As far as getting isk as a reward, I think once we get the player market (whenever that is) we'll feel less underwhelmed because we'll have the ability to convert what we cannot use into isk or if we have a corp where we know dedicated players will use a piece of equipment more than me, tradesies. I get specialist weapons in types that I know I'll never use, but wish I could give to a corpmate who could use all he could get.

Other than that, I agree with Aqil in that the win requirement made it very hard for some people. On the days my corp was on, this was an easy requirement, but when alone (2 days), I found it difficult and wishing I could hurry up and win one so I could turn the game off. I'm not a new player so I imagine for newer players, this was just frustrating and even more reason to not continue playing, especially during the holidays. Next time, a 'minimum number of games' might be a better option.

A majority of people saying the rewards are **** are sorely mistaken.
I don't think people understand that not everything can be prototype rewards and just for them.

These rewards are genuinely good and people asking for new items in this event don't have a good grasp on reality.

Since I play solo, I don't have a squad. There was one day it was lose after lose after lose after lose after lose.. Not a single win was won.

This.
But, well, free stuff.


Some of the stuff was great tbqh - the black eagles and quafe suits were very nice. But things like enhanced shield extenders, which aren't used much by anyone, aren't of much use. Perhaps it's simply an issue with how useful some of the items are in game. Few people use fused locus grenades and enhanced shield extenders.

Quafe suits are pretty but I'm not going to spec all those sp's into a Scout just to try one on. I'm already a Min Scout next Time can the Min get some extra nice looking Duct tape to apply to our suits instead? Mabey it could be SOLAR POWERED so we cpild at least get a bit more PG/CPU.

This was my thoughts on the subject.

A handful of low-level gear or a gob of suits I have a bunch of already isn't all that cool.

tl;dr for the link: A reward that'd inspire me to log on would be a couple of militia suits that have different colors than normal. Not even intricate color changes. A palette swap would suffice. No fancy balance breaking gear. Just some warbarge bling would be enough.

I actually pulled up the reward page every day to see what I might be able to get, hoping for some limited cosmetic or "fun" types of items that you'd only be able to pick up once in a year.

This is a simple pool for the community to give CCP a general idea of what you thought of the event through a poll.
http://strawpoll.me/960929

click link, check all that apply and vote.

Which did you vote for and why?


12 Days of Dust Event (December 25th GÇô January 5th)
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=127895

Although maybe they could have skipped the ADV shield extenders for something else.

I remember the Hacked Drop Uplinks I got from the Chromosome Merc Pack (or whatever it was) were incredibly useful, considering that I didn't have any SP to spare on the things.

Full time college student on Christmas break (read broke with nothing better to do), had me logging all of my tons each day looking for a win. Cool for you I spent more time in Dust.
Bad for you...
The prizes may come in useful but they all look like AUR items to me. Which means i'll never have more than 12, so meh.
I've been over exposed to Proto stomping and am really close to being burn out on Dust.
Not one of the items is permanent. Not looking for amazing items, but a bpo of some sort to remember the event would have been awesome. (Maybe a Christmas colored frontline? A "Rudolph" laser rifle... something militia grade and festivish...)
Came really close to missing the event, and wouldn't have even noticed or been upset...

Personally, I'd rather see reward items named iin different ways to make them special, even if they are only ADV items.

Like a heavy suit with something santa implied, or a scout suit in reference to an elf. Maybe even a LAV with references to reindeer.

And then modules could be called different christmas decorations or something. What about santas vs elves where it would be kills in heavy suits vs kills in scout suits? Some creativity would be nice.

If you're going to make it so that we can have santa hats in the future I want all sorts of other religious gear too:
Kwanzaa Candles
Dreidels
Statue of Kali
Incan Sacrificial Altar
Flying Spagetti Monster Plushy
Cathulu Cult Robe
Mobius Brand Cough SyrupGäó (Now in new "not proven to cause blindness" formula)

Really, if this game is going to have items associated with any one religion in it doesn't it seem foolish not to be a little more inclusive. Or how about this, we leave out the whole Christmas themed thing and just make a good game.

Really though my merc wants a Flying Spagetti Monster Plushy for his quarters.

Since I play solo, I don't have a squad. There was one day it was lose after lose after lose after lose after lose.. Not a single win was won.

No one's saying that these items are bad, it's just more that they arent all that interesting. If they were looking for rewards that would inspire somebody who's been around for longer than a couple weeks to log on then the sort of items they were giving out didn't do the trick.

Well, the 12 days each day having a different item to win was okay, but it also encouraged me to only login and play 1-4 matches each day, why play unneeded matches during the holiday times? Also...I was hoping for a special holiday reward for you know actually sticking with Dust 514 it kind of let down not to get one. Mind you the passive boosters for 50% off was very nice (Finally they did this, about damn time) They also had a package for 75% off which was decent, but then again that isn't a holiday themed gift or truly special. I guess what I'm saying is, I wanted an actual gift like you get on Christmas, the other stuff was just nice fluff, but still just fluff.

It's possible my post ended on a more sour note than I had intended, I just think we should have moved past handing out random gear by now. CCP has gotten the same feedback regarding this style of reward structure for a while now but it keeps happening. I'm relatively certain that "More appropriate rewards" was one of the things the community requested quite loudly when CCP had that thread on what we want to see from events, yet here we are.



This is tricky. I think that the win requirement can be very handy as it's not just gear you got, it's gear you won. It is possible to add value to low ISK rewards by adding that condition, even where people resent the necessity if it gets them playing it's not a terrible thing. The problem arises when the gear is not just cheap but also useless. Winning it is like winning one of those paper cracker things people pull on at Christmas. You get a joke and a crown but you don't feel like a winner. Just handing things out wouldn't have made this a better event so much as it would have changed people's complaints, stuff I'll never use stays stuff I'll never use no matter the relative ease with which I acquire it.

My feedback is basically this:

CCP, you were told that better events require more appropriate rewards rather than just randomly selected gear. You were told this repeatedly, some time ago. You failed to incorporate this into your event design philosophy. This event suffered as a result. To do better give us events with either

A: Stuff everyone can use (SP, ISK or possibly LP).

B: Gear tailored to each player.

C: Unique or genuinely rare/desirable items.

D: Some partial combination of the above.

Don't give us events that are flawed in a way we've already explained and then ask why we don't like them, you know why.

Edit: Or events which have a link to EVE lore. They're not for everyone (lets face it, some people don't care) but it wouldn't hurt to have them every once in a while, especially since we had so many during beta where we couldn't choose a side but now we have that ability and it's going to waste.