selling Apotheosis bpos on the open market?

We can't think of real content so lets just favor one group of players and give away rare ships. CCP spent all Alliance tournament talking about how ships are really destroyed. I guess the small print was until they decide to play favorites and give them away.

The Gold Magnate made me feel like decisions in EVE have consequences. Now i feel like CCP is turning away from that with many recent decisions, and it is making me worried.

CCP gives prizes to support all sorts of player-run events. This is not ground-breaking.

3+2 new copies of rare ships is not going to ruin the game.

Personally I look forward to taking a shot at winning a Guardian Vexor.

Hell Eve-Vegas itself is a player-organized event. Why not ***** and moan about CCP sending devs out to support it and spending valuable money and time that could be used developing features!

CCP would never really do this.

CCP's prizes for player-run events in the past have been petty things like PLEX. If you cannot recognize the difference between something like CCP giving an organizer of an RL meetup a handful of timecodes and literally driving players towards a gambling site with the hopes of winning a prize - and the chance of winning those prizes increasing the more ISK they spend - all in exchange for that gambling site giving away petty prizes at EVE Vegas, I can't help you.

Also, you realize that EVE Vegas is an extremely expensive event to organize, right? According to Zapa, it's $19k in deposits and $40k after all is said and done. It has never so much as broken even.

As Goons are historically important to the game and still creating fresh content can we get some dev favoritism for once instead of having whatever bandwagon we're on nerfed every time without fail?

I have to agree with many in this Threadnaught.

Spawn new unique ships. Somer is fine for auctioning them off.

Please dont reintroduce the past. Let it keep it's glory (unless of course you hand them straight to me in which case I'll gladly accept them to decorate my hangar. )

new Apotheosis ships have been part of promotions several times over the past 2 years.

back then hardly anybody cried (Antiquarian doesn't count) so CCP are stepping up their game now

[insert boiling frogs analogy here]

Let's face the truth. There will be only 2 Goldmagnates and 4 x Guardian Vexors. At the end ISK is the deciding aspect. Some ultraspacerich guys/collectors (chribba, entity etc.) will buy almost all tickets and win, or the average pilot wins one of those rare ships and sells it for some billions (trillions) to another superspacerich collector. Finally, the ships are as rare as before, and will collect dust in hangars like the others. So will the Goldmagnates. Never seen again...

I'm telling you, once EA (or anything related to EA) gets their hands on something, you can expect that thing to rot and become ruined.

Stick to your guns CCP, these things are just pixels.

Some of you need to take a break from EVE, find a girl (or guy, whatever) and "get some".

CCP gives prizes to support all sorts of player-run events. This is not ground-breaking.

3+2 new copies of rare ships is not going to ruin the game.

Personally I look forward to taking a shot at winning a Guardian Vexor.

Hell Eve-Vegas itself is a player-organized event. Why not ***** and moan about CCP sending devs out to support it and spending valuable money and time that could be used developing features!

I can see the difference, but CCP gave prizes to the Big Lottery for their anniversary. I can't think of other examples off the top of my head, but that one is pretty similar in terms of a money-generating gambling site. Where was the outrage then?

I'm not sure what the cost of running the EVE Vegas event has to do with anything, but thanks for the info.

Do you not realize that this would usher in the era where CCP hands out once unique ships to third parties like AOL Trial-Disk at the supermarket?

This is another spit on the face at the "collecting profession." When I started playing EVE, I loved the aspect of having ownership over these beautiful pixel ships with definite quantities in the market. There are those who spent thousands of hours to accumulate wealth (or spent thousands of dollars in cash for PLEX purchase), just to own these truly unique ships. Now that CCP is planning to print these unique ships like AOL Trial disks, preexisting owners will incur substantial loss as they see the market value of these ships go down.

Collecting unique items and seeing my "pixel investments" grow brought me ultimate joy years ago. Ever since the advent of handing out once-unique-items freely by CCP Marketing department, now, I am not even sure what to collect. I play this game with constant fear that whatever I bought will see their market value plunge due to CCP minting more ships.

I stopped collecting any "unique" items that were issued from 2009 and up. Please do not touch old unique ships that have standings in EVE history.

This completely dwarfs that, by leaps and bounds.



Because you brought up CCP attending EVE Vegas and promoting it?

Gold Magnates don't actually have a "market value" because up until now there have been no extant hulls since 2004.

I understand your concerns, but it's only 4 gvex and 2 Goldies. I am sure entity would pay only for the goldies some trillions of isk. So there is no drop in market value, so there isn't with 4 more gvexes. The problem is SOMER, they are a capitalist mafia.