EVE General Discussion

Waiting for answers

It's been a month.

Bump for answer.

Why is this getting the attention, CCP have been screwing over collectors for years. All those ships that had collectors value as they were supposedly 'one offs' that than get released in gift bundles or plex offers in the future, ruining any rarity.

So why don't you just quit? Sounds to me that is exactly what you want to do so you can forget this horrific time of five years and counting where you have invested time and money into EVE. Oh, and the humiliation that you must live with..

Contract me your stuff.

Ok so this issue with the Nex shirt will be resolved in the next release. Summer in CCP is when a lot of staff take vacation so finding the right people to finalize this issue takes more time than normal. To make this clear and unambiguous, this post is likely to be long.

History of the Nex shirt

So we had a special PLEX bundle in October 2011 which offered an ‘Ishukone shirt’ as part of the package. Since disclosing how many of these bundles we sell is not company policy, I will simply say it was ‘several hundred players’ who took up this offer. At this stage I will also address that a second offer was released with the Russian Collector’s edition which offered a special jacket. These two cases are different and will be addressed separately later on.

Inferno 1.1

With the Inferno 1.1 release we added multiple new items to the Nex store and the ‘Ishukone shirt’ was added in error. Once again, ‘several hundred players’ bought the shirt which was meant to be an exclusive item. Once it came to our attention that the ‘Ishukone shirt’ was added by accident, we disabled the sale of this item while we decided what to do.

Replacement item

Team Avatar, the team responsible for all Nex store items, decided to create a new item called the ‘Field Marshall Coat’ (please note that this is a brand new item and not currently listed in the Nex store) and would award this to the pilots who should have had the original exclusive ‘Ishukone shirt’. Deciding who should get the shirt was a difficult task as not all shirts remained with the original owner. It was decided that the ‘Field Marshall Coat’ would be awarded as follows:

If I was a player who took up the PLEX offer, or multiple instances of the PLEX offer, and retained the original ‘Ishukone shirt’, I will automatically receive the new ‘Field Marshall Coat’ on all accounts that purchased it or will receive multiple coats if purchased over multiple accounts. Therefore, if I bought 3 x PLEX offer I will receive three ‘Field Marshall Coats’

If I was a player who took up the PLEX offer and sold the ‘Ishukone shirt’ to Player B, Player B will receive the new ‘Field Marshall Coat’

If I was Player B who sold the shirt on again to Player c, Player C will receive the new ‘Field Marshall Coat’

And so on until the shirt is with the player who deserves to own it. The basis of this decision is that, if you sold your ‘Ishukone shirt’, then you cashed out and the player buying it has invested in that exclusivity instead.

Deployment of replacement item

The new ‘Field Marshall Coat’ has had a new item description added from the content team and requires a deployment cycle before it can be issued. The next deployment cycle is Wednesday, August 8 for Inferno 1.2 and the coat will be assigned to the redeeming system of the pilots in question. If you feel you should have got a coat and one was not assigned, you will need to submit a petition for a Game Master to investigate. Once this deployment is complete, we will sell the ‘Ishukone shirt’ in the store as normal. It will cease to be an exclusive item.

Russian Collector’s Edition

There will be no change to the Russian Collector’s Edition jacket as there are currently in excess of 3,000 box copies in circulation. This item was a giveaway with that box and many more will come in to circulation as players pick up that box set. The number of additional jackets sold before we removed them from the Nex store was exceptionally low and there is no logical or easy way to make this item more exclusive. It simply will have more jackets added over time and that is by design.


I sincerely hope that this clears up the matter. Many members of Team Avatar are still on vacation so if there are any questions it may take some time until they get answered

Also, is there going to be controls in place so that this kind of issues does not repeat again? Controls that prevent other promotional items that were marked as "limited/one-time-offer/limited edition" from being reissued?

Yes, that has already taken place.

Thank you very much CCP Navigator, this is a more than sufficient fix. :)

As asked above, any word on whether or not the Ishokune shirt will or will not be added back to the NeX?

this is more like buying the collators edition of a game to get the sweet bioshock 1 soundtrack on vinyl. Just to have the same copy resold for 5$, when the advertisement said it was a one time release.

You would be able to sue over that, no joke. and imo it's justifiable. to anyone thinking ccp is stupid for taking this seriously, then you don't understand collectors. Paying to get something exclusive one time release, that's part of why people will buy it. if it's then not a one time release, that is a chrime, literately false advertising.