EVE General Discussion

oh, you're even going to do their marketing for them?

Confirming my Somer Blink account got banned when i never bothered to read the rules of a 3rd party website not affiliated with CCP and tried to promo blink with 2 accounts not knowing this was not permitted

I pay my subscription to CCP just like everybody else - Why am I therefore being marginalised and excluded from being able to participate in this "community event" facilitated by CCP ?

The underlying principles here are exactly the same as why CCP devs decided to withdraw from several player run channels recently to create their own, given that player moderation / actions were potentially preventing all players from having free and unilateral access to CCP related content.

My Somer Account is blocked - I pay my eve subscription, yet I cannot take part in this event despite me abiding by and adhering to the terms and conditions as layed out by the EULA..

Unless everybody has access to participate in this lottery, then by its own actions, choices and decisions CCP are marginalising and excluding members of their own community since clearly there will be players who cannot take part in this even if they wanted to.

Utterly dreadful decision making, clear favouritism, and by default, not fair to the "whole" community.

10/10.

Hang on a second. If all I need to do to win EVE is to make a website that earns me money and get even more money from CCP I need to dig into HTML a bit.

Or remove my credit card information from account services.

Guess what's faster.

the website because I believe it's literally impossible to remove your cc info from ccp's services

Still FUBAR.

So I don't duplicate effort - has anyone reported to CCP IA yet?

Consider asking SOMER Blink to purchase these ships, and this is why.

You've just about followed my proposed Step 1 (above) to the letter - Bravo!

-1, -1, -1 CCP. Terrible, terrible, terrible decision making here. In fact, I don't see how you could confuse what the issues were.

Addressing the Gold Magnate/GVexor? Great! Nobody cares if you create new custom ships for promotions. The problem is that you're essentially giving SOMER Blink hundreds of billions in profit by having them be the outlet. You want to drum up support for Eve? Create good press? Fine. I don't think anyone would object to that. But CCP needs to be the one doing it. Otherwise, how can you possibly tell us with a straight face that you're totally fine with funneling hundreds of billions of isk into a player-run corporation?

I mean, Goons have a point. Red/Black/Blue Frog do too. SOMER isn't creating content for your game. They don't do ANYTHING to the game. It's all done via third party website, and only to make SOMER Blink RICH. So WTF CCP?

But to GSF, TEST, RFF, Push, Angel Project, Eve University, Brave Newbies, RvB, etc.--you know, the REAL creators of content and services in the game--I'm sorry but you guys are all missing the point. The point simply is that SOMER Blink drives so many GTC sales, which in turn equals $$ for CCP. Of course CCP is going to do whatever they have to do drive more traffic to SOMER Blink's website, get more people blinking and then "oh hey let me buy a GTC while I'm here. I get free Blink credit!!"

This is truly bad decision, CCP. You offend your player base with your blatant disregard for our intellect, and you overtly and actively show favoritism to a third party website that is in the game WITH THE SOLE INTEREST OF MAKING THEIR BANK ACCOUNT LARGER.

If you really wanted to have a goodwill lottery, it's a simple matter of consulting your database for active subs and drawing a name from there. Yes, it's unbalanced as many people have various alts, but at least I know in that case there won't be someone with hundreds or thousands of entries to the average players few. SOMER Blink exists at the fringe, preying off unsuspecting gamblers or serving as a plaything for the richest of rich elite. The fact that you couldn't see this, AND you (intentionally) left the CSM out of the picture shows that you have once again lost your way. You have learned NOTHING from Incarna.

It is a most troubling time to be a fan of CCP, since you have mercilessly destroyed the trust and confidence that you have gained from our support. I am disturbed by today's events, and I find myself wondering if this is a precedent for how CCP's favoritism will be spun in future dealings.

Only takes a minute to stop reoccurring charges.

I don't think I've ever agreed with Goons & associates more than what I've seen in this thread though. This 'sponsorship' is nothing but favouritism.

I'd quote and respond to CCP Navigator's reply regarding signing up for blinks, but I'd be permabanned for the only response I have to that. I will take a temp ban though, if it's warranted. "Clueless ******"

I guess this is "one of the moments where we [CCP] look at what our players do and less of what they say."