The CSM is nothing but a CCP marketing tool. Think that's obvious by now.

Mara, that analogy makes no sense whatsoever. You seem to think that the CSM can make CCP do something or not do something. I assure you this is not the case. We can influence here and there, sometimes, when CCP is in the mood to be influenced. And sometimes, we're not even told something is happening when it happens, which includes BOTH cases involving SOMER.

Most of them are NDA'd, alas.

Malcanis:

Suppose CCP gave every director of Goonswarm Federation about 10 PLEX each for their contributions to the sandbox.
This comes out to, very roughly, 300 billion ISK worth of PLEX being given directly to the command staff of the largest alliance in the game.
Since PLEX doesn't refine to anything, has no intrinsic value aside from what players assign to it, and since our leadership is already ridiculously wealthy, you should have no problem with this, right? After all CCP has a right to reward its content creators.

As I understand it, the receipients themselves asked for the gift not to be publicised. Which is I think their right.

Christ EVE players are a bunch of whiny brats at times.

CCP has a long history of rewarding players for improving the game. From the PLEX individual players can get from the buddy system to these golden scorpions.

These people work to improve your game. And you want them to do it for free.

Idiots.







Can I haz my golden scorpion now CCP?

Because of your gigantic confirmation bias, which only allows you to see the evidence that suits your preconceptions.

Like for instance they way you've dishonestly ignored the CSM's communication about CCP's proposal to give Somer actual unique ships.

So you're happy that they and CCP can collude to defraud anyone who bought the ships off them then? Purchasers would have believed they were getting one of eighty odd ships, not one of over a hundred. It's a small difference but it evidently adds up to several billion given how the price on them has dropped since the news got out.


And given you think it's okay for CCP to give secret gifts worth hundreds of billions of isk to the same corporation they've enriched to the tune of X $$$ and again hundreds of billions of isk, where exactly does that leave the CSM then given you think it's okay and Ripard was desperately shilling for ccp?

Where did CCP say that no more Ishscorps would be given out?

Where did CCP say that no more Ishscorps would be given out?

So, in the end this is all about jelly people about less-than-rare pixels and virtual currency in an MMO ??

So, in the end this is all about jelly people about less-than-rare pixels and virtual currency in an MMO ??

Jesus...

EDIT: This global reaction about this "thing" for a couple days now, shows the part of or how childish and idiot this community can be in some regards. Shameless comparisons and so much jealousy just stinks.

That actually was a scandal. It was scandalous. This is merely people making hay out of a legit, generous but somewhat clumsily executed gesture.

The Mittani for CSM!

So, what is CCP gifting you and the rest of the CSM with for this fine....fine example of community service?

Err no, not again thank you. It worked out so well last time.

We got Crucible. I happen to think it did work out rather well.

We got Crucible. I happen to think it did work out rather well.

Yes, and we got a insight into Mittens mental health as well at fanfest.

Yes, and we got a insight into Mittens mental health as well at fanfest.

He is wrong and knowing CCP talks to players like him explains how they made such a big mistake.

Most posters don't want stuff, that is sarcasm. A form of communication everyone trying to protect Somer seems to be incapable of understanding. Here is why this is wrong:

A: Gifts given to a for profit site with competitors is CCP showing blatant favoritism

B: This is on top of them vouching for the trustworthiness of an organization in EVE which is a huge boost to their profits, undeserved, and against CCP's own EULA.

C: CCP Navigator use to work for blink and has now twice favored blink with rare bonus items over every other entity in the game with no transparency which makes people suspicious.

D: His only response to this criticism was to promote their free blinks on the forums which aren't actually free.

E: CCP Falcon said CCP would not support any event that was controlled by players if everyone in EVE could not participate. Blink bans players for arbitrary reasons and yet CCP gave them items to raffle off. They couldn't even keep this story straight for a month.

F: The very players elected to stop CCP from playing favorites and spawning ingame items for people is now defending them. If there was any good reason to provide Somer with all these free items CCP would have released their guide to who gets free stuff. There isn't because blink only got the stuff due to favoritism.

G: They have now twice been given billions, maybe trillions of isk in a row for "community service." Has anybody else gotten anything in the interim? No because CCP doesn't care about community service.

He and the rest of the CSM are starting to look like mushrooms; kept in the dark and fed bull****. Though thank you to the ones who stood up against this on twitter.

I know, it's so unusual for drunk people to say stupid things.

Beside the point, if you know you can't handle alcohol, then you really shouldn't been drinking.

it's not beside the point.

your entire statement was basically "look at mittens, he's not normal because of what happened at fanfest" when in fact, what happened at fanfest wasn't abnormal at all.