After careful consideration and consultation with CSM9, who have displayed an outstanding level of support in assisting with this issue, CCP has taken the decision to permanently ban the founder of SOMER Blink from EVE Online across all accounts, with immediate effect.

Following the promotion, CCP no longer regards SOMER Blink as a fair or legitimate service within the EVE Community. We are unable to provide reimbursements as per section 1.3 of our reimbursement policy, so itGÇÖs good to see that SOMER Blink is shutting down in a controlled and stable manner, and that players will be able to withdraw their ISK and / or assets.
While we will be monitoring this closely, we have no intention of interfering with the process, as we feel that allowing players to be able to have their assets and/or ISK returned by SOMER Blink will is an important part of bringing this situation to a solid resolution.

I'm confused. If all his accounts are banned immediately, how are you going to "allow" him to return the ISK to anyone?

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It's called delegation, you pass all the work off to your minions while taking all of the credit and raking in the cash. It's a fairly common business practice.

don't forget passing down all the blame

that is absolutely crucial

I am waiting to see more requests about what items got banned with somers accounts. I'm not sure if CCP releases that type of info but look for prices on assumed banned ships to jump.

Actually the promotion as it was enacted was not approved by us--nor was it the same as one they had discussed with us previously. That part is in the paragraph after the one you quoted.

So what you quoted above is us saying that we didn't give permission to SOMER Blink to say the non-approved promotion was approved by us.

As, one would imagine would be a thing we would do.

"We do not remove ISK or assets from banned accounts to re-distribute them into the game, regardless of their rarity or value."

well actualy you do you did it with Plexes, So there is presidence for this action beeing taken

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feels dumb i have tell ccp what ccp has done but sure

I don't really count ISK and Assets (meaning incredibly rare ships that are potentially worth hundreds of billions of ISK) as even remotely the same as a stack of PLEX.

i wonder if every CCP member has to consult the legal team before making a forum post.
you know so they properly represent CCP if they represent CCP and explicitly say or not when they're just doing their own thing (banter, having a good time, etc.)
Bring on the Bureacracy

In other words.... There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Any consideration regarding the fact that this action will most likely remove a large number of unique items from the game (namely, numerous AT prize ships and other not-obtainable-ever-again type ships that are/were in possession of Somer)?

A potential solution would be to auction these unique items through public contracts with the ISK going to CCP (ie. removed from the game). Might even help fight the inflation a bit :)

Are you concerned that banning Somer might lock up ISK/assets that could otherwise be used to repay players?

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It's called delegation, you pass all the work off to your minions while taking all of the credit and raking in the cash. It's a fairly common business practice.

We don't release information of this nature

Which if Somer was involved in RMTing "by the book" should ostensibly mean confiscating or locking of all those assets (obviously actually tracking them, etc. is another matter), otherwise if its just for the publishing of internal memos and other sideline EULA breaches, which have mostly come about due to marginalisation even if Somer was in the wrong, this has taken a step in a very dubious direction.

I don't really count ISK and Assets (meaning incredibly rare ships that are potentially worth hundreds of billions of ISK) as even remotely the same as a stack of PLEX.

This makes no sence at all.
CCP has done this before and taken this action Except now its about Eve history and ships that have been around since the begining and not a small amount of them.
These are worth more to people because they are a part of our game. instead of a stack of plexes.
what makes me think you dont actualy play the game you work for is that you dont understand the importance of history in this game and what people feel about it. i will never be ablet o afford these ships in question but i like the idea there are these rare 1 of a kind ships out there that people have and not that all of them are sitting on banned accounts.

But if you can humor me to explain why a part of eve history is less important than a stack of plexes

This makes no sence at all.
CCP has done this before and taken this action Except now its about Eve history and ships that have been around since the begining and not a small amount of them.
These are worth more to people because they are a part of our game. instead of a stack of plexes.
what makes me think you dont actualy play the game you work for is that you dont understand the importance of history in this game and what people feel about it. i will never be ablet o afford these ships in question but i like the idea there are these rare 1 of a kind ships out there that people have and not that all of them are sitting on banned accounts.

But if you can humor me to explain why a part of eve history is less important than a stack of plexes

This makes no sence at all.
CCP has done this before and taken this action Except now its about Eve history and ships that have been around since the begining and not a small amount of them.
These are worth more to people because they are a part of our game. instead of a stack of plexes.
what makes me think you dont actualy play the game you work for is that you dont understand the importance of history in this game and what people feel about it. i will never be ablet o afford these ships in question but i like the idea there are these rare 1 of a kind ships out there that people have and not that all of them are sitting on banned accounts.

But if you can humor me to explain why a part of eve history is less important than a stack of plexes

Because it was banned out of the game. If you really want to see one of these rare ships try google search ;)

I don't really count ISK and Assets (meaning incredibly rare ships that are potentially worth hundreds of billions of ISK) as even remotely the same as a stack of PLEX.

So were the plexes they returned and gave out as prizes :) thats my point

I would like to see an in space, flight museum added where we can go to view these ships. Place a beacon in amarr or something and put a model of each rare ship out there.