In-Game Events and Gatherings

Makes sense. Thanks for that quick response. I see you like to clarify anything before people make it into a conspiracy theory, lol.

Well, I'll see you on blink =)

P.S. I'd love to win one of those as well ;)

Thanks for the kind words!

If you ever deposit too much, forget to claim a contract, or claim the wrong prize selection (ISK instead of ship, etc) please do contact our support-- we have excellent records and can always reverse a claim as long as the money hasn't been spent!

Hi there, set up a new account yesterday and did a few blinks, came back today tried to log in but I get this message 'Error: this character's account is currently disabled and its password may not be reset.'

I have no idea why, is there anyway to get my account re enabled?

Been playing for about a year, won some, lost some but always fun.

Very professional site, payouts are always fast and lots of awesome prices to be won.

When I went to claim my Blink prize, I get the following message:

"Not enough ISK deposited. To open a gift this celebration, you must deposit another 321M."

Help?

Hey Boys and Girls - let's have some fun with some math!

Let;s see Blink gives FREE gifts to their CUSTOMERS at each benchmark celebration. They are having one now and they had one two weeks ago.

Right now they have 70,794 members, some of them have just joined and have not reached the threshold of being real CUSTOMERS, yet.

I just looked at the last 15 FREE gifts Blink gave to their CUSTOMERS! The smallest gift is 5 million ISK, but some get a LOT more. In fact, one of these 15 CUSTOMERS received a free PHANTASM that is selling in Jita right now for 156 million! And it was FREE! But maybe there is not one of those in every 15 gifts. Remember, Simple is the way we want to go so let's just say that each and every one gets a FREE 5 million ISK GIFT at the beginning of each benchmark celebration.

So what do you think Eve players would do if they could sign up and get a FREE 5 million ISK at each selebration without becoming a real CUSTOMER?

Oh, you are all so smart! Yes! everyone would sign up and get lots of FREE ISK! Some may deposit a little and some may deposit a lot, but Blink had to set a number for a minimum deposit - Which is the person's ISK credit and could be withdrawn as they win prizes.

Let's put some numbers with that.

Right now, Blink has 70796 members, so let's say only 70 thousand are actually CUSTOMERS and every one of them got the lowest amount of only 5 million ISK. How much would that be for ONE celebration? Jimmy, that laptop your parents gave you sure came in handy! Yes, that would be 350,000,000,000. Can anyone tell me how much that is with all those confusing zeroes?

That's Right Linda, 350 Billion in FREE Gifts for each celebration - But we really know the actual number is much higher.

One last calculation - Let's say that Blink only has 12 celebrations a year because it is a little unusual for them to do two celebrations so close together as these two. These two are so close together because Blink is growing so fast. They have a celebration when the CUSTOMERS have won another 50 trillion in prizes Yes - that is TRILLION - with a Capital T!

So far this year they have had six celebrations and we are a month and a half away from being halfway through this year. Well, as soon as one week long celebration runs into the next week long celebration, then Blink will have to raise the amount the CUSTOMERS have won before they have another celebration. Only the People at Blink know how much they will raise it . The new amount of prizes won by CUSTOMERS may go to 75 TRILLION between Celebrations or even 100 TRILLION. We will just have to wait and see.

But REMEMBER - SIMPLE, we want to keep it simple. So let's use just 12 celebrations per year for now.... So,

12 x 350,000,000,000 = Well, right away, I can tell you... its a lot!

Great ANSWER, Fuzzy! 4,200,000,000,000 Congress may not think it is not very much, but 4 decimal point 2 TRILLION seems like a lot to me.

Oh wait a minute, I can't even count! Oh don't back up, when I stomp my foot, I was not mad with you, I was mad with ME! We were talking about all those other Eve Players signing up for blink just to collect the FREE celebration prizes without ever becoming full fledged CUSTOMERS. So how many Eve players are there? Well, this is only something CCP (maybe) knows, because so many players have more than several accounts and at Blink, each human can only have one Blink account.

Oh, I know you are all excited about that, but settle down and let's guess how many humans really play Eve - Remember - keep it SIMPLE or you could say we are using the KISS principle - Keep It SIMPLE STUPID! Let's say only 200 hundred thousand even bother to sign up for FREE ISK from Blink. Who can tell us how much that would cost Blink in FREE ISK every celebration?

That's RIGHT, QUEENIE! You are going to be the first pup picked out of this litter!

200,000 times one FREE gift of 5 Million per celebration would equal an even 1 trillion worth of FREE gifts Blink would have to pay for at each celebration and if they have 12 celebrations a year, that is a smooth 12 TRILLION ISK in FREE gifts that are really given away at the door. Then there are billions more in Mini-Bbnks which are really FREE to play as they are paid for with tokens which CUSTOMERS get for FREE for just playing. And the Big Bonk often exceeds the amount it brings in. They have a feature called the 2X Bonus, so at random, players who win a frigate or even a dreadnought have a chance of receiving two of them instead of just the one they bought a ticket for. Then there are the Promos, and I've already seen Rorquals be won for a single FREE token - remember in the Promos, each player gets only one ticket for one FREE token. Then they have the Blink Blast at the end where they draw one ticket from a list of each CUSTOMER who has played every Mini-Bonk for a FREE token and bought at least one Bonk ticket for only a half of a million ISK - Well, each of these CUSTOMERS gets one chance per CUSTOMER to win 50 BILLION ISK and Blink draws FIVE WINNERS so that totals 250 BILLION.

This Celebration is not even a day old and CUSTOMERS have already won over 5 TRILLION in prizes.

Now I have to mention this. I held off bringing this up as long as I could because it is so sad. Every Celebration, some people put on their tin foil hats and start declaring Blink to be a scam and they always say they have proof that will soon be revealed - but no proof has ever been revealed. Blink is a Casino, so that means GAMBLING! People lose and instead of blaming themselves, they blame Blink. So Sad.

Likewise, prompted to deposit more. I'm not really complaining about a lack of free stuff, but I just find it odd that I never got prompted before.

Hiya!

We had an issue where certain people were registering accounts, then not using the service. They were returning each celebration with their hand out, expecting a charity. Some of them, sometimes but not usually, might deposit another 2-5m after they claimed their 5-250m free gift. Most didn't.

We wanted gifts to be rewards to people who use our service.

So we set a requirement that folks have deposited at least 50m ISK for each gift they've opened.

The gifts were never meant to be a charity open to anyone who could put their hand out. They were meant to be a reward to people who actually use the service.

And, bottom line - if someone requires they be given 5-250m for every 2-5m deposit they occasionally make every 3-5 months, we're okay with them not using our service anymore. The people who actually use the service to gamble, rather than as a charity, seem to approve of the change since it allows us to spend more on promos for the active players.

Sure, I getcha :)

We tried a few phrasings on the gift pages in the first few hours, actually, to try and convey the "You must have, in the lifetime of your account, deposited 50m isk per gift you've previously opened to keep opening gifts." - but this change affects such a tiny tiny tiny subset of Blinkers, the various wordings wound up just confusing the other players as to what it was talking about. We tried to refine the message via the error that that subset would see instead.

I apologize that the help channel wasn't more informative - we do our best to staff it 24/7, but there's only so much surity that can be managed in that regard before "Video game" becomes "second job" :p We're working to expand staff even more to help with that, though :)

Yep! GTC bonus credits count as deposited ISK for this and achievements both :)