I'd agree to it if it wasn't an idea breaking the rules. Unlike SOMER some of us actually follow the rules.

Sometimes the symbolic value of an act is all that really matters.

If you don't remember Dianabolic's posts in the context of this thread then you will of course not realize the significance of bragging about having CCP employees on your IM.

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'.

I'm sure CCP are really happy that you have figured out a player run organisation that's been doing the same thing for years is actually breaking the rules.

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'.

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

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

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'.

I'm sure CCP are really happy that you have figured out a player run organisation that's been doing the same thing for years is actually breaking the rules.

Aaaaaaand the T20 link is made.

Way to cover your bases CCP.

you make me sick CCP.

Damn, really wanted to read that devblog but like so many others (the $1000 pants one) it got "missing".
What was it again "the winners will write the past"?

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!!!!

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.

CCP look foolish having vouched for them.

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.

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

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

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

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

Honestly, a lot of us would happily RMT our stuff if it was legal. So CCP had a decision to make. enforce the rule against this form of RMT or allow us all to do it. They chose to enforce their rules. So that's that.

By the way, are you a Somer shill or a butthurt Somer user?

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.

Sometimes tweets are made to disappear, like stoolies who talked too much. Just in case, I took down the testimony.

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

Seriously? Because they Skyped with someone from CCP? Surely you're joking?

Are you going to wildly vomit when I tell you that the organisers of EVE Vegas probably also had direct contact with some of the devs? Or... OH NO! The Mittani! For his role on the CSM and because he was asked as a speaker on EVE Vegas...

Christ the feeling of entitlement is so big around this place it's blocking out the sun at this point. If you do special things in EVE (good or bad in your own opinion) you get special treatment. Bloggers get FREE (yes free, as in no money involved, SHOCKING!) media accounts. Are you going to vomit over that as well because not everyone has that privilege?

All in all it's very similar to this thing you might know, called life. Life is not fair and neither is EVE, both in and outside of the game. Don't like it? Do something about it.

P.S. Whining on a forum does not constitute 'doing something'.

Read the EULA, Genius. It isn't your stuff. It never was your stuff.

As for SomerBLINK, however screwed up the arrangement became, in the end, I believe CCP saw SomerBLINK GTC sales as another way to get and keep players in the game, another way to promote Eve Online. Was it haphazard and ill-thought out? yea, a lot of it was. And in the end, CCP changed their policy. End of story.

But my god, users of this forum want this to be fricken' Watergate. Give me a break.

As for being a Somer shill, I've never played SB, I've never bought GTC or anything else from them, and I generally consider gambling as a way to part fools from their money (or ISK, as the case may be.) I could care less if they vanished into thin air. I'm just bloody tired of the bitching and moaning, the tin-foil hattery, the absurd accusations and ideations of conspiracy and back-room deals.

Could CCP have handles this better? yea, probably. Could the community have reacted with a little more maturity and a little less self-entitlement? Judging by this and nearly ever other issue facing Eve players, probably not. That such a thing is true doesn't make it any less pathetic.

Really? They just lost one account over it -- one who told them exactly why in the cancellation form, too. I cancelled my other account just now. This one will be cancelled shortly. I've been thinking about doing it and sitting on the fence but I've made my mind up.

And no, no one can have my stuff. It will rot away.