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SOMER Blink - Microlotteries that Finish in Minutes! 1 QUADRILLION ISK Won!

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Frank Pannon
Emerald Swine Escavations
#1701 - 2013-08-23 14:37:52 UTC
Won a dreamship on a promo, thank you Blink! Big smile
Karljohn
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1702 - 2013-08-24 20:22:40 UTC
Hi im new too blink , cant open gifts scattered around the site, how long before i can?
Ray McKenna
Null Logistics Inc
#1703 - 2013-08-25 06:51:04 UTC
How often do you lottery off supers and titans? And when you do whats the cost/number of tickets?
Andrev Nox
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1704 - 2013-08-25 08:43:28 UTC
Karljohn wrote:
Hi im new too blink , cant open gifts scattered around the site, how long before i can?


Gifts can only be opened by those who've registered before the celebration began. You'll be eligible next celebration :)

Ray McKenna wrote:
How often do you lottery off supers and titans? And when you do whats the cost/number of tickets?


We've done titans now and again as Bonk prizes, though this week was the first time we ever did all 4 at once :p

The normal ticket price for a Bonk is 500k. :)

Somer Blink - The original microlottery site.

Somerset Mahm
Cognitive Distortion
#1705 - 2013-08-25 09:08:46 UTC
Welp, that was one of the most epic things I've ever done. Thanks to everyone who came out and spent time with us! We passed 1,200 in Lotteries channel.

SOMER Blink Microlotteries that finish in minutes! Running for over 2 years :)

Krakil Frostborn
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1706 - 2013-08-25 12:03:03 UTC
Well tnx a lot SOMER , you just lost a customer , i did play alot of blink in the past and still do , but its all over now. Wanna know why? You are all scamers , cheating people of their money. I had accepted that but now with the 10th anniversary gift boxes draw I just refuse to close my eyes any longer.

ZX73 - a semi-new blinker WHO WON A BOX ( 472 total blinks )

TheKiller122 - he seems legit

Logan Hawke - NOW YOU LOST ME , 10 day old blinker WITH 20 BLINKS , WINS A BOX , a char from 2004 who just discovered blink TO WIN WHAT?!?! ( you think we are that ******** and ignorant?)

Kemig Hywaith - same as the first guy ( 418 blinks )

Magnus Inurious - 10 blinks , ARE YOU FREAKING ******** , this guy obviously had played those in 2012 , and now JUST TO ENTER THE DRAW he played 1-2 ONE YEAR LATER , AND WIN?? ...

Bobby Artrald - same as 1st and 4th guy ( 430 blinks)

Sebastian Slate - 17 total blinks ...with a bugged site profile from poor admin editing , just check him you will see ( notice any values missing? )

SophieKate - 16 total blinks...

so what? i had to create a new char to be there or is it all set up just for THOSE LITE BLINKERS ...
Bobby Artrald
Capitalist Pigs Inc.
#1707 - 2013-08-25 12:17:59 UTC
I'll trade you my 10th Anniversary box set for a pile of isk
Krakil Frostborn
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1708 - 2013-08-25 12:34:46 UTC
Bobby Artrald wrote:
I'll trade you my 10th Anniversary box set for a pile of isk

This is pathetic, ITS YOUR FIRST FORUM POST ... you obviously dont login here and now once someone read the above here you are. Cmon you can do better ,, but this is hilarious
GrammarNazi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1709 - 2013-08-25 15:17:59 UTC
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Well tnx a lot SOMER , you just lost a customer


I'm sorry to hear that you did not enjoy yourself during the latest celebration. It is true that some of the winners of the prizes CCP donated are relatively new players. However, because each unique player receives only one ticket, and because the nature of the draw is random, it is just as likely that any given individual would win as any other. A 2003 player does not have a greater chance to win than one of the younger players you mentioned. We decided to draw the prizes this way because we did not want to accept isk for prizes that had been generously donated by CCP, and because we did not want to give an advantage to anyone when it came to real life prizes.

