Free stuff?, and I didn't even have to post a "Stuff, can I haz"

It's free, they don't have to give us free stuff on their birthday. If you really dislike them all, don't take one, alternatively take the ships, fit them out and then lose them in highly entertaining ways.

You know Eve Online has improved when the only complaint players have right now is the kind of FREE gifts they are given. Just like how the Font was the only issue in Crucible.

"Hey Santa claus you ****! Where's me ******* bike?
I've unwrapped all this other junk and there's nothing that I like.
I wrote you a ******* letter and I come to see you twice,
Ya worn out geriatric bastard, you forgot me ******* bike.
If I wanted a pair of bloody thongs, I'd have bloody asked
and this cowboy suit and ping pong set you can shove right up your arse!
You've stuffed me bloody order up, it's enough to make you spew
and I'm not the only one who's snakey, me sister's dirty too!
Next time I come to see ya, I'm gonna punch you in the guts
and I'll let your ******* reindeer go and kick Rudolf in the nuts!"

Is this how you gift your children? Is this the way of showing how grateful you are

I wish CCP would add a snowball machine as a gift. 1 unit of clear ice makes 1000 snowballs.

Yes the choices aren't as good as the ones we got last time, but tbh if CCP were to do that every time it wouldn't be long before they were giving out battleships for free, .

Just confirming that the OP is a self entitled douchebag as is any other asshat that is complaining about the gift options.

1st of all I didn't came knocking on your doorstep and started to complain about how crappy your lawn looks like so be nice.
And I'm really sorry for the lot of that don't get the point of the post. Don't really care, since I'm expressing my view on the matter not asking for permission or acknowledge from you.
I feel that if one has to show gratitude to another, for whatever the reasons are, one should be at least polite enough not to make the gifted party feel, well unappreciated i guess.
And I don't mean to be ungrateful or something, I'm just saying how this act from CCP left me feel.
A gift is a gift, but this isn't a date, and i'm not impressed.

Yes the choices aren't as good as the ones we got last time, but tbh if CCP were to do that every time it wouldn't be long before they were giving out battleships for free, that is not good for the game.

They started this new way of doing things with a bang, it doesn't mean that the expectations the opening event created should have to be exceeded or matched every time they give us free stuff. By keeping the odd gifts small it remains easy to meet expectations in the long term, I wouldn't expect a choice even approaching the scale of last years to happen until at the very earliest christmas, if we're lucky.

Besides, hopefully the news articles about recent events will lure in some new players, those free gifts are going to be extremely important to them. A cruiser is the attainable future for noobs, not the distant past. Noobs are important, without them no game would ever have become a success, simply because we were all noobs once.