EVE General Discussion

In one of the many threads on the whole Somerblink and special ships thing that has been created in the recent CFC spurge often forum poster Lucas Kell of SMA and CFC Member has openly accused CCP of endorsing RMT by having a partnership with Somerblink.

CCP Navigator stated the following in this thread

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=281298&find=unread

"Q3, How do we know we can trust Fansites and third parties to operate fairly and independently?

A3, We have worked with a lot of third party sites in the past such as EVE Radio, BIG Lottery and SOMER Blink. These entities (and others of course) have demonstrated a solid history of trust and reliability. As a result, we can verify that they have been straight and true in their dealings and this should be encouraged."

Lucas Kell has then stated this here

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=281233&p=11

"Secondly SOMER is a laundering service for RMT. They run shill accounts which "win" then pass the isk to other players for real cash. Since the shill account is made to be totally separate, SOMER doesn't have to worry about them getting banned."

Of course he has posted no evidence but when has that stopped Eve players before

So if CCP Navigator has already verified that Somerblink is trustworthy that must either they are aware of Somerblink RMT'ing and have no issues with it thus endorsing it, or Lucas Kell is making completely unproven and unfounded accusations which in turn is casting both CCP and Somerblink in a very bad light.

You are correct and I have changed my post accordingly Good Sir :)

I declare that I have pink hair, the government controls us with radio frequencies, and mittani is actually an 80 year old Italian Mafia widow honing her mob leadership skills in EVE by using her nerd grandson as the face of CFC.

Doesn't mean any of it is true.

Welcome to the internet.

It's called a Straw Man argument...

Person 1 has position X.
Person 2 disregards certain key points of X and instead presents the superficially similar position Y. The position Y is a distorted version of X and can be set up in several ways, including:
Presenting a misrepresentation of the opponent's position.
Quoting an opponent's words out of context—i.e., choosing quotations that misrepresent the opponent's actual intentions (see fallacy of quoting out of context).
Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then refuting that person's arguments—thus giving the appearance that every upholder of that position (and thus the position itself) has been defeated.
Inventing a fictitious persona with actions or beliefs which are then criticized, implying that the person represents a group of whom the speaker is critical.
Oversimplifying an opponent's argument, then attacking this oversimplified version.
Person 2 attacks position Y, concluding that X is false/incorrect/flawed.

Because goons/CFC have never been brought into a bad light with RMT claims from random players without proof on say a daily base ..

Theres a deal between somer blink and markee dragon for him selling GTC's from their somer blink site ..... any bets on how much they get paid for that ... out of game ?

Well appearantly :
lycas is the official speaker for goonswarm alliance .

Somer Blink is directly selling Blink Credit (easily converted to ISK) for real-life money through their GTC affiliate links.

How this could ever get green-lighted by GMs is a mystery to me but I guess there's no point crying over it. I've bought a few billion this way.

(Edit: Shortly after Incarna I sat down and thought hard what CCP would have to do for me to permanently quit EVE. My conclusion was that I am way too addicted to quit over anything CCP might conceivably **** up in the foreseeable future - sanctioned RMT, pervasive botting, dev favoritism, increasing carebeariziation, ... are all things that I would like to quit EVE over but that realistically won't help me overcome my addiction. Ever since this realization I have been happily living in the land of "don't give a ****". I suggest other people do the same - EVE drama is a lot more fun if you aren't emotionally invested.)

lot of anti-SMA going on in the forums in the last day

please show us on the dolls where the monkey touched you

or in my case... where i touched your wallet... or which contract you made typos on

Monkeys are disgusting creatures and you should be ashamed for naming your alliance after them.