wow.
even if you like somer this is reason enough to boycott them entirely.

somer you lost, the rules are being enforced, and theyve kindly given you a grace period to give you time to change the site. you are abusing that and showing that its all about the money not about the community. sickening.

Hmm anyone have a link to where CCP said this is wrong and gave them a grace period?

Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.

The 10 days is not given so they can make as much as they can. It's given so that they have time to make the technical changes to stop.
They are simply showing they have the ability to stop at any time, but want to push sales.

And I'll stop complaining when Somer are either shut down or they start looking out for the best interests of the community and not lining their pockets.

I await the day that an explanation is released by CCP, on this matter.
I really am genuinely frustrated... what can i/we do though? Smashing a structure in Jita is not going to help, nor is cutting our nose off to spike our face (unsubbing).

In the nosey gamer article it was stated somer gets 8% kick back not 5% so its attually $2.80 a GTC or $840,000 if they can get rid of it all.

Ah yes, but it wasn't actually against any rules until CCP changed those same rules. If you want to believe the skewed rationalizations posted around the forums then feel free to do so. But the fact is that is that up until a few days ago, what SOMER was doing was perfectly legal within the EULA and the reseller agreement. And you can't punish someone for doing something that is legal. Simple as that.

That's an idiotic comparison...

You really are a shill, aren't you?

What's the next line you guys are going to spew? Here's a good one! "Andrew and/or Somerset can't get on the Obamacare website so they need this extra income to pay for those awful out-of-pocket healthcare expenses." There you go -- run with it!

And the SOMER people are getting so shameless that I am surprised they they haven't used it yet. Seriously.

This is what makes me sick.

I think because of BLINKS actions, they should be shutdown permanently. Its apparent that they are all for the money and not for our beloved community/game.
What can we do to stop this?
CCP Please act now, we want BLINK to receive a proper punishment.

I don't see the problem here.

they have a bunch of worthless stock (ISK).

So they are trying to sell it at cut-rate prices so they recoup their investment. Just like any business.

we have to allow them 10 days to get their business in order again, which may include getting rid of as much ISK as they can to convert to real money.

*trips over room to find CC*

My favorite part about these threads is finding all the Somer alts and shills and writing their names down for later to hand over to Marmite or some other corp.

The Question is now; what happens next? I can see no other way to deal with this matter, other than a permanent ban for BLINK and its associates. What other punishment is there?

What do you think CCP should do to solve this matter?

A true pillar of the community right there. I'm glad the wonderful people of Somer Blink who so selflessly contribute are getting the recognition and Ishukone Watch Scorpions they deserve.

/s

Would you also loot shops when there's a riot going on? No security, window's already broken... Strike while the iron is hot an all that...

Or an old lady falls asleep on the bus, and a few notes are lying half out of her purse. Take them right? The iron is hot!

Being able to do something and profit doesn't automatically make it the right thing to do.

Way over the line buddy

https://twitter.com/somersetmahm/status/396090063248818176

If it is true, this makes me sick. Genuinely sick.

Most of us could care less.

Somer's Practice has always been against the EULA.

Yet, here we have Somer proclaim they already know the ruling. Meanwhile, the only communication from CCP has been to GTC Re-sellers, and not a word to the community. Somer multiplies the deal (potential money for CCP were Somer to fully cash out would be in excess of $5m USD) to squeeze out every last drop.

We, the players are left incredulous, staring slack-jawed at the screen with one of those slight head-tilts that implies one's belief this may all be a bad dream.

WAKE THE **** UP CCP!!!!

I bought 4 60 day GTC giving me 5 billion in blink credit,
converted it to 7 plexes and a zealot contrated to jita lol

Still nothing from CCP.