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James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.11 08:42:00 -
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I'm just going to quote myself from another thread since it says pretty much everything I want to say:
James Amril-Kesh wrote: What most people seem to misunderstand about this issue is that our grievance here predominantly lies not in the nature of the gift itself, nor in the recipient. The most significant problem with what has happened here is twofold:
First, CCP's awarding of these gifts to SOMER Blink was in complete secrecy. While this may not have been CCP's intent, they certainly never made any effort to tell anyone else that they did this. Considering the nature of the gifts involved this amounted to a substantial amount of ISK directly in the wallets of SOMER's employees.
Second, there was (and still is) no defined criteria for reward selection. CCP has stated previously that they wish to reward players and player groups for excellent community services rendered. Nobody disputes that CCP has a right to reward anyone they wish, for whatever reason. However, picking a massively profitable lottery site (yes, with some philanthropic contributions) over the vast number of other groups that have rendered significantly more popular and useful services (Chribba, EFT, EVE-kill, EVEMon/Battleclinic, etc.) suggests that the criteria used in this case was little more than "we like Blink a lot. We should give them stuff."
While this is less important than the other two points, I strongly urge CCP to look into creating items that have significant sentimental value, but not necessarily the kinds of items that can be sold on market or that would have particularly high ISK value. This may have been what CCP intended when they repurposed the SIW, but they should have carefully noted market values and realized just how much ISK they were handing Blink when they gave them the SIWs. But I'm thinking more along the lines of statues that the awardee could have placed in a certain location, much like the monument in Jita originally intended as a tribute to the winners of a riddle challenge several years ago.
Long story short: most dissenters are likely to agree that we would all prefer that any items given away have reasonable ISK value or cannot be sold for ISK, that CCP should create and publish a set of well defined criteria for such rewards, and that when CCP selects a certain group or person to receive such rewards they make an announcement detailing why this person or group deserves these rewards
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James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.11 08:54:00 -
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Most importantly, I should say this:
CCP should never give any in-game entity a gift, under this type of promotion, which would incur a significant financial, political, or strategic advantage.
Suddenly being gifted half a trillion ISK in assets is a significant financial advantage, no matter how you slice it. EVE Online - A Rigged Game |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.11 09:04:00 -
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Rob Crowley wrote:Sai Talos wrote:PS: When did we start looking to themittani.com as a source of credible space journalism? Jesus H Christ. I guess since they reported about stuff that turned out to be true? AFAICS everything they reported about this story turned out to be true and was confirmed by all involved sides, so what exactly is your problem with their reporting? "Grrrr Goons" is their problem. EVE Online - A Rigged Game |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.11 11:33:00 -
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War Kitten wrote:tl;dr:
A bunch of whiny "adults" complained something in life isn't fair. CCP puts on hold a cool reward program until definition of fair can be determined. Whiny adults continue to whine because they are whiners.
Get over it people, life isn't fair, EVE isn't fair.
HTFU.
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James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.12.28 13:52:00 -
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This, along with the lack of summer summit minutes for CSM 8, is pretty damn inexcusable. Latest video - Pandemic Legion titan and supers killed |
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