Just BAN this insane illegal isk pumping abomination called gambling sites... All of them!

I cannot think of any other game balance breaker in such huge proportions than this - sadly - sanctioned and even rewarded form of "to your face" cheating.

How can CCP who is so meticulous about even tiny exploitations let this facade go - is beyond all reason.

Out of game skills of running an organized website to suck insane amount of isk with zero mastery of in game skills??

WTF??! This is exploitation!

Just BAN this insane illegal isk pumping abomination called gambling sites... All of them!

I cannot think of any other game balance breaker in such huge proportions than this - sadly - sanctioned and even rewarded form of "to your face" cheating.

How can CCP who is so meticulous about even tiny exploitations let this facade go - is beyond all reason.

Out of game skills of running an organized website to suck insane amount of isk with zero mastery of in game skills??

WTF??! This is exploitation!

Just BAN this insane illegal isk pumping abomination called gambling sites... All of them!

I cannot think of any other game balance breaker in such huge proportions than this - sadly - sanctioned and even rewarded form of "to your face" cheating.

How can CCP who is so meticulous about even tiny exploitations let this facade go - is beyond all reason.

Out of game skills of running an organized website to suck insane amount of isk with zero mastery of in game skills??

WTF??! This is exploitation!

Please explain why it is both insane and illegal without all the hyperbole and frothing at the mouth.

Insane, because of the huge amount of isk being made (shifted between players) without doing anything <- the scam (not illegal though)

Illegal, because you are not using the eve client but a "3rd party tool" which is not run by ccp

As someone who knows of nobody who has received free secret stuff from CCP or anything remotely connected: Can we grow up please? So what, you didn't get a ship. Big whoop. They only affect the economy if you let them. Aka, if you choose to buy them. Otherwise, they're worth nothing more than the hangar shiny they're supposed to be.

That' an easy fix which I lay out here:

They can just issue the original owners of the Ishukone Watch Scorpion a free gold magnate. Present owners of gold magnates can be offered free all expense paid trips to Iceland to compensate. If said trip winners are already the recipient of an all expense paid trip to Iceland conflicting with identical dates, then there may be a $25k cash option, which should not be construed as CCP trading in game assets directly for cash. This is different. If one person is eligible for more than one $25k cash option, then the player may, at his sole discretion, add the cash awards then multiply by 2. There are limited prizes available. For a tie-breaker mechanism, we have decided to choose a random description of a corp. If your corp matches this random description, you will win. We just drew the criteria out of a hat. If the first word in your corporation starts with an S, you win. If there is a further tie... Oh **** it, if your corp is spelled Somer Blink, you win. Wow we have a winner. I can'[t believe it- it's a friend of mine. What are the odds, with all these safeguards we put in place?

I still don't get the requirement that I register on a third party website and give them my information to win a CCP prize. That would be like the president of the United States saying hey, this whole buying health insurance thing. Well, I have a buddy who works at XYZ Health Insurance Corp, and as president of the United States, I am telling you that the US government 100% supports this dude and knows he's a swell guy. So um, what you um need to um do is give my buddy all your personal info and I will enter you into a drawing to win free healthcare. Because of all the things this XYZ Health Insurance Corp does for the community, such as supporting the economy by buying TV ads, paying for lobbyists, etc, I am giving the employees of those companies free healthcare 100% funded by the dime of the taxpayer.

You are upset at that? Let me go talk to some high priced consultants and get back with you in the next um, well sometime, and I'll tell you what you want to hear after we do some poll testing. Um gotta run, don't forget to pay your taxes due soon!

edit* obviously I am kidding. But Andski and countless others have used analogies like this to drive the point home... the outrage is because of what was done not how it was communicated. Let's all understand that we can laugh about these things along with CCP and move forward. If anyone rage quits this game over a single decision or series of terrible decisions, instead of because they no longer like the... game.... then I don't know what to tell those people.

--Spawning people billions of ISK is wrong
--Spawning people billions of ISK in the form of otherwise unobtainable ships is wrong
--Spawning people billions of ISK because they are already super rich is wrong
--Spawning people billions of ISK secretly is wrong
--Somer Blink is not a community website
--Somer Blink is not a charity
--Somer Blink is a business
--"We got away with it before" is not an acceptable reason to continue doing the wrong thing
--There were and are far more deserving people than Somer
--Said people do not deserve billions of ISK anymore than Somer did

QFT and you go guy and/or girl!

The fact that it will be a "clarification" rather than a correction of a mistake is bad enough.

I don't need you to clarify anything, I can see what you did. I don't like what you did. You can't clarify me into liking it.

Seems relevant...

LOL nice

Please explain why it is both insane and illegal without all the hyperbole and frothing at the mouth.

It's fun to see how the posting dynamic changes when it's a dev thread. c'mon trolls, where you at?

Just an FYI, at the end of month CCP will be spawing rare ships, clothing and multi-billion ISK implants to certain people in secret.

Citation required.

it might be less problematic to give out-of-game items.

Just an FYI, at the end of month CCP will be spawing rare ships, clothing and multi-billion ISK implants to certain people in secret.

What if they sell the out-of-game items for cash, and use that cash to convert PLEX to ISK?

--Spawning people billions of ISK is wrong
--Spawning people billions of ISK in the form of otherwise unobtainable ships is wrong
--Spawning people billions of ISK because they are already super rich is wrong
--Spawning people billions of ISK secretly is wrong
--Somer Blink is not a community website
--Somer Blink is not a charity
--Somer Blink is a business
--"We got away with it before" is not an acceptable reason to continue doing the wrong thing
--There were and are far more deserving people than Somer
--Said people do not deserve billions of ISK anymore than Somer did

bullshit