Tippia wrote:So here's a few questions for those dismissing this issueGǪ
What do you imagine the community reaction had been if, say, the Goons or Minerbumping had been the recipients?
Needlessly emotional, just like this reaction. I personly don't care who CCP gives stuff they own to. It;s their private property.
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After all, what they're doing is rewarding community services and/or people sponsoring player events. Those two entities have created huge amounts of content through the events they sponsor.
What do you imagine the reaction from Somer had been if they had been offered 30 ibises? After all, these ships hold no intrinsic value and only refine to 1 ISK, the same as an IshuScorp.
What do you imagine the community reaction would have been if, say, the CSM was hand-picked by CCP and not publicly revealed? After all, that too is just a way to interact with the community but is somehow deemed necessary to surround with months of build-up and voting?
How appropriate do you feel it would be if the developers started to promote Cheetos-« as a great way to pick up GTCs? You'd get one with the return of every 10 bar code cut-outs and you don't even need to eat them. Also, does this make fritolay.com a community site? After all, many EVE players probably use their products regularly.
All the above would be fine. OR if I did find a problem with it, I'd make exactly one post about it, wait to see if it changed, and then leave. Because I don't own ccp or EVE online (and the thousands upon thousand of actual hours I've spent playing it and loving it and worshiping the Holy Mach, blessed be it's name, doesn't change that).
The problem is that some of you do feel like you own it. CCP lets you feel that way, Even created a group it lets you vote for to cement that feeling of ownership. But it's just a feeling, a false one at that. At the end of the day, CCP can do as it pleases with it's private property, as can all of you (with your money, or without your time that you use to make plex).
And the whole community isn't reacting negatively (which IMO is what burns the over-reactors, turning you loit into Over-Reactor IIs with extra powergrid bonus). There are many of us who really don't give 2 flips about CCP handing out some inferior ships. I'm sorry, but something a private company does just doesn't rise to the level of genuine concern for me. I find your concern silly.