I imagine CCP is kinda confused as this isn't the first time they've given prizes to Somer to give away. For Somer's one quadrillion celebration CCP gave them 4 Collectors Editions and some Ishukone Watch Scorpions to give away using this same giveaway mechanic and nobody seemed to care about it then. Is it the large in-game value that makes this different?

So you're saying that we do a better job of raising awareness of concerning issues to the rest of the playerbase than anyone else?

Thanks for the compliment, it's nice to know our efforts are so appreciated.

Comparatively speaking, the magnitude of the prizes. A few CEs and a handful of IWS is a far cry from several guardian vexors and a couple of frigates that are literally priceless.

Realistically speaking, nothing, although I'd be of the opinion that the prizes in question would be far more in line with the magnitude of things that CCP should hand out through this community engagement thing. That is, of course, provided that the policy David said they'd be writing allows the player or player group receiving the prizes to materially benefit from their distribution, which I'm pretty sure I'd be against.

Practically speaking, while I can't speak for other goons, I very rarely play Blink at all and didn't even know they were giving away CEs and IWS during the Q1 celebrations until it was brought up again more recently.

Let's try a bit harder to read the post and not skip over the part where I said I didn't really think handouts like this should materially benefit the organization they're given to to distribute, shall we?

so this clearly anything but a "developing program" considering that CCP has previously given things to somer blink with no strings attached under the assumption that they'd give them away to people on their site

i'm not sure what you're getting at, other than telling everybody that CCP are lying to the playerbase through their teeth, again, and presenting more evidence of CCP's favoritism towards one particular player

as it turns out a lot of people are indeed surprised to find out that somer blink was gifted items by CCP not one, but twice

not all of us are gambling addicts who compulsively f5 for promos and celebrations, so forgive us for not being aware of every single thing somer blink has ever given away

For whatever it might be worth to you, I didn't know about it.

I still don't see the point behind this whole line of argumentation though. Just because something bad happened in the past we can't be arguing about something bad (in fact even worse because of the increased value) happening now? That doesn't make sense to me. The only thing this could IMO explain is why CCP might not have expected backlash, but I'm already assuming good intentions on CCP's side.

We want no-one to have special treatment. If you had even the slightest sense of irony it should be tingling right about now, since it was a very determined posting effort by GSF members back in the day that stopped CCP just sweeping the T20 scandal under the rug.

You people are so blinded by your ridiculous hatred you don't even know when we're helping you.

Posting here if only to say I'm still paying attention to this issue. I laughed when the only thing CCP could be bothered to do on the previous thread, after over 74 pages of customers expressing disapproval of their actions and requesting an official comment, was to shut the thread down and refer everyone to pages started as a result of completely separate topics.

Even if you think closing the thread was correct, why would CCP have not made a comment of their own before locking? I think that's all many of the posters with complaints were requesting for most of the weekend.

I'm still looking forward to how they respond to the fact that somer is known to ban people at their discretion (such as same IP address), and you are required to pay somer in order to partake.

There are plenty of people who pay their subscriptions and have accounts in good standing who were literally incapable of partaking in this give away, as the third party CCP gave control decided to exclude them.

That above all else is disgusting.