Everybody is probably tired to hear about the most recent drama in the world of Eve, but I will blog about it, albeit a little late, anyway. If only so I can read it back it later on ! I have been collecting interesting links or interesting opinions, so I will include those as well. In case you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen enough about it.<\/p>\n
In my opinion this all started (in hindsight) with the Community spotlight<\/a> on Markee Dragon. Why there was a spotlight on someone who hardly played Eve and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dconly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 seemed to sell Timecodes, where there are dozens of other players and player organisation that deserve such a spotlight more was very odd. In case you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, MD is the ETC code seller on Somer Blink.<\/p>\n Then the first oproar started once CCP announced a lottery held by Somer featuring rare ships. The rewards were changed<\/a> to other unique ships due to players like Chribba who said it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right\u00c2\u00a0 to rerelease these old ships.<\/p>\n Links:<\/p>\n Forum post<\/a> by @EVEAndski<\/a><\/p>\n Akely<\/a> on twitter loosing faith in CCP<\/p>\n The ancient gaming noob<\/a> posted a very interested link<\/p>\n Then this<\/a> happened: a private mail leaked in which it was revealed that all members of Somer Blink had received Special Edition Scorpions. This very much resembled the T20 incident, years ago. Which led to the CSM and an Internal Affairs institution. Somehow this apparently passed by the IA. CSM wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consulted at all. CCP does not seem to consult the CSM in things that matter, we have seen this before.<\/p>\n so it’s just a relationship that we wanted to explore and which we will continue exploring \u00e2\u20ac\u201c CCP_Guard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It took quite a while before an official response was posted. Due to vacation of half the CCP staff apparently. Once the response did come, it was in my opinion very underwhelming. You can read my response and one of my questions was answered<\/a> in the thread, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find it very satisfactory. Even worse, CCP apparently want to keep on exploring these \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcrelationships\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. For now these giveaways are on hold. I just read that as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dconce this blows over, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll continue what we have been doing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n This whole situation is all about trust. CCP mingling in our sandbox. The PR department supporting a shady Eve gambling site that makes (IRL) money by commissioning ETC sales. You can read about that in this excellent forum post<\/a>. I know this situation doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affect my game play directly, but it leaves a very foul taste in my mouth and it makes me slowly loose faith in CCP and the direction they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading.<\/p>\n Some more links:<\/p>\n Crossing Zebras -\u00c2\u00a0 Conflict of interest<\/a><\/p>\n Forum post \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Baron VonDoom<\/a><\/p>\n Icelandic law regarding supporting gambling<\/a><\/p>\n DNSblack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article on Eve24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everybody is probably tired to hear about the most recent drama in the world of Eve, but I will blog about it, albeit a little late, anyway. If only so I can read it back it later on ! 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