EVE General Discussion

It's all good though.....

Right now CCP will be panicking and rushing through the code to give us all one or two of these ships so they can say they listened and they are fair.

Meanwhile.......

Completely missing the point as in doing that they crash the market for the ships, making them relatively worthless and the 1% who ghost trained hundreds of accounts have already cashed in at the top of the market and got richer.


Very very well trolled CCP!

BRB buying stock in popcorn manufacturers.

I do not want to have to own 100 free accounts, but you are forcing us down this path.

For a game that promotes scamming, it sure seems like the people running this place get scammed by the playerbase regularly.

I can only assume that crashing the price of these ships was the intention of linking it to accounts, but Lordy, what a tone-deaf thing to do. It looks terrible to reward one person who sat in a seat at FanFest with 2 free ships, and the person next to him with 50 because he was a multi-boxer or SP farmer or whatever. Maybe if it was tied to Omega status you could try to make a case (although you would still look greedy for doing so), but as it is you have various FanFest attendees being awarded with a number of ships with a variance of one or two magnitudes, based on nothing but how many accounts they have set up which looks horribly unfair.

They should have just given 10 or 20 ships to each person if they wanted to keep the cost down initially. This unequal distribution appears unfair, actually is unfair, and serves no discernible purpose to me. Do they really want us to each make a hundred-plus empty accounts to maximize the amount of future give-aways we receive?

I can't believe no-one on the development team saw the trouble this decision was going to lead to. With human nature what is it, the uproar was entirely predictable and avoidable. They somehow managed to take a kind gesture that should have bought them goodwill and turned into another PR headache.

People will get over this minor fracas faster than some of your other recent missteps CCP, but seriously, you guys need to up your game and stop making these mistakes. You have burnt a lot of goodwill in recent years and you can't afford to waste any more with fumbles like this one.

Edit: You know, while I think we all appreciate little gifts like this from time-to-time as long as they are distributed fairly, this brouhaha underscores why CCP really should take a hands-off approach to messing with the economics of the sandbox. SKINs and vanity items are one thing, but when items with real utility and value are being spawned into the universe, CCP should be very careful that there is no appearance they are doing this unfairly. Is this the same type of dev meddling that led to the creation of the CSM in the first place?

CSM, care to comment on these recent events?

CCP learns from the player base, the player base does not learn from CCP. Git gud scrubs!

They're not mutually exclusive. This was intentional because incompetence.

For anyone who isn't up to speed, here's this week in review:

First their QA guy (responsible for getting things right) botches a script and halts skill training for paid subscribers instead of ghost training alphas.

Then they gave a free pass to everyone who exploited ghost training for billions of sp for sale and self-injection (thread locked without a response).

Then they reward those exploiters with hundreds of Concord ships, worth trillions of isk collectively.

Then CCP Falcon says with a snide smirk that it's not a mistake, but intentional. That spits directly in the face of nearly every EVE philosophy.

Then, they launch an event that floods the game with a large number of high value items, crashing all respective markets.

EVE's wealth distribution was already consolidated into just a few hands, but now that curve will be even sharper. I guess CCP wanted to see how closely they could imitate the US economy.

If we equate the price of PLEX to a living wage, then the similarities are even more relevant, as the average player's buying power just went straight down the shitter. As a result, fewer players will be able to afford PLEX, and large numbers of paid players are reporting decisions to unsubscribe - commonly citing that continuing would be a waste of time. And that's a reasonable sentiment, as this series of trainwrecks has just crashed the value of ISK, time, and even character development.

I'm not just saying this to be dramatic, I'm honestly a bit stunned and feel as if I've just witnessed a murder, and EVE was the victim.

I've seen some screw-ups, but this is historical - even legendary. Great job CCP.

Great injustice of our times. \o/

They did WHAT? LOL
Sorry, but........
Why not gift them to everyone.....
*Still laughts like crazy!*

Seriously. CCP. WTF?

My personal understanding is that these ships were never intended to be "rare." I believe it was during the EvE Vegas closing ceremonies CCP said so. Check the 16:25 mark.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=15m3s&v=FARkDDbSRFs

2 dank ticks lost due to servers crashing....

Can we all be refunded at 260mil/tick for the lost ticks ccp?