and by the time the mistake has comes to light it's too late to correct.

I think I'm probably more annoyed now than when I lost my faction gear fitted Thanatos + pod. This sucks so very badly.

People missing out is one thing but there should not be this many people feeling uninformed.

Yes, lots of people knew about it and successfully claimed it but there are too many people, it seems, who were screwed out of being informed.

My banner didn't show up because of a ''New client Build is available'' menu that cannot be manipulated. When OK'ing that it restarts the client and, due to whatever circumstances i was put in, was never shown to me again.

My E-mail address never got an E-mail from EVE or CCP in general explaining that this was a thing. Yes i have checked my spam and trash folders. The only stuff in there is in regards to a Petition I filed a short while ago about some technical issues.

As I said before, the only reason I am irritated is because I missed out on my warning due to a client update, my E-mail wasn't contacted for whatever reason AND they changed the way the gifts are handed out without an announcement.

Had there been a post a month ago saying Redeemable items would be selected in a new way come Christmas, i'd suck it up as a miss. No amount of successful redemptions by people can change the fact that lots of us were gimped out of our warnings and heads-ups.

I don't necessarily even want a chance at the gifts, I can happily go without, I'm just irritated that this seems to be have been handle clunkily and rather hush-hush. I can handle that the gifts were given out differently, i just would loved to have known they would be WELL in advance of the actual deal.

Either way, your comment ''take some responsibility'' kinda rings hollow. It's a christmas gift in a videogame of all things. It's not about responsibility, it's about wishing I had been able to get a gift from CCP, whom I do love, without feeling like I was uninformed of it or limited for time.

It's like getting to be 12 years old and learning that your parents never told you about Christmas, they just got your sibling gifts and cards so you 'should have known'.

Eve Online Newsletter vol.70 was sent out on 12/17/11 at 2200 GMT. Included in the first paragraph: "The holiday gift selection ends December 21st."

the bonus remap is due to a change in the remap system, it is NOT YOUR GIFT!
so don't think you got something, you got what everyone got by default (and what every new account will get in the future)

You are right indeed Morganta:)
(Just catching up on the news)
I guess I missed the newsletter,
So I missed on "the gift"
I'm almost sorry for that....

so, how long will the aurum tokens sit in the redeeming box? because a couple hours after i accepted the aurum as my gift choice, my computer DIED, and for the last few days ahve had no way to fix it... will the aurum tokens still be in their later this month (possible early january?) because i dont think my computer will be fixed anytime soon (and the area i live in, my computer was the only real eve-capable computer for 100 miles, as in, no other computer HAS a hard drive all business computers using cloud-based servers that have restrictions to the types of files you can save to them, so no EvE)

Problem SOLVED!

Seems its a text thing.. they multiply so when you accept the offer they doub up to the amount they are supposed to be at!

Thank you very much! I really liked the new Aurum token. Just hope there will be more items to spend them on in the near future. :)

PS Dont mind the whining of some people. There was more than enough time to choose an item and isnt it odd that those people forgot about it the past few weeks and just on the 22. realize they are too late? What a coincidence! :D

Nothing odd about it, I and many others with actual RL's only saw the news that was posted WHEN we logged in, it was only published today.

People didn't forget. Some of us just weren't aware to begin with. I still never got an E-mail but then again I don't get the EVE Newsletter at all so maybe that's why.

My only issue here, at the end of the day, is that it doesn't matter if other players feel we have a right to complain or not. Fact is, people are complaining. Had the gifts just been made redeemable, as they always have been, then literally NONE of these issues would be present. There would be no newsletter missing, banner-defying client updates and no account management misses. It could have just gone through as the gifts always have done and CCP would be seeing none of these complaints, no matter how minor they may be.

THAT'S why i'm irritated. Change for the sake of change and it's left some people feeling bitter. And not even in the usual EVE-style ''haha, we dicked you!'' kinda way but in more of a general ''We literally had NO clue we were missing out to even choose to ignore it if we wanted to'' kinda way.