In-Game Events and Gatherings

I have nothing bad to say about Somer Blink. However, this is ****ing terrible precedent for CCP, regardless of claims that favoratism is out the door. Either do the lotto through a CCP-devised scheme or don't do it at all.

Please talk to CCP tell them that you do not want Gold Magnates or GV's as handing out such ships will ruin the history/lore/legacy surrounding them, and instead ask for a ship with a new hull/texture that would more suit creating a new line of history when being used through you.

/c

PS. Wanted to make a deeper comment on the 'quadrillion' statement but feel I shouldn't as it will lead nowhere and we both know that numbers can be presented in the way to make it look better than they are

this is soo wrong. some douchebag having access to our account informations on a 3rd-party site using it to argue on the official forums and using it to influence a discussion. so wrong.

CCP CCP'in.

CCP, with this one announcement you have validated the fears of every player who has believed the CSM to be pointless and powerless. The CSM was established in order to create transparency and restore player trust in CCP after previous scandals involving CCP employees showing favoritism to players and in-game entities.

By proceeding with a decision with such obvious potential for a similar scandal and accusations of blatant favoritism without even consulting the CSM, you have essentially created t20 ver 2.0. Frankly, the only chance you have to restore credibility at this point is to immediately reverse this decision and claim it as a lapse in judgement.

However, I fear that even doing this would be insufficient, as the damage is likely already done. CCP has again shown clear favoritism to a single third pary site and in-game entity, and the one regulation on CCP's integrity, the CSM, has been bypassed entirely, destroying player trust in the effectiveness of this organization and the transparency of CCP-player interactions.

The only difference between this event and previous scandals is that this time, instead of resulting from the actions of rogue CCP employees, this favoritism is officially and publicly endorsed by the company. This makes the situation even worse than any before it, as the favoritism now has a stamp of approval, indicating that it is now standard procedure and official policy for CCP to favor some players/organizations over others.

Good luck restoring trust after this one!

the changes dont go far enough, no profit making 3rd party should be able to generate more income from gifts given by CCP. In a nut shell, CCP are still giving SOMER Blink ISK, thats way out of line imo.

which part of 'CCP should NOT give any 3rd party FREE ISK' do you not understand?

Confirming my Somer Blink account got banned when i never bothered to read the rules of a 3rd party website not affiliated with CCP and tried to promo blink with 2 accounts not knowing this was not permitted

I pay my subscription to CCP just like everybody else - Why am I therefore being marginalised and excluded from being able to participate in this "community event" facilitated by CCP ?

The underlying principles here are exactly the same as why CCP Falcon decided to withdraw from several player run channels recently to create their own, given that player moderation / actions were potentially preventing all players from having free and unilateral access to CCP related content.

My Somer Account is blocked - I pay my eve subscription, yet I cannot take part in this event despite me abiding by and adhering to the terms and conditions as layed out by the EULA..

Unless everybody has access to participate in this lottery, then by its own actions, choices and decisions CCP are marginalising and excluding members of their own community since clearly there will be players who cannot take part in this even if they wanted to.

Utterly dreadful decision making, clear favouritism, and by default, not fair to the "whole" community.

10/10.

I am also excluded because I am not and never have been a SomerSucker™.

RABBLE