Lets see, CCP has been to his stream many times and his accounts are active. And they have profiled him and sent their viewers to watch his stream.

Logic dictates that CCP then condones RMT. Are you saying that CCP allows RMT?

Logic and truth....how dare I.

Please post where CCP has stated that SomerBlink is RMT and they no longer support it.

We want to address this in our upcoming process discussion surrounding 3rd party sponsorship. We want to provide as much support for our community as possible, and one of the most meaningful ways to do that is with special, rare or limited edition items on Tranquility. We need to investigate whether that approach is ultimately positive for EVE before we make a decision about whether future item giveaways should be done only directly from CCP.

Many thanks for all of your patience during this time and we hope this explains some of our thinking. We would also like to address the role of SOMER Blink in this change. They have had three years of constantly delivering on every blink, blast and bonk they have organized. Clearly, this is going to change in this circumstance and this is not their fault in the slightest. We are aware players have played blinks to get involved in the lottery and there is nothing we can do to reverse those transactions. We believe the replacement prizes are of such a high value as to be equal compensation.

CCP Navigator addressed this question, as well as whether or not CCP will be moving these sort of rare item giveaways from fansites to CCP-operated platforms:


Where does it say that CCP is no longer supporting them? Only thing they mentioned was the Rare item changed.

Please post where CCP has stated that SomerBlink is RMT and they no longer support it.

We want to address this in our upcoming process discussion surrounding 3rd party sponsorship. We want to provide as much support for our community as possible, and one of the most meaningful ways to do that is with special, rare or limited edition items on Tranquility. We need to investigate whether that approach is ultimately positive for EVE before we make a decision about whether future item giveaways should be done only directly from CCP.

Many thanks for all of your patience during this time and we hope this explains some of our thinking. We would also like to address the role of SOMER Blink in this change. They have had three years of constantly delivering on every blink, blast and bonk they have organized. Clearly, this is going to change in this circumstance and this is not their fault in the slightest. We are aware players have played blinks to get involved in the lottery and there is nothing we can do to reverse those transactions. We believe the replacement prizes are of such a high value as to be equal compensation.

CCP Navigator addressed this question, as well as whether or not CCP will be moving these sort of rare item giveaways from fansites to CCP-operated platforms:


Where does it say that CCP is no longer supporting them? Only thing they mentioned was the Rare item changed.

Please post where CCP has stated that SomerBlink is RMT and they no longer support it.

ITT: Mad Ani's alt defending his RMT operation by pretending Somergate never happened.

Can we call this next scandal Trilbygate?

Why not CCP DBRB? Now here's a man who doesn't just stream Eve content, he provides it too.

Trilbygate: Is it a trilby? Is it a fedora? Either way he looks like a douche

I believe he confirmed during the KW- stream that it was indeed a Trilby.

You have to go back and watch the whole stream recording to catch it, because he gets quite mad if people ask him questions that he's already answered at some point in the past.

CCP obviously has no issues with Ani or Somer as they are still involved with them.

I know this is contrary to what you are trying to say but you are going to have to do a lot better than making up things and posting them here.

Fact: In less than an hour of Ani going live the amount of people watching Eve on Twitch has almost doubled. Must be making all the haters froth at the mouth.

Fact: In less than an hour of Ani going live the amount of people watching Eve on Twitch has almost doubled. Must be making all the haters froth at the mouth.

THIS JUST IN FROM MAD ANI'S STREAM CHAT:

Tode_tuu: One guy was bragging on how he got creating an account down to 9s so he can troll here on the forums. He was all proud about it and frothing at the mouth.

For someone who doesn't like the stream you seem to hang out there a lot.....)

Honestly speaking, I never watched his stream without Adblock.

CCP obviously has no issues with Ani or Somer as they are still involved with them.

I know this is contrary to what you are trying to say but you are going to have to do a lot better than making up things and posting them here.

Fact: In less than an hour of Ani going live the amount of people watching Eve on Twitch has almost doubled

Fact: In less than an hour of Ani going live the amount of people watching Eve on Twitch has almost doubled. Must be making all the haters froth at the mouth.

ITT: Mad Ani's alt defending his RMT operation by pretending Somergate never happened.

Can we call this next scandal Trilbygate?

The Fact is he provides streams from fights, events and make some roams and highsec races. Yes there are others who are also streaming, but not in this quantity and quality and furthermore not so many big fights. He misses only a few because of timezone or private issues. The truth is no one can match his activity in the moment.

The programm for the fans is ok - Sometimes there are raffles for the viewers or subscribers GÇô some argue there are more for the subscribers but thats ok because they pay real money for his stream.

But also for non EvE-Players ani provides infos GÇô yes he must repeat himself over and over but thats normal when outsiders are watching the stream.

So over all the advertisement for EvE and CCP is high. His stream is even linked on normal gaming sites.

So hire him as an independent moderator so he can focus all his time on the streams. I hope the GÇPeve weeklyGÇ£ would appear as video show

No, it's RMTing. This sort of stealth RMTing has already been tackled during somergate.

If you pay for even a chance to get ISK (regardless of whether he give out ISK to non subbers) he's RMT dealing.

I mean, I don't give a **** what he knows and doesn't, but it's pretty frustrating to turn on his stream and see him talking absolute **** to new players who don't know any better than to think he's an expert. Worse still, are the white knights who are (nearly invariably) completely clueless highsec carebears who leap to his defense and ensure that a blanket of ignorance is the comfort needed.

By all the logic going on in this thread, CCP should also hire the editorial staff of TMC.

1. That could have something to do with him until recently being unemployed - of course he then has more times to sit on his couch and stream "Eve Online - A bad game" than somebody who goes to work from 9-5.

2.Which is literally the same scheme Somer had: pay $$$ - get stuff.

3. He often provides inaccurate info, doesn't know tactics or fleet compositions, doesn't know sov-warfare. But instead of asking people who know, he just outright bans those that point out errors. Also, he often says stuff like "Just watch my older videos, I won't explain this again".

4.There already is a adequate "reward" for doing what he does - a media/fan site account.