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

Yeah because god forbid someone has a good idea and makes more money than the average Joe . Whether or not they need the money for server upkeep, I think SOMER had a good thing going and in a troubled economy like today that's something I like to encourage.

damnit, you beat me to the Andrev / Obamacare reference.

Why is everyone hating on Somer?

I don't see what they have done wrong, they were given prizes from CCP and gifted ships from CCP, should they have refused them?

Everything that has gone wrong here is CCP's fault, you guys are just jealous the Somer came up with a good idea before you did.

I don't see the problem here.

They were doing a legal thing.

CCP changed the rules and now it's not legal.

Somer's been in operation for years.

Isn't is funny that once CCP give them some shiny ships all of a sudden everyone 'realises' that what they have been doing is RMT and 'breaking the rules'.

You, and ppl like you, make me sick. For all the HTFU and WOW is that way crap that gets spewed on this forum, never have I seen such a collection of entitled, self-important whiners. For the vast majority of Eve players, this SomerBLINK nonsense has exactly ZERO impact on their game.


Please, CCP, don't mistake the forum pussies for the Eve player base. Most of us could care less.

I need 500mil for an orca, can i haz ur stuff?!

I am on your side hun.

I am going to stay for at least the release of Rubicon since it is supposed to usher in a new phase of player control according to CCP's word at fanfest and on the site.

In view of the fact that you now know you can trust a sister in the struggle I would be glad to hold a portion of your stuff in escorw for you. Not much maybe 800 million in isk and another 500 million is ships, BPO's and any other goodies laying around.

PM in game and lets get this rolling.

No I wouldnt. Why would I? So someone got away with something...whether he got away with or not doesnt change my situation. Why should I be worried about what happens to someone else? See I understand in life that sometimes other people get things I don't (or get away with things I wouldn't) I also know that I have gotten many many things in my life that most people will never get. I have plenty of stuff to worry about my my life without having to worry about what other people get.

I mean just look in game...I know I will probably never fly a titan into some of these giant battles with PL...never get to lord over masses of peons like CFC...never get to do any of the things the really big alliances do...but it doesn't bother me. They have something I don't, they get away with things I couldnt (thinking about some FW expliot I somewhat remember reading about a while back where nobody was punished) and I don't care. I play to have fun and when it ceases to be fun I unsubsribe and go play something else. So far I have yet to have someone breaking victimless rules affect me having fun.

And I am not arguing otherwise. They did F' this thing up. They took a look at the issue, and changed their policy to fix the F-up. They ended bonuses for GTC. But nope, that isn't good enough. The 10-day implementation period, nope, that ain't right, gotta rage, gotta cry. The Whine and Whine and Whine continues.

Frankly, I would have been surprised if Somer did anything different than what they are doing. So many posts about they are taking advantage, they are spitting in the face of the Eve playerbase, "It's just wrong, what they are doing . . . ", etc. THIS IS EVE. WTF GAME ARE YOU PLAYING?

..."ban fire, it burn houses"....Yea thats criminal RMT. But what about legal RMT like running an EVE casino from which CCP receives a cut??

Not forgetting that you cannot prove that any of Somer's activities have affected PLEX prices?

Not forgetting that Amazon's PLEX screw up had more measurable, and albeit temporary, influence on PLEX in 15 minutes than Somer had in it's entire existence?

Not forgetting that you don't actually play the game because you much prefer the forum warrior environment of the forums?

Not forgetting that you're still irrelevant. What am I not forgetting, exactly? Begone, troll.

If you actually formed a bead of sweat on your forehead when someone says they're going to blow up your pixels, then you need professional help. If podding is a "threat" to you, then please take your carebear with you as you exit eve.

Name calling isn't name calling if it's pertinent. The term "troll" is justified in this case. Calling a spade, a spade.

Got a problem with that? Tough.

RMT has been around since MMORPGs were created. It is better controlled and regulated by CCP better than any game developer in history. As it stands, other developers are adopting CCP's PLEX model for in-game currency.

Wildstar - Carbine Studios - Here

Runescape

Pathfinder Online

Are you actually reading these posts or are you just not able to wrap your head around the connection between RMT and PLEX?

I think there are a lot of people confusing this act as an act of defiance against CCP when in fact it comes across more as an act of defiance to the tin foil crowd that seems to be growing in numbers around here...

CCP 'engages' in it themselves by owning the game, and being its developer, and collecting sub fees.

CCP can do as it pleases, the people who don't like that should (imo only) vote with money not forum posts IMO.