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Morphisat
Millard Innovation Inc
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Posted - 2013.10.10 20:17:00 -
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This doesn't answer any questions at all. What ties does CCP have with Somer Blink ? First the weird community spotlight, then the lottery, followed by Billion isk ships. |
Morphisat
Millard Innovation Inc
The 20 Minuters
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Posted - 2013.10.10 21:38:00 -
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Weird, first the index indicated 14 pages and now it's down to 9  . Magic !  |
Morphisat
Millard Innovation Inc
The 20 Minuters
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Posted - 2013.10.11 06:46:00 -
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CCP Guard wrote:Doc Fury wrote:Morphisat wrote:This doesn't answer any questions at all. What ties does CCP have with Somer Blink ? First the weird community spotlight, then the lottery, followed by Billion isk ships. This has been asked several times since page 1, but it conveniently remains unanswered. I've answered this but I can clarify. It had to do with timing, our impression of their overall track record and capability, their niche, and habit of sponsoring events...to name a few. This mixed into a feeling that we should contact them and do stuff with them around EVE Vegas and upcoming tournaments. One thing we are doing more of and looking to do more of is E-sports and online tournaments and if you look at any team sport today you see a lot of betting sites doing sponsorship as that makes sense in sports...so it's just a relationship that we wanted to explore and which we will continue exploring. Doesn't take away from anything other people are doing that is totally different and brings a different kind of value to our universe. Regarding the rewards specifically, we've said we'll reconsider our approach there. p.s. What was weird about the Community Spotlight? :P
I was talking about the Markee Dragon spotlight that came out of nowhere. In hindsight it was a setup for this blatent Somer Blink favouratism. Accuse me of tin foil hattery if you will, but I and a lot of other people have a feeling there is more to this than meets the eye.
I am very sorry to hear that you will keep exploring these 'relationships'. Knowing that CCP is heading in this direction has already caused me to log in less the past few weeks.
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Morphisat
Millard Innovation Inc
The 20 Minuters
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Posted - 2013.10.11 08:50:00 -
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Ra Jackson wrote:CCP Guard wrote:Why SOMER? Well, they are really popular and they have supported a ton of events so we wanted to explore what we could do with them. Their influence in the community is significant for the same reason that they are space rich - because they're good at what they do. They are good at relocating ISK. That's about it. In this spirit you could give every relevant scammer a rare ingame ship.
Yeah following that logic, I am good at shooting sleepers in a C2, can I haz spaceship plz.... |
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