However, I can say from experience that whether the winners are young or old, people will always be unsatisfied. The majority of our customers were satisfied with the way the celebration went. If you do not like playing, or if you do not believe that Blink is worth your time, we encourage you not to play. Smile
Krakil Frostborn
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1710 - 2013-08-25 15:51:49 UTC
GrammarNazi wrote:
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Well tnx a lot SOMER , you just lost a customer


I'm sorry to hear that you did not enjoy yourself during the latest celebration. It is true that some of the winners of the prizes CCP donated are relatively new players. However, because each unique player receives only one ticket, and because the nature of the draw is random, it is just as likely that any given individual would win as any other. A 2003 player does not have a greater chance to win than one of the younger players you mentioned. We decided to draw the prizes this way because we did not want to accept isk for prizes that had been generously donated by CCP, and because we did not want to give an advantage to anyone when it came to real life prizes.

However, I can say from experience that whether the winners are young or old, people will always be unsatisfied. The majority of our customers were satisfied with the way the celebration went. If you do not like playing, or if you do not believe that Blink is worth your time, we encourage you not to play. Smile


No i really get it , problem is some of these champs lack stats on profile ( just one here ) others have played especially to qualify in the drawings without any prior achievments in over a year . Stuff like that is really suspicious. Truth be told i didnt expect to win really :P knowing how much ppl there are its just insane to hope for the luck.

+ something else
the guy that responded , he didnt have a single forum post , but suddenly he appears IN the right topic IN the right time to make his first EVER post just after i made that saying. So as far as i am concerned , someone from blink had bought that char long ago and is just receiving awards through it.
Coiled Meza
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#1711 - 2013-08-25 16:41:57 UTC
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
GrammarNazi wrote:
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Well tnx a lot SOMER , you just lost a customer


I'm sorry to hear that you did not enjoy yourself during the latest celebration. It is true that some of the winners of the prizes CCP donated are relatively new players. However, because each unique player receives only one ticket, and because the nature of the draw is random, it is just as likely that any given individual would win as any other. A 2003 player does not have a greater chance to win than one of the younger players you mentioned. We decided to draw the prizes this way because we did not want to accept isk for prizes that had been generously donated by CCP, and because we did not want to give an advantage to anyone when it came to real life prizes.

However, I can say from experience that whether the winners are young or old, people will always be unsatisfied. The majority of our customers were satisfied with the way the celebration went. If you do not like playing, or if you do not believe that Blink is worth your time, we encourage you not to play. Smile


No i really get it , problem is some of these champs lack stats on profile ( just one here ) others have played especially to qualify in the drawings without any prior achievments in over a year . Stuff like that is really suspicious. Truth be told i didnt expect to win really :P knowing how much ppl there are its just insane to hope for the luck.

+ something else
the guy that responded , he didnt have a single forum post , but suddenly he appears IN the right topic IN the right time to make his first EVER post just after i made that saying. So as far as i am concerned , someone from blink had bought that char long ago and is just receiving awards through it.



And you all thought I was insane lolz. I did play blink during celebrations but saw to much fishy stuf to sink more than few bil in lol.. Thing is if you win the plex even though its a ingame item it still has Value feel sorry for the US people if they win or if this is on US territory because I feel the IRS gonna have field day w ith this one
Lanyaie V2
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1712 - 2013-08-25 17:01:32 UTC

Krakil Frostborn,

I'm probably wasting my time by replying to you but here I go:

First of all I'd like to point out that CCP is the one who donated these prizes, CCP must have thought it out quite well because simply giving away stuff to a player lottery is considered interacting with the game. Even if somer blink was an entire big scam and there were thousands of alts account involved (lol) they would still have to legitimately hand out the CCP prizes to actual players, why? Simple because CCP can easily check if there are alt accounts involved, if that was the case CCP wouldn't give a few individuals free in game items which would mean they did the same as what happened with the T2 bpo's in the t20 scandal.

