EVE General Discussion

Hey guys,

Apologies for the delay in putting out a notification, I’ve just arrived home from the office after a bit of a busy day talking to various departments to get a handle on how and what’s been going on with this situation.

This issue was first brought to the attention of the Community Team by the CSM around 24 hours ago after concern was raised by members of the community regarding the promotion that’s currently going on over at SOMERblink.

Myself and CCP Leeloo has been sat with various groups within CCP today and have been in constant contact with the CSM throughout the day to discuss the concerns of the community and make sure that some form of resolution is reached. They’ve been very clear, direct and unified with their opinion on the situation, and this is a sentiment that I share with them.

This thread will serve as a place where we’ll be updating you guys on what’s going on with this to make sure that there’s a central place for information, because it’s quite clear that this is an issue that the community is taking seriously. It’s also something I feel incredibly strongly about.

At this point in time, we’re investigating exactly what’s going on with the whole situation, and I’ve been in contact with our Legal department, Sales and our Information Security team with a view to having this looked into and resolved.

Given the sheer size of the investigation that we’ll be undertaking, this is going to take some time, as a lot of ISK and assets have changed hands. While some temporary action has been taken in order to keep a handle on the situation, any outcome of an investigation is still to be determined, and I can’t give any further information regarding the process while it’s ongoing.

There’s not a great deal more that I’ll be able to give you guys tonight, but please be aware, and rest assured, that you will not be stonewalled over this, and within reason the Community Team will be letting you guys know exactly what’s going on as and when we can release more information.

I’m hoping to have more on this for you guys tomorrow as we look into this further, but for now, this is just to let you all know that your voices have been heard, we’re actively looking at the situation, and will feed back as soon as we have more information that we can share.

We'll be locking all the other threads that are discussing this, and diverting them here to keep feedback concise and centralized in one place, so please feel free to use this thread to talk about the issue openly.

Just remember to keep it civil and within the forum rules, which also means no discussion of warnings and bans.

Thanks for your patience,

- F

Thanks for the updates-- given the investigation, I assume we can conclude that the reports of this being 100% okay with CCP are greatly exaggerated?

And yeah. For me, at least, I just want the RMT lines to be clear-- I was there for this last year, it was ******, and it seems like it's something nobody wants to see happening again.

Thank you for the public update. I think it's important to stress to the community that this is a little too big to be resolved in a day or two, and I know we're all looking forward to the updates as they come.

I'd especially like to thank you, Leeloo, Manifest, and the others for the time and focus you're putting into this, as I know this is going to be a lot of work for those involved.

TY

also to quote the post just after this by Nadine Jones



http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/74632

Do we even need to say any more? well I did a show about it tonight Download it here

Good to see some action.

The less RMT, the better. Can't stamp it out completely, but you can try.


Either this was a GM error (someone gave SOMER permission to do this and should not have) in which case a firm announcement of an 'Oops, this isn't happening again' is sufficient, or it was blatant RMT.

CCP Falcon is hopefully the good egg that targets the bad ones in the basket

Edit:
I'm the one who started this investigation, with this post on reddit.com/r/eve 2 days ago.

Somerset Mahms continuous attempts to RMT was not the problem – His business has earned over a hundred thousand dollars from EVE thus far, of course he wants to continue.

The problem was CCP’s inability to fairly deal with this attitude, being extremely lenient with Somerset Mahm's RMT business, with no repercussions whatsoever thus far.

CCP treating important, rich players differently than 'the little guy' is what made me rage and post on reddit. They did not resolve Somer's last RMT scheme (the one shut down in October 2013) and just hoped for it to quietly go away. I didn't want that to happen this time. Let's see what will result in this time's investigation, I'm confident CCP has changed during the last year, evident by CCP Falcons posting.

Somer's ragequit and shutdown of Blink shows, that he was only in it for the money and not for the 'community' - CCP most likely told him that RMT will never be allowed again, so he shut it down.

I'm pretty happy on how this turned out. The butterfly effect is real
One post by a small player made the CSM become active. Devs got involved and alarmclocked for meetings. The executive producer herself got involved. In the end Somer ragequit and I can honestly say, that my actions had an impact on all of EVE.

In what other game would that be possible?

Great to see this thread at last!

+rep and awaiting more info when you can guys

<3

Edit: also great quote there Sugar Kyle! Very relevant indeed!

When we contacted CCP it was about 2am their time and we got immediate responses from CCP Falcon and CCP Leeloo. CCP Falcon is now going to bed 22 hours later. I toss that out there for the people who will wonder why questions will not be answered until tomorrow.

YOU CAN LINK IMAGES NOW?