Winchester Steele
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Posted - 2013.10.08 05:41:00 -
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Although I can't muster the sub cancelling outrage of some of my fellow capsuleers, I would like to officially go on the record saying that this is a pretty lame, anti-sandbox move on CCP's part.
Aside from the blatant and totally inappropriate favoritism, you are forcing a portion of the community to use a third party site (which they may not trust or want to do business with or be banned from) in order to get a chance at these unique prizes. Even worse, you're forcing people to gamble in order to have a chance to win these prizes. Since I don't really feel like being a sucker and further padding the wallet of SOMERblink I guess I too am excluded from this "community event".
Was there not a fiasco just recently involving RP channels being unfairly moderated resulting in portions of the community being excluded? If I am not mistaken, the solution to this was to move the process in house so as to include the entire community. At the heart of it, this is really the same issue and consequently can be resolved by a similar solution. Moving the distribution of these prizes in house would be an easy and efficient way to bring this situation under control. First, the ENTIRE community gets the opportunity to participate without having to trust a questionably operated and moderated third party gambling site. Second, you preserve the sanctity of the sandbox by reversing your very poor decision to give SOMERblink a HUGE ingame advantage (basically feeding them massive quantities of isk from capsuleers seeking to get a piece of EvE memorabilia).
Then, in the future, you can seek out a way to reward the valuable members of our community which doesn't confer any direct in game advantages. Game time or special untradeable NEX items would be appropriate I think.
To arbitrarily choose a group of people and confer great in-game advantages on them is totally against the spirit of this game. We know it, and I would like to believe that CCP knows it too. One of the most endearing qualities of CCP as a company is that you folks are all too human and frequently make these sorts of clumsy mistakes in your efforts to engage your playerbase. Mistakes are okay CCP, and I would much rather have you make the effort than to remain aloof and uncaring like so many other corporate studios. It's important that you recognize these poor choices though and act decisively to correct course.
At a certain point CCP, you just gotta man up, admit to the community that you made a mistake and do the right thing.
Do the right thing CCP. Don't **** in the sandbox.
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