Regarding your forum post theory: The guy can be an alt of someone using that as a blink character, he doesn't need to play on his main account. I also don't think that it's rocket science that someone is capable of clicking on the link that says "blink forum thread" and then go to the last page to see their name being mentioned.
Some of these characters might be new to eve and not have a lot of isk to spend, they simply put in a few million and blinked and either lost or won and then stopped for a while, those people got lucky and won something to a draw where everyone had 1 ticket.
Blink buying characters to win is also unlikely because they could just make alts for free, seeing as it's drawn using RNG and Chribbas dice they would have to know the exact number it would land on and make sure they have that specific ticket. This would be almost impossible to do as before everything is drawn they let people see the ticket list which means that any changes can be noticeable, unless you're implying that both Chribba and RNG are involved in this in which case It's awesome that somer managed to get those 2 involved in scamming in an online video game(who doesn't like pixel space money right?)
Now I'd like to type more but my fingers are tired.
Lanyaie V2
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1713 - 2013-08-25 17:02:32 UTC
Coiled Meza wrote:



And you all thought I was insane lolz. I did play blink during celebrations but saw to much fishy stuf to sink more than few bil in lol.. Thing is if you win the plex even though its a ingame item it still has Value feel sorry for the US people if they win or if this is on US territory because I feel the IRS gonna have field day w ith this one


IRS can't collect tax on those prizes.
ZX73
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1714 - 2013-08-25 17:20:04 UTC
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Well tnx a lot SOMER , you just lost a customer , i did play alot of blink in the past and still do , but its all over now. Wanna know why? You are all scamers , cheating people of their money. I had accepted that but now with the 10th anniversary gift boxes draw I just refuse to close my eyes any longer.

ZX73 - a semi-new blinker WHO WON A BOX ( 472 total blinks )

TheKiller122 - he seems legit

Logan Hawke - NOW YOU LOST ME , 10 day old blinker WITH 20 BLINKS , WINS A BOX , a char from 2004 who just discovered blink TO WIN WHAT?!?! ( you think we are that ******** and ignorant?)

Kemig Hywaith - same as the first guy ( 418 blinks )

Magnus Inurious - 10 blinks , ARE YOU FREAKING ******** , this guy obviously had played those in 2012 , and now JUST TO ENTER THE DRAW he played 1-2 ONE YEAR LATER , AND WIN?? ...

Bobby Artrald - same as 1st and 4th guy ( 430 blinks)

Sebastian Slate - 17 total blinks ...with a bugged site profile from poor admin editing , just check him you will see ( notice any values missing? )

SophieKate - 16 total blinks...

so what? i had to create a new char to be there or is it all set up just for THOSE LITE BLINKERS ...


LOL You seem a bit upset. I have played blink on and off for a couple of years. Sorry they did not rig it so only the people with the most blinks played could win. You sound like a sore loser. You cannot just deem Blink as scammers because you didn't win lol.
klakksen Sasen
Doomheim
#1715 - 2013-08-25 17:22:05 UTC
Lanyaie V2 wrote:



First of all I'd like to point out that CCP is the one who donated these prizes, CCP must have thought it out quite well because simply giving away stuff to a player lottery is considered interacting with the game. Even if somer blink was an entire big scam and there were thousands of alts account involved (lol) they would still have to legitimately hand out the CCP prizes to actual players, why? Simple because CCP can easily check if there are alt accounts involved, if that was the case CCP wouldn't give a few individuals free in game items which would mean they did the same as what happened with the T2 bpo's in the t20 scandal.

Now I'd like to type more but my fingers are tired.


