Any word on this all applying to SOMER yet?

CCP - making a statement will stop conspiracy theories - just a hint of advice there m8s.

Let me try it this way - although I doubt he will see the letter:


Hilmar,

When we sat together at the charity dinner you told me how the monocle incident impacted you and you basically said that you felt you hadn't really had your pulse on what the player's wanted. In a way, what you said to me, was that as the CEO you need to take things that upset your players seriously, even if on the surface they seem silly.

I interpreted that further to be a statement of how unique EVE players are. There are so many checkpoints on the way to playing this game, so many points where players can self select out that each voice must be taken seriously. The market base is just too small to dismiss anyone. I mean think about who plays eve. To play eve someone:

1) needs to want to play a space MMO.
2) needs to want to pay a monthly subscription for a space MMO.
3) needs to want to pay a monthly subscription for a TEN YEAR OLD space MMO.
4) needs to want to pay a monthly subscription for a ten year old space MMO that is hard.
5) needs to want to pay a monthly subscription for a ten year old space MMO that is hard and requires work to generate content.
6) Lastly, they need to want to pay a monthly subscription for a ten year old space MMO that is hard, requires work to generate content AND is notoriously ruthless.

It's a pretty select bunch you arrive at once people pass all of those check points. A loyal group and a group willing to pay out big time, but also not a group that will tolerate any foolishness. Your player base is populated by doctors, lawyers, accountants, professors, coaches, businessmen, programmers, engineers and game designers, not to mention countless military personnel. You have a player base of high functioning, intelligent and observant people who are, as you know from hiring them, more than capable of working for your company.

NONE of them, however, not one - is about to pay a monthly subscription for a ten year old space MMO that is hard, requires work to generate content, and is notoriously ruthless BUT...

also happens to be one where the devs clearly violate the barrier between player and dev/designer/judge and in doing so defend it with ridiculous statements about "trust" that over a dozen of your players were able to debunk in less than 6 hours - and we aren't even being payed to do this.

So it insults our intelligence when you at CCP go silent on this. It's bad crisis management, it's bad customer service, and it does nothing to help you or the player base. I have been told that this may be how "things are done" in Iceland. That's fine, but your customers are not primarily Icelandic, and so you need to learn to do business in a way that suits THEM.

Others have posted your words from your blog after monoclegate, and I remember what you said to me at the charity dinner. And now, I say this as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to EVE and CCP: those words are hollow right now, they are just words. If you meant them - you will speak out and let people know what's going on.

Thank You!

We will, however, continue to support in-game corporations who encourage their members to purchase ETC from BattleClinic Deep Space Supply, and who also give in-game items or ISK to those members as a matter of in-game corporate policy, because in our view this practice does not violate the spirit of CCPGÇÖs rule change.

This is going to need official CCP clarification rather than guesswork from the GTC provider.

If Guard does a funny dev video about it, all is forgiven.

This is going to need official CCP clarification rather than guesswork from the GTC provider.

Requests for exceptions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis

welp

Why isn't this information public? CCP, wtf is going on with your PR team??

Furthermore, the most important question: Is Somer Blink one of the exceptions that has been approved?

Yeah wonder what the chances are that somer will get a exception.

This is going to need official CCP clarification rather than guesswork from the GTC provider.

Everyone except Somer has been asked to stop. Seems pretty clear to me.

lol, what a surprise

Yeah this is a little odd. So you can no longer offer incentive directly, but you're still alowed to do it if you're in a corp and using the link of a corp buddy? Uhu... don't think so.

Let me just park my gambling alt in the gambling sites NEW corp to benefit from 'corporate bonuses' .

On friday theyre going to announce how the whole company was empty because they were on a trip for a week and nobody had an internet connection to speak to people and how they cant figure things out during weekend and please be patient.

Accounts may not be used for business purposes. Access to the System and playing EVE is intended for your personal entertainment, enjoyment and recreation, and not for corporate, business, commercial or income-seeking activities. Business entities and anyone who is acting for or on behalf of a business or for business purposes may not establish an Account, access the System or play EVE. Accessing the System or using the Game for commercial, business or income-seeking purposes is strictly prohibited.

I had heard the EULA was changed to allow this practice. I have recently reviewed it and found that it is against the past and current EULA.



Perhaps they will change the EULA in light of the current scandal, however my first guess is that they will continue to allow Somer to violate the EULA as they are making a killing off of it.

The writing is on the wall. Unfortunately it doesn't have a blue -Dev tag on it just yet....

But apparently before this week the GTC resellers agreement was ruled to supersede the EULA. Or at least that's what I was told by Shattered Crystal.

That's what I heard also. And like I said before, no wonder, because CCP is making MILLIONS off of them.

It just goes to show that you can break any rule if you provide enough of a kickback.

And even get a kickback on your kickback Ishkune style.

All other timecode sellers may as well pack up shop then, just let it be a monopoly.

And the Bonus for buying a GTC increased

http://i.imgur.com/fXUgWMO.png

Woooow like I said- all other GTC sellers may as well pack up shop. Why buy plex anywhere else if you get a bllion to gamble with.

Shameful

I guess greed really is good

And the Bonus for buying a GTC increased

http://i.imgur.com/fXUgWMO.png

well, the text confirms ccp asked blink to stop offering rewards for gtc buys