Kotaku had added a real money value to the ship, so they need to de value it to avoid a complete shitstorm.
It`s a PR thing

"it`s not worth anything"
"everybody`s gonna get one"
etc etc.
From a company standpoint it`s a bad place to be.

Well, after reading the CCP 3rd party site statement, I gained some comfort knowing that in the Ish Scorp, I have finally found a ship just as useless as the Phantasm in my hanger...

CCP, I demand reimbursement for my Phantasm (but I would still like to keep it), because every useless ship you have created should be given away.

CCP, Seriously, an Amarr fleet Avatar that refines to 1 trit would be cool with me. I'm still waiting.

If the leaked email is not a fake, CCP Navigator better be able to live up to his name to navigate through this humdinger of a perfect storm.

It would be just fine, as long as it was slightly worse than the T1 version.

/s

kotaku

[UPDATE] An EVE Online spokesman responds that "The Ishukone Scorpion was created for exactly this sort of purposeGÇöa promo ship for giveaways and special occasions to be used on multiple levels. It has been given out several times already (including some very analogous to this one) and will be given out again in the future for contests, awards, charity-related efforts, 'thanks' and more."

Additionally, despite this spacecraft's unique skin, it is "actually worse gameplay-wise than the regular Scorpion and refines to only 1 TritaniumGÇöso it is little more than a hangar ornament." The reason it's in-game price is so high because of the craft's current rarity. "Yet as more are introduced I am pretty sure the market price will lower based on total supply, as we see after the first few days any ship has been added to EVE."

Community concerns over the use of the ship as a thank-you have been "carefully noted," and the game is "looking into creating a fuller program for those celebrating the amazing EVE community."

It seems CCP have confirmed this to a 3rd party site, but the community isn`t getting an answer

Thanks for the link.

It now seems painfully clear that they've opted for the wall of silence with the playerbase. We've made it several weeks into this situation and there has only been one official communication related to Somer and that amounted to "we're changing some stuff slightly, we're gonna do this whether you want us to or not, but we're not going to discuss anything else about it or the decisions underlying it."

Reading that quote from "a CCP representative," it sure does seem like they're telling us to go **** ourselves.

They told us last time that they would no longer listen to what we say, but would instead judge us by what we do. This thread and the ones that preceded it, the monument protests (btw remember when they renamed the monument in honor of the summer of rage? how many of you noticed that they changed the name back to the original?), and the CSM are absolutely irrelevant. Save your breath and your time. There really isn't anything left to talk about. Log off. Just. Log. Off.

Reading that quote from "a CCP representative," it sure does seem like they're telling us to go **** ourselves.

ok, so let me make sure i'm getting this straight...

CCP just said it doesn't matter that they gave out a bunch of 15bil ships, because they're going to make the ships worthless anyways? yeah, that just further reinforces the shady insider trading **** that makes this whole thing corrupt... good ole blink employees had over a month to sell their items quietly on the market, while everyone else thought it was a limited ship with ~90 runs... you guys introduced a full 30 new units, gave them all to one corp, and let them quietly unload at top dollar? and now i'm going to get stuck holding the bag because i was foolish enough to buy one thinking they were actually, you know, limited? well, thanks for shitting all over me. i run 6 paid accounts, is that not enough income from me? maybe you can replace that income with some more plex purchases through somer

Thanks for the link.

It now seems painfully clear that they've opted for the wall of silence with the playerbase. We've made it several weeks into this situation and there has only been one official communication related to Somer and that amounted to "we're changing some stuff slightly, we're gonna do this whether you want us to or not, but we're not going to discuss anything else about it or the decisions underlying it."

Reading that quote from "a CCP representative," it sure does seem like they're telling us to go **** ourselves.

They told us last time that they would no longer listen to what we say, but would instead judge us by what we do. This thread and the ones that preceded it, the monument protests (btw remember when they renamed the monument in honor of the summer of rage? how many of you noticed that they changed the name back to the original?), and the CSM are absolutely irrelevant. Save your breath and your time. There really isn't anything left to talk about. Log off. Just. Log. Off.

We need a clear statement from the goon leadership that their present position on this is not one of self interest and that they will be happy if no third parties including themselves are given items that do not originate within the game mechanics. The integrity of the sandbox must be preserved at all costs.

I don't understand why this somehow revolves around us.

en-+ti-+tle-+ment noun \--êt-½-t+Öl-m+Önt\
: the condition of having a right to have, do, or get something

: the feeling or belief that you deserve to be given something (such as special privileges)

: a type of financial help provided by the government for members of a particular group

right cuss tech II gear is worse then its tech I version and refines to 1 trit but atleast it has a better skin... so rage!?

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"

how does a vanity item mess with the sandbox?

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

i still dont see how people are upset about this.

honestly

i still dont see how people are upset about this.

honestly

tech II bpo at a time before invention... sure

making me look at a door instead of a station... you betcha

giving out legacy items from eve lore... well ok kinda

making a ship that has no real value and is just a dust collector to give out as prizes and to people who they want to thank for promoting the game...

just dont see the rage on the last one.

the only reason i can see is there is some sort of entitlement issue here.

this is what happens from a generation of every one wins i guess.