I'm just saying legitimate privacy concerns and security process issues trump suspicions.

Revealing details on investigations (whether the investigated party is proven guilty or innocent) is not an acceptable practice, and believe me, you don't want it to be.

Revealing details of how and when the investigations are done (outside of your own security team, internal affairs, and upper management) undermines their effectiveness.

You know what I'm saying.

Just Posting this for "told you so" for screenshot sake

Prediction: around one or two years from now expect a "SOMER BLINK: How to Scam CCP" thread detailing how it was set up as a gambling scam that ended up working well, then WILDEST DREAMS when they got CCP endorsed while one dude fills his alts up with trillions of ISK.

i'm calling it now... CCP doing ANYTHING for ANY entity in game is a bad idea, they should stay the **** out of the sandbox and stop giving some kids bigger buckets.

imagine if Eve Investment Bank, how totally successful and legit it was for ages, imagine if EIB had been endorsed and advertised and helped out by CCP?

Well you don't need to imagine it. because thats effectively what could potentially happen here... some dude gives up and pockets trillions of ISK and o7m8's all of eve

You can always find a way, sure. You can set up proxy's, isolate machines, use fake names and email addresses, steal credit cards to use for payment, etc. But at some point you have to realize that (practically speaking) this becomes more work than simply doing something else for your money.

If you've gone to this much trouble to set things up properly you can use that same method to do much more profitable things.

his point is that giving hundreds of billions of ISK to an arbitrary player run operation is dumb as hell and smacks of dev favoritism, he isn't actually expecting CCP to give goonswarm billions of ISK as well

I think at this point, we should.

CCP has already coined Blink as a trustworthy service and the resulting profit is already in Blink's wallet, both in and out of game. It's too late to take any of that back, no matter what CCP's next move is going to be.

The precedent is set.

Of course good sir,

CCP Navigator stated the following in this thread

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=281298&find=unread

"Q3, How do we know we can trust Fansites and third parties to operate fairly and independently?

A3, We have worked with a lot of third party sites in the past such as EVE Radio, BIG Lottery and SOMER Blink. These entities (and others of course) have demonstrated a solid history of trust and reliability. As a result, we can verify that they have been straight and true in their dealings and this should be encouraged."

Hope that helps :)

This is the kind of thing serious real world companies actually have training budgets to prevent.

What makes this Somer guy special?

I am surprised that Goons would misrepresent facts to complain about a situation in which they are not the sole beneficiary. Truly.

Wasn't Somer Blink one of the sponsors of Eve Las Vegas?




And day care centers, don't forget the day care centers.

And legal departments to tell them why they need training budgets to prevent the kind of appearance of impropriety that this creates. From a business standpoint, it's not even about 'did you do anything illegal or unethical?' it's about 'did you give any appearance of doing anything illegal or unethical that might damage our reputation with the customer base?'

We won't need a business plan when CCP hands us trillions of free stuff just for being that awesome.

CCP allready gave you guys free trillions with the tech exploit

CCP allready gave you guys free trillions with the tech exploit

CCP allready gave you guys free trillions with the tech exploit