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Argus Sorn
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Posted - 2014.08.19 16:35:00 -
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This is a thing again?
How surprising since SOMER basically posted on their site after the initial order to cease that they were looking for loopholes.
SOMER is an RMT scam, an RMT scam that has been showered with praise and gifts from CCP and now this backdoor shenanigans goes down.
We told CCP they needed to keep their hands out of SOMER last time - and apparently no one wants to listen. If this was approved by 'someone' that 'someone' needs to be fired this time.
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Argus Sorn
Star Frontiers Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.08.19 16:50:00 -
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I personally love how a CCP VP thinks that it is good practice to give permission for this via email to someone at a '[email protected]' email address. I can only assume that CCP has a name and mailing address for the out of game entity on record (especially since they trusted them with cash value prizes last year).
As I pointed out last year, Somer doesn't do business except as his in game identity and this raises the whole operation into question. His website, unlike for instance Chribba's, is registered to an anonymous entity, and there are no contacts outside of the in game infrastructure. In other words - they are a purely in game entity and folks at CCP should not be giving them special permission to do anything - it's just plain bad business.
I do thank Falcon for a quick response this time - but there seems to be an endemic problem regarding what is and what is not appropriate interactions with what are basically in game entities. CCP's ability to remain unbiased adjudicators of their game is called into question when things like this happen.
And frankly, the fact that it stinks of Markee Dragon, yet again? I am not sure why they are allowed to continue to sell ETC's. How many attempts at supporting RMT does it take? |

Argus Sorn
Star Frontiers Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.08.19 17:02:00 -
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Lauresh Thellere wrote: Sigh, I wrote this cool response about how you're being a **** to people who are exhausted from working their asses off the last day or two and have had little to no sleep but the forums ate it.
I will never support being a complete jerk to anyone - but the people who are working their asses off are only doing it because they didn't take appropriate action a year ago. So while they have my respect for their current work, you have to pardon some of us if we aren't exactly sympathetic. |

Argus Sorn
Star Frontiers Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.08.19 18:04:00 -
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Benny Ohu wrote:loving falcon's realtalk
there are some in the thread talking badly of somer's motivations, and mike azariah asked on page eight 'what do you want to happen?', so here's an opinion
it would be possible, through the investigation and final decision on what action to take, to assume good intent on somer's part (or on the part of whoever was involved in creating this promotion). but i don't think somer should be given that credit. it's not plausible in my mind that this was anything but a deliberate attempt to work an isk->money trade, within the guidelines for gtc selling laid by ccp, and knowlingly against the spirit of those guidelines.
ofc this is almost certainly something everybody's already realised. but i'm going to give my opinion anyway because frankly my opinion is the most important and also i'm great
You are great - for putting it so.
Clearly Somer's intent was RMT. Otherwise, why require that you buy the ETC through Markee Dragon? All they did in reality, is replace SOMER credits with PLEX credits. It doesn't take a genius to see this. CCP needs a serious primer on conflict of interest issues.
It is obvious that no matter what happens, that SOMER and Markee Dragon, as they have implied they would do in various sources, will continually look for loopholes to get away with RMT - they should be banned from EVE and ETC sales respectively. |
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