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Gully Alex Foyle
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Posted - 2014.08.18 10:01:00 -
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'Pure' RMT would be: give me 1$ IRL and I'll give you 50 Million ISK in-game.
This scheme is: give CCP 20$ IRL and I'll give you 50 Million ISK in-game, because CCP will give 1$ IRL to me.
The difference is that CCP is the middleman in the RL cash transfer.
It's not a negligible difference, and if CCP says it's ok then it's ok.
But if CCP says it's ok, then logic would suggest:
1) anybody can do it, not just Somer
2) the PLEX buyback is completely unnecessary, anybody should be free to just give ISK, in-game assets, or both to players that buy PLEX from them
If 1) and 2) don't apply, then yes this is indeed shady.
On a side note, I think all lotteries are stupid and if everybody thought the same, Somer wouldn't even exist. 
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Gully Alex Foyle
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Posted - 2014.08.18 10:13:00 -
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Benny Ohu wrote:a flawed premise, that blink credits can be equated to a real ingame isk value. I'm honestly unfamiliar with Somer Blink mechanics:
. Don't you need ISK to buy these credits?
. Can't you convert the credits back to ISK? If not, how do you 'win' ISK?
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Gully Alex Foyle
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Posted - 2014.08.18 10:45:00 -
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Thanks, Benny. I need to correct my post then:
'Pure' RMT would be: give me 1$ IRL and I'll give you 45 Million ISK in-game.
This scheme is: give CCP 20$ IRL, give me that PLEX and I'll give you back on average 660 Million ISK (80% of a PLEX's ISK worth + 80% of 45 Mil) instead of just 625 Million ISK (80% of a PLEX's ISK worth). Additionally, CCP will also give 1$ IRL to me! Yay! I'm so smart, you're so dumb!
Hmmm... now my personal verdict (fwiw ) has changed.
This is not RMT, it sounds more like a scam actually.
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Gully Alex Foyle
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Posted - 2014.08.18 11:25:00 -
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Tippia, James, I still fail to see the RMT part.
If I want to spend, say, 200$ to get in-game assets:
. CCP gives me 10 PLEX, that I can currently sell in Jita for 7,800 M ISK or so - in-game CASH
. Somer gives me lottery credits worth 8,250 M or so, that I can then expect to convert to in-game CASH at a 80% rate: 6,600 M ISK
Sounds like a lousy deal to me.
If you're saying that Somer is allowed to give in-game incentives to buy PLEX from them while other websites aren't, then I do agree with the 'preferential treatment' part.
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Gully Alex Foyle
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Posted - 2014.08.18 11:52:00 -
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Whelp, my bad for not checking the facts myself. 
If it's now ok (for anyone) to openly give ISK and/or other in-game assets to promote their PLEX reselling, CCP should indeed state it clearly.
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