You can register and play a free promo blink which happen often and get an entry.

Here's how it works: Any time you play any Blink, you receive 1 ticket to the drawing (even if you buy more than one ticket). Plus, if you win the Blink, you receive bonus tickets based on the size of the Blink.

(For example, if you win a Big Blink, you'll receive three ticketsGÇö one for playing and two for winning.)

What 100's of billions of ISK would those be? The ones they will donate for prizes at EVE Vega perhaps?

Whom, exactly, are they competing with in game?

Or are we now to the point that we are going to say they don't provide a popular service for EVE players, and are not worthy of sponsorship to run a special event?

So either one of them is more worthy of sponsorship? Or should none of them be considered for something like this because of the nature of the service they offer?

How about Chribba? Is he the only person or organization in EVE worthy of CCP sponsorship for an event?

Or is what you are really saying is that CCP should never sponsor any 3rd party group of players or organizations? If so, that is a valid point for debate and is far more worthy of discussion that casting frankly imaginary stones.

If the CFC sponsored an event like EVE Vega and sold tickets for ISK and/or cash with CCP's permission, or hosted a competitive tournament (accepting entry fee's of course) I could certainly see CCP sponsoring some of the prizes for you to hand out.

That's somewhat debatable as gambling services are in rather high demand in EVE.

Truthfully, I view this as an honest attempt to provide CCP backing to prominent organizations in the community... handled in perhaps the clumsiest way imaginable, but their intentions are fairly clear and honest I believe.

That depends, are the super capital builders sponsoring Titan give away contests to their customers?

And they listened +1 CCP

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When it was pre-existing hulls, there was a lot of valid complaint.

Now: I see a bunch of goons saying "Give it to us instead" and a bunch of other lottos saying "Give it to us instead"

When both are being ignored, I see them both crying foul.

This all reads like new player jealously.

BIG has been given limited edition ships 2? 3? times now. SCL were given Ishiscorps before. Blink was given Isiscorps before.

No part of this is new behavior.

Again, I get why someone whose august resume includes GoonWaffe and EN24 mk2 wouldn't know this - and how your elite reporting skills could miss the link three posts down from the one you quoted - but the favoritism you're complaining about isn't new.

At all.

This has been the way of Eve for the last 10 years, at the very least.

This isn't even the biggest case of giving stuff out to player organizations publically.

It's not even the 3rd time this has happened since 09 nubbins like you started playing.

Player organizations that do things CCP like for the community get CCP endorsement.

I understand that you didn't know this, and now that someone has spoon fed you the knowledge you feel like the game has changed.

But it hasn't.

You've just seen a part of it you were oblivious to in your little corner, previously.

I think people are jealous... And rightly so... I too would love one of those ships. But I will not do it through gambling.

Andski said, "EVE Vegas is an event that actually develops the community. A gambling event is not."

Ah, shoot. Back to okay for Devs to back player events again.

Andski said, "Hey CCP, when can TheMittani.com start offering unique ships and Fanfest packages sponsored by CCP through their website and stream?"

Only okay if it's you, now. But it's hard to play moral outrage and willing vendor at the same time...

Except all the **** Somer is giving them.

You are really clueless dude. Just stop.

Sure thing, kiddo.

You carry on with the righteous crusade.

I'll look forward to seeing your article about it on Reddit.

oh wait....

You really need to work on being less obvious with the Straw Man stuff.

You said they don't get anything in game for doing Eve Vegas. They're getting a shitload of in game stuff from Somer.

That you think people shouldn't use Somer is separate from you being incredibly wrong.

Too easy, shiptoaster. Too easy.

Groups who want CCP sponsorship, make arguments pointing to the marketing campaigns you've created that simultaneously redistribute tons of ISK back into the Eve community fairly. Indicate the individual player projects you've supported with your profits, how you've driven turnout to events, and propose a method for distributing those prizes across 95% of the Eve population (yeah it's currently not a perfect method, we get it). If CCP is looking to move forward with stuff like this, which a lot of the people I've talked to seem to be OK with, act like businesses and figure out how to benefit from it.

You too?

Christ, HTFU.

Wish Hilmer would come into this thread and tell everyone to F.O.

screw this bunch of whiney bitches.

This isn't eve 2007, Goons *are* the new Band of Brothers (you guys still have the alliance name stashed away, don't you?) and you don't need t2 bpos.