Maybe it was policy to give favorites things and try to hide it, what thennnnnn

No. It should all be disclosed. Otherwise, it's just a waste of CCP's time.

All these threads and that article disclosing ~bad things~ are a waste of ccp's time

they could be blinkin' and getting money

SomerBLINK supports in-game events. Why? The same as AON sponsor Manchester United or the Bank of America sponsor the New England Patriots. To advertise, to get more customers and to make more PROFIT.

Lets look at some other deserving community sites...

The Angel Project by Sindel Pellion
Eve Travel and the Lore Guide by Mark726
Eveoganda by Rixx Jivix

Why do these SomerBLINK employees work for the this gambling webiste? For ISK! For a slice of the big profits it generates. So CCP grants them a 20bn ISK ship ON TOP of the ISK they receive for running the site?

If CCP had said, "look guys we are giving away these ships for people who do a lot for the community ad SB are the first" I'd have said OK, don't agree with the first awardee but whatever". But its the underhand way its been carried out.

Smells fishy, and I'm not talking about the contents of Baldrick's Apple Crumble!

And if I as a customer of CCPs product, with which they can do however they like according to you, think that the steps taken would distort the game in a way I feel uncomfortable with should just STFU and unsub?

I think the reasonable response to something like this is the thread we see here where customers can show their discomfort with the situation to give CCP the chance to fix it before it becomes even worse and people actually start leaving. Well I wonder what they can possibly do to fix this..

Or we could stay silent and let them drive into the wall. It depends, if you like the game or not.

If all the players where like you and don't give a f*** about things like this, how far would EVE have come, and how would it look like if it had survived? I rather don't know

Gifting unprecedented value of assets to individual organisations goes against the fundamental principal of eve. I don't see the entitlement issues or the need for a mindless insult, but I do see you, spewing sarcastic poorly-spelled garbage.

Pretty sure mebiatch is just screaming some words he saw on fox news earlier this week...

I guess players getting pissy over CCP gifting trillions of assets to a particular group in direct conflict of their games "sandbox" buzzword is considered "entitlement issues". The truth is that me biatch lives in a different reality than most of us.

So...

14b for a ship
14bb/580m = 24 months of plex.
How nice from CCP giving 2 years free to some players.

Nope. They simply transferred 450b isk from rare ship collectors to SOMER Blink for free.

Yes because a competition with anounced prices is totally the same as secretly gifting stuff to some chosen entity. Totally the same.

Btw, I'm talking about a figurative sandbox filled with internet spaceships and what not, not the literal kitty/child variety.

Good thing we elected CSM members like Trebor to defend CCP against the demands of their paying customers no matter what, and to be really snarky about it, too.

who the **** said anything about entitlement

we're not asking CCP to give us free **** we're asking CCP to stop pouring free **** into their preferred entities while calling this a "sandbox"

A BPO doesn't refine into anything, so it must be infinitely more suitable than the IshuScorps.

The same way all valuables do.

i fixed your post

sit on that for a bit

go look at the price history of the item. go check the sell orders subforum. you're seriously trying to argue that it has no value?

not when they're being given away in secret

So you're ok with BoB getting their BPOs back then. After all, they have no value either.

not sure you understand what novelty means.

the false assumption might have something to do with the items being given away in secret and permitting somer blink employees to engage in insider trading with said items

You know a way to make everyone happy would be to give everyone something, instead of just a selected favorite few.

I for one could go for a nice Freki myself, that or free SoE ships when they come out.

and you are wondering why people are thinking you're too dumb for this discussion...

you can't parse common rhetorical techniques, such as sarcasm and whimsy. IMO

No - you really can't - a T2 BPO having been given out to a single entity is unheard of, meaning there is a limitless supply of the product from various entities which provides competition.

Giving out unique ships (which are speculation objects) to rmt-laundring parasites like Somer is not even the same league as T20.

It's just so much worse...

So if CCP spawned every Goon a (special faction) titan that was 95% as efficient as a regular Titan but didn't refine into anything / the wreck can't be salvaged, then there's no issue there, right?

Not sure if you're a dumb person trolling, or a very dumb person talking from the heart.

help help help my purely vanity item is shooting missiles and jamming people help help this isn't meant to be

30 represented their whole 'corp' much like 10k represents us.

Fair is fair.

But since you're now agreeing that we should be given 10,000 titans rather than back down from your stupid position, we can safely assume nothing you say is of any value.

Gotta love those people standing up for ccp

For your valuable contributions, have a (spawned item here)

Wait, I thought they weren't worth anything because they only refined to 1 trit? Why would anyone pay 20b for one?

See, CCP? This is the customer you will be keeping after the dust settles. People that don't comprehend the simplest ideas of a market.

We're... CCP's bitchessssssss?????!

No. This is still favoritism.

All favoritism is bad.

I don't understand why people are upset.

Sure giving almost a trillion isks worth of ships to random players is a totally ******** thing to do. Of cause then trying to keep it a secret is one of the dumbest things you can do.

The thing is, this is CCP, what do you expect? They have always helped out their friends in game either through mechanics or just plain cheating. We have to expect it rather than be shocked by it.

Maybe Hilmar will give us all a pair of Japanese $1000 jeans to make up for it.

It doesn't really matter if it was before or after. They're still lying.

The claim that GÇ£[t]he Ishukone Scorpion was created for exactly this sort of purposeGÇöa promo ship for giveaways and special occasions to be used on multiple levelsGÇ¥ is pure history revisionism. In reality, IshuScorp was created to offer ship bling for the NeX in the same way as pants and monocles provided bling for the avatars. When it became apparent that the NeX code was too incomplete to actually handle this properly, it was put away.

Only much later, when they figured that they needed some kind of special-issue ship to hand out as a promo reward for people attending expos and conventions, they hauled it out of storage because, hey, what's the easiest way to create a new ship? Why, to not create a new ship at all, of course, but to re-use a ship that had lost its original purpose.

I believe you, but could I get a source for this?

No.

let's assume you're correct.

that still leaves nearly 7 pages of legitimate concern.

Totally forgot about Chribba ...
If somebody should have gotten stuff, then him...

What contributions are those.