oh, you're even going to do their marketing for them?

I was under the impression that CCP does not vouch for the trustworthiness of any player. Yet, here you are, implicitly vouching for their trustworthiness.

I was under the impression that CCP does not vouch for the trustworthiness of any player. Yet, here you are, implicitly vouching for their trustworthiness.

Not mention factually untrue. You need to have played paid games in the last 48hrs to be eligible for the promo blinks unless you've already given them 1bn isk. The same guy that tells us they've audited Blink and it's 100% trustworthy doesn't even know the most basic rules of the site.

And they listened +1 CCP

This is unacceptable and it diminishes the history of EVE and a few very specific ships that have been repeatedly been said to NEVER be re-introduced ever again.

oh, you're even going to do their marketing for them?

the website because I believe it's literally impossible to remove your cc info from ccp's services

I'm hosting a BBQ for some Eve friends. Yeah, we're going to sit around the barbi grilling up steaks, drinking copious amounts of beers. CCP, I would love to be able to hand out some nifty door prizes. Can I please has about 10 - 20 plex and a couple of unique items to give away?

If I charged for them and pocketed the profit, would that increase my chances here?

First off: thanks CCP Navigator for still being up-front about this and once more showing good intentions and goodwill to handle this issue. You have successfully fixed the smaller issue by changing the ship types.

Now to the less pleasent part: the much larger problem still exists. You are still rather blatantly favouring an ingame, for-profit player organization. This is a clear disadvantage to their competitors and can't be undone by a potential future favour to some of those competitors either. This is a de facto CCP endorsement of one service over all other similar services.

I said it in the other thread and I'll say it again:
If you want to provide us with a sandbox you have to be disciplined enough to keep your fingers out of the sandbox.

I'm a 3rd party dev, and even though (unlike Blink) our project is completely out-of-game and non-profit and therefore we don't have competitors (at least I'm not regarding the EveMon/EFT/pyfa guys as competition) I wouldn't feel comfortable taking ingame stuff from CCP. If you want to help 3rd party devs and support the enablers as you are calling it I'm suggesting 3 possibilities:

• Provide us with better tools. Fix the current API problems like the silly error handling or missing BP info. Speed up CREST development, we haven't had an update regarding the 3rd party dev license in more than half a year. These are the kind of things every 3rd party dev would be happy about and you don't have to play favourites to hand them out.
• Keep the Spotlight dev blogs coming. One could argue that even they are a bit of an endorsement and skew competition in case of ingame for-profit organizations, but I guess it's a very mild case of favouritism.
• If you really have to reward certain people you deem especially worthy: Pay for their accounts. Mind you, not by giving them PLEX which is an ingame commodity and can be used to increase your ingame power, but by making the subscription free.

I like the first option best cause you completely avoid the favouritism thing, but at least the second and third options arguably don't provide an ingame advantage for the favoured chosen ones.

Imagine if, when the T20 scandal broke out and the game's reputation was on fire, CCPs response was to say 'yeah, in hindsight we shouldn't have given that Sabre BPO to BoB, that was dumb of us. Here, have a Flycatcher BPO instead, and a free ticket to Fanfest while you're at it. That makes things all better, right players?'.

Was a single member of the CSM advised/consulted about this ?

If anyone on the CSM was told about this, and thier answer was anyting but, "Are you f'ing kidding me?" then I would be very surprised.

I appreciate that CCP has retracted the re-issue of the G-Magnate and the G-Vex in the face of community comments.

I am however still highly critical of the decision to show such favour to Somer Blink. Every eve subscription should be entitled to have a chance at winning something from the modified prize list.

But forcing a player to spend ISK for a chance, CCP is saying "Your $15 bux is less important to someone else's". In this case I dont think its out of place to note that I pay that $15 six times every month, becaue I love this game.

They have had three years of constantly delivering on every blink, blast and bonk they have organized.