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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation
The Cursed Few
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Posted - 2013.10.10 22:05:00 -
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End conclusion; the ships have been given out as prizes and as community rewards over 100 times before. Obviously the ships nor their value were EVER an issue before. Anyone screaming this is about the huge value of these ships can buzz off right now.
The core of this entire thing is simple; it's the perceived unfairness in peoples mind where an entity that is already making tons of money is getting tons more money for free. Even though its not tons of money, it's a ship with no real value.
"They don't deserve it! They take peoples money!"
It's a ridiculous statement really. And frankly it disgusts me that players of a game are bashing on the game's developer and ordering them who they can and can not reward. Because again; this isn't about the prizes given out. It never was. It's about who got them.
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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation
The Cursed Few
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Posted - 2013.10.10 22:19:00 -
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As an alternative to giving unique items, why not give people a unique tag or something. In reality what good is a unique ship if you can never show it off? The second you undock in it people just want to kill the thing for teh lulz.
Having a tag by your name somewhere would, at least to me, mean much much more in terms of recognition from CCP than an in-game item ever would. And at least that is something you can easily show off without even trying.
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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation
The Cursed Few
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Posted - 2013.10.15 13:54:00 -
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Thought I would just post this here, since I think it's a valid theory that warrants an answer from CCP:
An in depth explanation as to why SOMER's sceme is deemed legal would be nice, CCP. I understand to confusion it brings to some. But the process is simply this:
1. You buy a GTC from party A (Markee Dragon).
2. Party A then pays a referral commission to party B (SOMER Blink).
3. Party B then gives you 200m in Blink Credit which can be used to play Blinks.
4. Unless you're absolutely stupid/unlucky you will will always win at least something.
5. You cash out the ISK to EVE Online.
You're indirectly giving SOMER Blink money so they can indirectly give you ISK. That's what it basically comes down to and it's probably those two indirectly's that make the entire thing legal.
The transaction between the player and Markee Dragon is legal.
The transaction between Markee Dragon and SOMER is legal.
The transaction between SOMER and the player is legal.
It's really quite an ingenious sceme that treads the boundaries of the EULA very narrowly. The odds of CCP making a complete 180 after all this and declaring this illegal are extremely low. It would mean CCP gave trillions upon trillions of ISK to an RMT sceme so it's very unlikely they will ever say this is illegal.
However, the thing I would like to know is how much Markee Dragon and the guys running SOMER are related to each other? Is SOMER really just using Markee as an affiliate or is there some deeper hidden agreement between them?
Given that Markee Dragon has a huge reputation for running RMT scemes for other MMO's and his name now AGAIN pops up with what is deemed to be an RMT sceme by many players, I wonder if CCP is fully aware of exactly how SOMER and Markee are connected. Some investigation into this is warranted if you ask me. Can CCP confirm, through cross checking IP and mail adresses, that Markee Dragon and SOMER are not actually the same person?
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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation
The Cursed Few
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Posted - 2013.10.16 09:58:00 -
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Gul Amarr wrote:CCP Guard wrote:
A lot of us will be away for EVE Vegas in the coming days and we hope to meet some of you there for a chat.
So basically you're telling us that nobody will receive any rewards after you rewarded eves mafia twice in a row, doing injustice to their competitors (which is every evey eve player, be it a genuine one day old trial or 2003 vet), keeping the price of rewards artificially high. At the same time, you're telling us you can't come up with a proper reply, because you're at a Mafia-sponsored meeting called "friends of the italian opera" in Vegas. Yeah - my faith in CCP has been totally restored  .
You really need to get that broomstick out of your rear end, dude. Mafia? Really? Every single person who ever deposited money to SOMER did so out of their own free will. Don't for a second pretend that they are forcing people to give them money.
This is still a GAME. The ISK involved is virtual and doesn't even exist. The event in Vegas is a real event that is paid with real money by real people by many more than just SOMER.
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TigerXtrm
Black Thorne Corporation
Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2013.11.21 00:11:00 -
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Karak Terrel wrote:Looks like they think this is over. It isn't.
It so is.
But please keep clinging on to that shimmer of hope, it's very amusing 
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