It's a pity you didn't bother to read the first dozen or so pages of this thread, because if you had, you could have saved yourself the effort of writing this horribly ignorant post.

Somer hung himself by trying to engage in RMT for the second time. End of story.

Blackstone's Principle. The phrasing I prefer is: "It is better that a hundred guilty men go free than a single innocent be punished. For if innocence is no defense, then the common man will cry, 'What value hath virtue?' "

That said, I stand by my statement that you are the only one calling for your head:



The rest of us seem quite content to see the actual malfeasance punished, and let the dupes walk.

Minor quibble: I believe you mean 'tiresome'.

Substantive reply: As a point, right now we have absolutely no evidence that CCP forced Somer to shut Blink down. He did that. He is the only one who destroyed the part of his operation that wasn't breaking any rules. By his own words this decision was his. That's not speculation. That's what he said, on his site.

To assert anything else is speculation.

"When elephants start to fight, the grass will always smashed the ground"

Somer vs CCP.. The grass is the innocents K1ng Splurge talks about.

This is just the case.

I wont believe that CCP is %100 innocent, also Somer did things against some rules. It is obvious. They should not drop the ball because Somer closes its doors.

The party who punish the guilty is the one also a part of the problem. THat makes me thinkg that If they will be fair or not... I except them to be righteous, and treat Somer like every other RMT'er. That at least, maybe calm the community and they could gain a wee bit trust that they lost during the process.

That's right. However, the mail chain that Somer published in his defense (and in violation of the ToS, I might add) doesn't actually defend him - in fact, it shows that what he got approved by CCP doesn't match what he actually implemented later. (Also since this isn't a criminal trial, we don't need evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, and the evidence we do have suggests that the fault lies with Somer.)

No, Somer RMTing hasn't affected me. Neither has Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme, and he was quite widely known as a philantropist as well. Still doesn't mean he didn't break the rules and shouldn't be punished for it.

To rephrase your devils advocate proposition slightly "Would the discovery of a legit way to RMT isk for $ out weight the good SomerBlink has done for the community and players?".

CCP had two choices, they could either declare the scheme legit and watch as every RMTer in the game moves to some variation of this scheme, or they had to declare the scheme not allowed, close it down and hand out appropriate punishment.