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!

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

Somer blink have reacted to being told to cease their RMT activity by offering even more credit per purchase. This is beyond taking the ****.
The 10 days was to give them time to take down their operation, not to have 10 days to push a bigger marketing campaign.
This is clearly Somer acting in defiance against the ruling that has been made and a clear indicator that they should be shut down immediately.

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.

Way to miss the point I was making, my man

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.

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

isn't that completely in the spirit of EVE?

the issue is being resolved. the reaction, while not classy, seems kinda rational.

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.

You are doing Black Thorne proud, supporting a "Redacted" business that needs to be removed from EvE.

You might want to check on their forum posting policy

I'm not posting on behalf of my corp, you tool. I think that's pretty obvious.

And you do realize that your 'Redacted' business is done by CCP themselves and has been an official part of the game for almost 5 years now?

Anyone who is opposing any form of 'redacted' should be raging at CCP just the same as SOMER. Yet somehow that's not happening.

Well no, RMT was always against the rules.
The only question was "is what Somer doing RMT" and the answer is a resounding yes. The fact that they got away with it for so long doesn't mean the rule didn't exist. So yes, they can be punished.

Not to mention that as they run it to make money, that means their accounts are being used for business purposes, which is a second rule violation.

This latest is them try to grab as much from their RMT before they are completely forced to stop. CCP gave them 10 days as a gesture of goodwill, as not all sites are that easy to get updated swiftly, depending on time allowances. But rather than do what all the other sites did and stop ASAP, they've chosen to purposely run a firesale instead.

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.

Now we have Somer doing the same, just in a more round about manner.

1B isk bonus?!

OK, I never got involved in the debate before, but 1B isk per card bought is definitely RMT level.

Extremely disrespectful from Somer.

Hm, you'd think CCP would keep a close eye on stuff like this. Maybe check their website, play a few Blinks? Certainly before writing a spotlight about them and giving them tons of goodies to give away. So yeah I think it's pretty safe to assume CCP had a very clear understanding of the setup Somer uses. I refuse to believe that not a single CCP employee ever visited their website and not noticed the credit for GTC thing.

By extension that also means CCP didn't mind and thus approved their setup. And THAT by extension means that Somer's entire thing was legal or at the very least not illegal. It's really not rocket science.

You can then rage at CCP for showing favoritism and stuff, but don't blame Somer for something CCP did or didn't. They got the OK from CCP and carried on like normal. If you want to rage at someone, rage at CCP.

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.

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.

I refuse to believe that not a single CCP employee ever visited their website and not noticed the credit for GTC thing.

By extension that also means CCP didn't mind and thus approved their setup. And THAT by extension means that Somer's entire thing was legal or at the very least not illegal. It's really not rocket science.

I don't see the problem here.

They were doing a legal thing.

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

*trips over room to find CC*