Kuni Oichi
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.11 01:10:00 -
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With regard to the free Ishukone Scorpions given as freebies to the Somer blink staff:
1) What contributions to Eve were CCP recognising?
The bulk of staff at Somer blink, as I understand it, process deposits, hand out winnings, freighter ships/items and deal with customer service issues. For this they receive a plex per month and 90+ mil an hour (freighter pilots being paid per jump) for their 'work' for the company. What did CCP feel the need to further reward them for doing what they are there to do for their corporation.
2) If (speculating) that contribution to the community is in the sponsorship of events, why did CCP not give that recognition and reward to the people running the events, rather than those funding them via their own marketing?
With regard to the unprecedented largesse given for the Somer blink lottery
1) Was CCP aware of how Somer blink would run the lottery for the prizes they were given? Namely that instead of 1 ticket per person, customers/gamblers were heavily incentivised to put more and more money into somer blink to increase their chance of winning?
2) Was any consideration given that doing this would act as a huge promotion for Somer blink, increasing their short and long-term revenue. If not then what is CCP's thought on the enrichment of a corporation via freebies now? If it was, then why was this done?
3) Was any consideration given to the fact people would have to sign up to Somer Blink's services and participate in gambling? There are individuals who have rl gambling addiction (in fact the likelihood is that there are people in eve with gambling addiction because of somer blink) or religious probibitions against gambling.
With regard to this statement 'The IWS is a cool thing to have and thatGÇÖs why we use it as a reward, not because it carries X ISK value. The price people negotiate is wholly decided between individuals and is hard for us to predict with any precision. '
1) The price of most things in the game is easily checked via assorted means, why was this not a consideration and, moreover, why was there no consideration over the economic effects of keeping the 'gifts' secret?
CCP made exceptionally bold claims about Somer, assuring their reliability, that they'd never scammed etc. They were given unprecedented largesse not once, but twice - once in public, once without disclosure. Fundamentally then we have the same corporation being given special treatment by CCP on two occasions.
Going forwards
What would YOU like to see, going forward?
Awards
Personally I think the community spotlight should be enough for most things. Likewise I'm not personally convinced someone needs to get a plex each month for running a blog on the game, but then that's a cheap marketing extra for CCP.
in game out of game, what sort?
Out of game for preference. Recognition is its own reward (the community spotlight) but t-shirts, rifter USBs etc. work as well. If not out of game then without economic or political value. Special pods that are a different colour, things that have no possible trade value, and they're lost if that character is sold.
how are they chosen?
There's no such thing as a fair metric for community recognition, because one person's excellent event is another person's 'meh' however it should be kept broad, the same company/individual shouldn't be getting rewarded twice in a short period of time as Somer was and it should take in the different facets of the game. EveMon/EveFit are indispensible tools, likewise Dotlan and Garpa. The Angel Project apparently does something to help new players (Though I doubt it's as good as Goon support for our newbies, but that's not exactly typical), someone whose name escapes me fought rifters in their nyx as part of the 10 year celebration etc. Those are all things that support the community and add value. Ohh and Goons got Eve on the BBC, so obviously we should be top of the list!
how is it kept transparent
You publish your guidelines on how people are chosen, you publish who is getting what (Why wouldn't you want people to know who CCP thinks deserves recognition, I'm frankly baffled it has been kept secret until now).
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