Dear CCP,
You have been scammed by Somer Blink. They are taking you for billions, if not trillions of ISK if you count the uniquely special and uniquely effective vouchsafing PR,
that you already gave them for free. This is called favoritism. Just like when T20 gave BoB T2 BPOs, except
worse, because you do not even realize you got scammed.
Let me reiterate: You already got scammed, and publicly announced that you're going to continue falling for it.Since apparently half the EVE playerbase
including CCP had either never heard of this particular scam, allow me to enlighten you:
http://www.fraud.org/penny-auctionsI never made a big deal of it before because I simply assumed that most other EVE players realized it was a scam and just liked blowing ISK on it. I have never given them 0.01 ISK and never will
because Somer Blink is just another EVE scam!I, and every other player that knows a penny auction scam when they see it has been denied access to new ships. Yay, favoritism because CCP fell for a scam!
That was a super important paragraph sentence, so please read it again.
Let me reiterate, since CCP is apparently rather thick: CCP fell for an in game scam, and fell so hard that they planned to resurrect a part of in game history and give to them for their exclusive profit.
And since I
refuse to become a
SomerSuckerGäó I am effectively denied even the
chance to get one of these ships because I am more scam resistant than CCP Navigator and the rest of the devs who are too gullible to figure out that Somer Blink is a just another penny auction scam with a couple of insignificant twists on it to further obscure the scam. To say nothing of the people who have been banned from Somer Blink, the result of which is CCP treating even more of their customers unfairly with respect to Somer Blink.
But it is still a scam.The
only way to fix this is to stop pimping Somer Blink revoke any special privileges that they scammed you out of, publicly admit Somer Blink is just another EVE scam, stop falling for it, and never use them again.
If you're thinking "Xaen cannot possibly be correct!" Read below, then read this post again. Keep reading it until you get it through your thick skulls that Somer Blink is just a penny auction scam, EVE style, that CCP fell for hook, line, and Golden Magnate.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.GÇöMark Twain