Does this not explicitly and exactly describe entities like iwantisk, eve bet, eohpoker.com, themittani.com and the like? Or is the only distinction here that the business has to earn real currency from their operations?

What do you think, Mr. Fantasmo?

More specifically, where does that place the entities that do generate income through advertisement revenue? I checked four of those sites and two had non-eve related advertisements on them (i.e. probably not paid for with isk).

So where exactly should the line be drawn? Are some allowed to slide and everyone else has to follow the rules?

those are entities owned by players , not entities with accounts.

i do love a good auld manufactured outrage
but they explicitly laid this one out in as clear and plebean friendly language as possible,
try harder mate.

Business Entity:

Hi my name is Gamer X, i own Gamer X's gold sales. I have 30 accounts paid by my business, i write this off as a business expesnse and they are botting in eve with the proupose of selling isk so i make profit.

or

I am Gamer X, and i higher sweat shop workers to play eve so i cna sell there isk for a profit


Not a Business Entity:

Hi, I am Gamer Y, i'm a huge fan of eve, and made a website where i blog about it. This site cost me personally XXX a month, so i'm going to add some google adsense ads to hep cover this cost. i'm not tyring to make any actual profit, i just want to provide a good blog and keep the site up.

See the difference? Now there is a bunch of grey in between thouse, and you could argue that some eve news site might be business entities. But, if they are not making money off ingame ****, its actually fine.

Really not that hard to understand

are you hacking at streamers , monitised 3rd party sites or ccp now im not sure?

I'm not seeing what King Ralph is, which is usually my signal that I'm really wrong so take the following with a large grain of salt:

The literal read of it would indeed preclude anyone from making money off of EVE other than CCP. Literal is not intent though.

Intent is probably making profit off of the game for the sake of profit and in no way returning value to the game. The ISK miners, etc. would fall into that group. They just take and EVE or CCP gets nothing back.

Other business sorts like Mittani, Markee Dragon, and a whole host of other players that find a way to make real money off of EVE activities, arguably add to the game by bringing in new players and swirling social media to broadcast the game to a wider audience.

So, my final read is that CCP would whip this out as a ban-stick if they find someone doing something they don't like or someone gets caught in the real world doing a scam and brings a bad light on EVE. As long as it doesn't hurt the game or the players, I think they let it slide.

... they just clarified exactly that , im not sure what els to tell you without using sock puppets

I am seeking clarification of the rules as they are stated, as it seems there is a vast grey area that many apparent business non-entities are currently operating within.

And where would accepting direct cash donations on twitch fall, of those two areas? My twitch account is free every month, there are no incurred upkeep costs there.

I am seeking clarification of the rules as they are stated

See the post above yours. They obviously get it. You obviously don't.

different issue,

they did have a video monetization policy that covered that but i cant actually find it anymore.

If you are able to find that again I would love to see it. From what I recall the EULA and TOS don't really cover that very well, though I will admit it has been awhile since I've read them.

See the post above yours. They obviously get it. You obviously don't.

here is where it used to live, this is the forum post from ccp guard announcing it.

honestly contact the leagal team via the email linked and ask about it.

Thank you for the links. It appears I may need to familiarize myself with This regarding the OP, though it doesn't appear to fully cover all of my initial concerns.

ah you found it, nice one.