EVE General Discussion

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the effort they put into the whole Yule Lads thing and I realise that anything CCP injects into the game is going to cause ripples one way or another but really, giving away T2 modules just is a "no go" kind of thing. T1 modules can also be npc drops and thus those are less of an issue but T2 items are all player produced and while they're "just" T2 data and relic analysers it does affect supply and demand for a player created product, effectively fcking over anyone producing or trading these (and no, I'm not one of them).

CCP shouldn't interfere with the market on specific items (be they Ishuk Scorpions, Magnates, T2 modules or whatever other silly thing they may come up with) like that, one would have thought they'd have learned that by now. Ideally they'd only give away stuff that's without any sort of use and doesn't interfere with any existing product but realistically that'll be quite difficult and costly to come up with something new every time, but they should at least realise what NOT to do.

Basically this. A load of T1/T2 junk is basically nothing. 30 Ishukone Scorpions are something totally different, OP.

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone complain about this before. Having to compete with hundreds of thousands of CCP spawned items can't be good for their sales. The effect per individual player might be small, but that's still a huge number of sales they're not going to make.

All I wanted was a pink thong.

Maybe next year.

ccp should give out more fun stuff rather than junk you wouldn't even loot from a wreck.

snowballs are fun, fedo was great, neural remaps were awesome when ccp gave them away (or gave you the option for a carepackage of USEFUL stuff) etc.

previous year's gifts and giveaways have all been better than the yule lads junk.

I'm having a hard time mustering the care for this.

If they were giving away tens of thousands of T2 BPO's then I might give a ****.

Of course I cared to post. Point was that I don't care to go on a crusade of outrage at CCP over giving out small-time T2 items for Christmas. If they were giving out something that had a greater profit margin I might.

no, i didn't. if you're dumb enough to think that's even remotely what I implied then I worry for you.

they might be meant as a joke but that's kinda the point, they're only a joke in the "this is a waste of ******* time" rather than "oh, that's cool". the only one that i have redeemed and not thought "why did i bother/what was i expecting?" was fedo. even then, i'd rather have had 1 remap than all of the junk we've been given so far.

I found the whole event to be enjoyable. I have a variety of items, that while I have little use for most... I can use for other things. I was sitting around wondering what to do with some of my loyalty points when suddenly I got some T1 launchers and got an idea to use them to convert to faction modules, which gleaned me a nice profit. I was in low sec doing my thing when I had an idea to transport some goods to highsec to make some profit and lo-behold.... Yule Lads gave me a cargo extender II. While I have no use for the snowball launcher, plenty of people in my corporation did for an in house event so I repackaged that gift and bam, brownie points.

Really, all of this has been a boon and there has been no downfall. It is all optional, you do not even get this stuff automatically. While there can always be "Better" options when it comes to gifts (and there are entirely too many threads on this subject) the fact of the matter is that you get gifts at all should be important.