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EVE Community Spotlight #10 - SOMER blink

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CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2012-12-07 13:32:58 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
Another EVE Community Spotlight is ready for you!

This time we would like to introduce you to the exciting world of lotteries in EVE Online. You can win riches (or lose them), you might want to play some of the lotteries just on the side outside the EVE client or you might want to go all or you might think it would be better to stay away from gambling - the choice is yours! But whatever you decide, this Spotlight features one of the most prominent lotteries in EVE Online. As a reminder, you are only allowed to gamble with in-game money for in-game items (or in-game money).

The tenth Spotlight is about SOMER blink.

Read more about SOMER blink in the Community Spotlight here.

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
DeBingJos
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-12-07 13:37:47 UTC  |  Edited by: DeBingJos
Interesting fact: I have never won a single thing on blink. Sad

Edit: FIRST!

Ungi maðurinn þekkir reglurnar, en gamli maðurinn þekkir undantekningarnar. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Terje Teinturier
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-12-07 13:50:24 UTC
Obvious scam is obvious Big smile
Hakaru Ishiwara
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-12-07 14:34:38 UTC
CCP giving inequitable advertising to a commercial entity?

+++++++ I have never shed a tear for a fellow EVE player until now. Mark “Seleene” Heard's Blog Honoring Sean "Vile Rat" Smith.
ChromeStriker
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-12-07 14:38:21 UTC  |  Edited by: ChromeStriker
I want to win \o/

No Worries
Miles Forrester
Eire Engineers
Pandemic Horde
#6 - 2012-12-07 16:41:42 UTC
Must... not... blink....
mkint
#7 - 2012-12-07 16:48:51 UTC
Hey CCP, I've got a scam I want to advertise. Little help?

Maxim 6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-12-07 16:51:43 UTC
The greatest trick somerblink ever pulled was convincing players that they were legit...

The wishlist is pretty much complete...
Adam Junior
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2012-12-07 18:02:14 UTC
I don't get why everyone thinks Somer Blink is a scam - yes you get less out then you put in (on average of course) but that's the whole point. I've won stuff on Somer Blink but ultimately lost more than I put in - exactly as anyone should expect when gambling, there is no deception here.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-12-07 18:33:09 UTC
Stridsflygplan
Deliverance.
Arrival.
#11 - 2012-12-07 20:37:04 UTC
Awesome! Cool
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#12 - 2012-12-07 20:40:37 UTC
mkint wrote:
Hey CCP, I've got a scam I want to advertise. Little help?

If you have something that affects a large part of the EVE community, is active already for a good amount of time and has received a lot of good feedback from the community, then chances are not bad that you will hear sooner or later from us.

We are not saying that SOMER blink is a scam or that SOMER blink is legit, however, we state that SOMER blink is an interesting initiative from within the EVE community that it is well received over the years.

If someone would invest that much time and energy to pull off a scam and is still going strong, well, then this would be quite an awesome story in itself and would deserve some spotlight. So, regardless if SOMER blink is a scam or not, the effort and energy put into this initiative together with the reception from within the EVE community fully justifies this broadened attention.

The EVE community is sparkling with interesting projects run by passionate and dedicate player and I am really happy about this fact. The more everyone knows about all these projects, the better it is in my opinion. Smile


Maybe you can be the next SOMER blink?

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Terrorfrodo
Interbus Universal
#13 - 2012-12-07 21:15:58 UTC
Do you refer to Blink's boss as a "she" just because the character is female, or is the player really a woman? (Of course this may simply be unknown.)

I refer to every EVE player as a "he" regardless of character sex, until further evidence Lol

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Hitego Luna
POCKET-ACES
#14 - 2012-12-07 23:04:01 UTC
From the Devblog:

"According to Somerset, some of the lottery earnings are used to reward the staff for their great work, but quite a bit is also used to support the EVE Community. It speaks to itself that this support is usually done in the background and without big trumpet sounds, but we would like to mention here at least a recent donation to New Eden Open tournament teams."

Given blink is a self-sustaining enterprise, it is safe to say that in this context "quite a bit" is actually smaller than "some". However Somerset is trying to equivocate by using the word "some" instead of "most", and the repetition in the printed article is deplorable.

I think the second sentence in this paragraph is completely misleading. There is no value being given out to the community the vast majority of the time from blink. Assuming the existence of "unreported" support is not supported by any sort of inductive reasoning. This "unreported" support might as well be payments to alts on blink affiliated accounts.

All players will lose ISK playing blink in the long run, the convergence of the game is to a negative income for players. Any winners are beneficiaries of short term variance and even they will lose in the long run.
mkint
#15 - 2012-12-08 03:59:13 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:
mkint wrote:
Hey CCP, I've got a scam I want to advertise. Little help?

If you have something that affects a large part of the EVE community, is active already for a good amount of time and has received a lot of good feedback from the community, then chances are not bad that you will hear sooner or later from us.

We are not saying that SOMER blink is a scam or that SOMER blink is legit, however, we state that SOMER blink is an interesting initiative from within the EVE community that it is well received over the years.

If someone would invest that much time and energy to pull off a scam and is still going strong, well, then this would be quite an awesome story in itself and would deserve some spotlight. So, regardless if SOMER blink is a scam or not, the effort and energy put into this initiative together with the reception from within the EVE community fully justifies this broadened attention.

The EVE community is sparkling with interesting projects run by passionate and dedicate player and I am really happy about this fact. The more everyone knows about all these projects, the better it is in my opinion. Smile


Maybe you can be the next SOMER blink?

What about that guy who looted the goonswarm coffers that one time. In that one act that thief did way more good for eve than any mass-scammer.

Maxim 6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Beckie DeLey
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2012-12-08 10:49:41 UTC
ITT: Jealousy

My siren's name is Brick and she is the prettiest.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-12-08 14:24:58 UTC
WTB EBANK community spotlight

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Kylen Celina
Doomheim
#18 - 2012-12-09 15:35:58 UTC
I would just like to take this time to thank everyone who plays blink and helps make Blink such a great thing to be a part of for all the staff. So thank you to all the Blinkers out there and thank you to CCP for writing this spotlight about us.

I would just like to say 1 more thing PROMO UP.
mramo
Doomheim
#19 - 2012-12-09 17:13:24 UTC
I wonder how rich he is. He is probably the first person to legally reach the 10 trillion milestone. I guess by now his net asset value is somewhere between 10 and 40 trillion.
Abditus Cularius
Clancularius Industries
#20 - 2012-12-09 18:33:40 UTC
mramo wrote:
I wonder how rich he is. He is probably the first person to legally reach the 10 trillion milestone. I guess by now his net asset value is somewhere between 10 and 40 trillion.


Except CCP have already released a statistic telling us the single richest player, alliance or corp has 5T. Second place was 1 point something.
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