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Jythier Smith
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Posted - 2013.11.01 14:05:00 -
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I don't see the problem here.
They were doing a legal thing.
CCP changed the rules and now it's not legal.
Suddenly, 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.
Say you bought 10 cars to sell, and then someone tells you you won't be able to sell those cars in 10 days - you would sell them as cheap as you could to get your money back.
Now, given that what they were doing was really close to being illegal, and probably was against the spirit of the rules, this should have been shut down a long time ago with bans instead of being given in-game items for it. But it wasn't, it was allowed, so now 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. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
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Posted - 2013.11.01 14:56:00 -
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If it already was illegal, then why wasn't it stopped? Why did the rules have to change?
I'm just too new to care about Somer Blink at all. Only hear about it in articles I've been reading to get to know EVE better. Turns out there are a bunch of morons playing EVE who really want to gamble... well, just undock your ships and you're gambling already.
Who didn't know what Somer Blink was doing that they were 'exposed'? Other affiliates were also doing similar things. They had to change the policy to make it illegal. When you change a policy, you don't get to go back and ban someone for breaking that policy in the past, and you give time to allow people to match the new policy. If you don't, you're a bad business partner.
Whether it should have been legal or not is a different answer, of course. Of course it should have been against the rules and CCP should have been enforcing it that way, but they chose to interpret their policy as allowing it, which is their right to do. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
Harmonic Convergence
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Posted - 2013.11.01 15:01:00 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:Jythier Smith wrote:If it already was illegal, then why wasn't it stopped? Why did the rules have to change?
I'm just too new to care about Somer Blink at all. Only hear about it in articles I've been reading to get to know EVE better. Turns out there are a bunch of morons playing EVE who really want to gamble... well, just undock your ships and you're gambling already.
Who didn't know what Somer Blink was doing that they were 'exposed'? Other affiliates were also doing similar things. They had to change the policy to make it illegal. When you change a policy, you don't get to go back and ban someone for breaking that policy in the past, and you give time to allow people to match the new policy. If you don't, you're a bad business partner.
Whether it should have been legal or not is a different answer, of course. Of course it should have been against the rules and CCP should have been enforcing it that way, but they chose to interpret their policy as allowing it, which is their right to do. The didn't change the policy though, they simply put the onus on the GTC resellers to enforce the rules which were not being enforced.
They changed their interpretation of it, which is effectively the same thing. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
Harmonic Convergence
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Posted - 2013.11.01 17:43:00 -
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I think Somer Blink is totally in the wrong by continuing to sell after being informed they need to take it down. They are within their legal rights to do so, but it's reprehensible to continue to do so, and I like that the community is responding to that in the way they should. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
Harmonic Convergence
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Posted - 2013.11.01 18:19:00 -
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Baali Tekitsu wrote:Draydin Warsong wrote:Baali Tekitsu wrote:Draydin Warsong wrote:TharOkha wrote:What is so bad about RMT? This^^^ You can already RMT by buying directly from CCP. This is the reason I find it impossible to give any less of a crap what somer does. But you cant sell your ISK and get $$$Gé¼Gé¼Gé¼ and thats what SOMER is doing (and making people upset). And? I dont play Eve to make money...I play to have a good time. Why exactly should I care how much someone else in Eve makes outside the game? Besides it would hardly be worth it for the amount of $ they got/get anyways. So you call over $250k hardly worth it? The issue is that while it is 100% L3G1T for them to do it other people using the same mechanic get threatened and banned.
Chump change, my friend. All EVE players are billionaires. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
Harmonic Convergence
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Posted - 2013.11.04 11:32:00 -
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They spent all their money giving out free plex to advertise at Vegas. That investment probably won't pay too many dividends. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
Harmonic Convergence
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Posted - 2013.11.04 15:10:00 -
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You're probably right. |
Jythier Smith
WATERSHIP HOLDINGS
Harmonic Convergence
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Posted - 2013.11.04 15:56:00 -
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Technically, if CCP wanted to, they could make a separate agreement with Somer Blink allowing them to do things that we do not, but I hope they would charge more for that sort of license.
Also, they probably shouldn't do that.
But they CAN. |
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