EVE General Discussion

Now the apologists and fanbois will run in screaming at you that you should have read every dev blog with a hidden blurb about gifts in and unrelated blog about something else, and paid attention to all the spam on log in screens. (which studies had shown very few people pay attention to things spammed ever day.) And noticed it on the news side bar which is usually filled with RP baloney not worth the time for most. And lets not forget they admit the majority of players dont use the forums at all. Twitter and FB? Lets hope the message didnt get bumped by other posts on those right?

But the fact remains they cant get around the fact that they did not EVE mail everyone. The most direct and sure way to get the message out to the players. While they didnt have problems doing so for the NEX store. This glaring point cannot be ignored.

How does this work again? I went to Redeem Items and there was nothing there... no remap no stuff... nada...

or, as stated by others earlier, the login screen message was obscured by a client update notification. As it would only be displayed once, if you didn't read it before clicking OK to the update, as many wouldn't have done, you'd not see it again.

How come the 'Holiday' gifts aren't available on Christmas Eve? Why has it already been cancelled? Me and my bro have 4 accounts between us and we've totally missed out. Doesn't make much sense. :(

You mean that tiny easily missed box? That would be a horrible place to inform anyone of anything important.


CCP could have done a thousand things different with this and all half assed that would have been better then what they actually did.

Heck even a POP up that you had to read and scroll before you could close it out would have been better then what they did do.

Dude your seriously trying to hard. Are you a CCP alt? Thats all i can think at this point.

Here I am, 3 weeks out of the game due to taking care of a sick family member out of town. Had heard a few references to the holiday gift while reading through the forums during my absence. Had even been keeping tabs on my ingame mail through evegate to keep in touch with corp members.

I log in today to find that I apparently completely missed the opportunity to get a holiday gift. And I only discover this after going through the effort of researching it on the forums to try and figure out how to pick an item.

Pretty lame that you didn't do anything to inform me that there was some sort of hoop to jump through this year. Evemail is the first and primary means of communication in the game and you chose not to use it? You work in mysterious ways CCP... Mysterious, as in WTF?

You didn't even think to have a default gift for those who didn't make a choice? Double fail.

Wise word's.




My experience of this is:

Indeed, Sooooo many patch's recently that unless you logged in hourly it was easy to miss whatever I missed as well. All I saw was the one about claim your gift from the 22nd. From in my books means after and including the aforementioned period of measurement that is referenced after the from; Which is correct beyond that aspect that it in no way detailed how to pick such gift of choice and also was completely lacking in any reference to some popup that apparently was there but like most was applying a automatic client update and had NFI it was ever there in the first place. Given how the two implants were handed out it does seem a bit of utter SNAFU on CCP's part and could of been handeled alot better, especialy given HOW many updates recently. CCP in competition with Valves TeamFortress2 to see how many updates they can push in a week as I think they may actualy be winning currently.

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But hey if you disagree with this then hey, that's your problem, just don't involve me in your problems as I have my own so meh :p.

Perhaps it's best then if you try not to think.

Don't mistake maturity with having an ulterior motive.

What is hard to take seriously are people getting this worked up over an imaginary extra gift that they had to go to fairly unbelievable lengths NOT to be aware of.

One final note, to the people saying all they needed to do was send out an EVE mail in game.

You realize that if they had the only difference would be that we would be seeing this addition to the complaints in this thread:

"I get far to many emails in game to read all of them, in fact I have blink turned off on my neo com so that I won't be bothered. Not only that, but I haven't logged on in the last month, so how could I possibly have received an EVE mail about it? What a stupid notification system, CCP is fail."

You know it's true.