CCP donates the prizes because somer are selling gtc's like crazy.
It's all about rl money.
Krakil Frostborn
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1716 - 2013-08-25 17:27:30 UTC
Ok whatever guys , i will stop spamming you . All i had to say i've already said. Tnx for the opinion Lanyaie V2 i apreciate it and get it and here is a short answer to you - who cares about alts? Its won spots out of 8 , give them to real life friends etc and stuff like that , i do know that A LOT and i do mean a lot of the people who play blink dont keep going , hell its the same for the game itself and it really justifies that. I have no prove , no forged piece of code , nor any chat logs to say any different that infact 8 different people won who have nothing to do with the lottery. I just expressed my personal thoughts and opinion. I can keep on arguing but i see no point.

Hf see you in promos...
ZX73
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1717 - 2013-08-25 17:32:57 UTC
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Ok whatever guys , i will stop spamming you . All i had to say i've already said. Tnx for the opinion Lanyaie V2 i apreciate it and get it and here is a short answer to you - who cares about alts? Its won spots out of 8 , give them to real life friends etc and stuff like that , i do know that A LOT and i do mean a lot of the people who play blink dont keep going , hell its the same for the game itself and it really justifies that. I have no prove , no forged piece of code , nor any chat logs to say any different that infact 8 different people won who have nothing to do with the lottery. I just expressed my personal thoughts and opinion. I can keep on arguing but i see no point.

Hf see you in promos...


Really?! After all the research you did on us winners? I expected more...
Coiled Meza
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#1718 - 2013-08-25 20:54:16 UTC
Lanyaie V2 wrote:
Coiled Meza wrote:



And you all thought I was insane lolz. I did play blink during celebrations but saw to much fishy stuf to sink more than few bil in lol.. Thing is if you win the plex even though its a ingame item it still has Value feel sorry for the US people if they win or if this is on US territory because I feel the IRS gonna have field day w ith this one


IRS can't collect tax on those prizes.



Indeed they can because its worth RL Cash hence RL was paid for to get said items you might want to Check the law buddy.
TheKiller122
Avenger Mercenaries
VOID Intergalactic Forces
#1719 - 2013-08-25 21:23:24 UTC
Krakil Frostborn wrote:
Well tnx a lot SOMER , you just lost a customer , i did play alot of blink in the past and still do , but its all over now. Wanna know why? You are all scamers , cheating people of their money. I had accepted that but now with the 10th anniversary gift boxes draw I just refuse to close my eyes any longer.

ZX73 - a semi-new blinker WHO WON A BOX ( 472 total blinks )

TheKiller122 - he seems legit

Logan Hawke - NOW YOU LOST ME , 10 day old blinker WITH 20 BLINKS , WINS A BOX , a char from 2004 who just discovered blink TO WIN WHAT?!?! ( you think we are that ******** and ignorant?)

Kemig Hywaith - same as the first guy ( 418 blinks )

Magnus Inurious - 10 blinks , ARE YOU FREAKING ******** , this guy obviously had played those in 2012 , and now JUST TO ENTER THE DRAW he played 1-2 ONE YEAR LATER , AND WIN?? ...

Bobby Artrald - same as 1st and 4th guy ( 430 blinks)

Sebastian Slate - 17 total blinks ...with a bugged site profile from poor admin editing , just check him you will see ( notice any values missing? )

SophieKate - 16 total blinks...

so what? i had to create a new char to be there or is it all set up just for THOSE LITE BLINKERS ...



So you think im the only Logit person to win, NICE!
Lanyaie V2
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1720 - 2013-08-25 23:44:41 UTC
Coiled Meza wrote:
Lanyaie V2 wrote:
Coiled Meza wrote:



And you all thought I was insane lolz. I did play blink during celebrations but saw to much fishy stuf to sink more than few bil in lol.. Thing is if you win the plex even though its a ingame item it still has Value feel sorry for the US people if they win or if this is on US territory because I feel the IRS gonna have field day w ith this one


IRS can't collect tax on those prizes.



Indeed they can because its worth RL Cash hence RL was paid for to get said items you might want to Check the law buddy.

I could create a long wall of text explaining why they can't or I Could just laugh and post this.