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Somer Blink - Asked to stop but have got worse!

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Anomaly One
Doomheim
#21 - 2013-11-01 12:04:30 UTC
CCP is looking like somers ***** tbh, and I don't like that, I wish no one would buy from SOMER, **** them
Dudley Schwartz
Magic Hamsters
Miners Inn University
#22 - 2013-11-01 12:06:49 UTC
Frying Doom wrote:
Theo Sotken wrote:
So what did everyone think was going to happen to the isk in Somers accounts.

Anyway it will be interesting to see the effect (if any) of all that isk coming back into the eve economy.

I think people were hoping they would act like a member of the community and stop.

Instead they have acted exactly as you would expect a business to act and try to profit as much as possible before they are stopped.

They could not do much more of a **** you to CCP.



Yes, exactly this.
''Greed is good'' replies somer

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Impala59
Amazing Super Slackers
#23 - 2013-11-01 12:11:56 UTC
Why would any of you expect anything different?
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#24 - 2013-11-01 12:15:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Mara Rinn
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
At this point this should be called "Pulling a Poetic".


I'm not looking forward to the wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the people having their RMT ISK deducted from their wallets.

So … is the about the point in time that people with any Blink credit remaining should cash out ASAP?

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#25 - 2013-11-01 12:22:52 UTC
Quite frankly, this is horseshit.

They need to be banned. These games of favorites being able to get away with murder, while the rest of us are expected to follow rules, are ridiculous.

I am terrified to mention an alt to anyone...in game or out, but these douchenozzle's can operate blatant "That which cannot be named in the forums"...all the way up to the last second to squeeze every last drop out of their isk conversion scheme?

Enough with the double standards, and ban them the same exact way you dealt with the major botters and others found doing the "Un-named."

And then to top it off, whoever broke the story should be rewarded PLEX for Snitches.

Plain and simple. Follow your own rules.

Because hubris and complacency worked so well for you the last time, CCP.

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Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#26 - 2013-11-01 12:24:30 UTC
It is friday and I got the popcorn waiting.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#27 - 2013-11-01 12:26:30 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
I'm not looking forward to the wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the people having their RMT ISK deducted from their wallets.
What? That's the best part! P
Dudley Schwartz
Magic Hamsters
Miners Inn University
#28 - 2013-11-01 12:29:22 UTC
I know there has been hundreds of threads about the scandal, this just goes to show how many feathers have been ruffled in our community.
This crap makes me mad, blatant RMT'ing for far too long.

BLINK decides to cash out fast, take a look for yourself.

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Lugalbandak
Doomheim
#29 - 2013-11-01 12:39:02 UTC
I agree +1 for op

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Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#30 - 2013-11-01 12:41:10 UTC
Looks like they were given 10 days to stop...

So they are using those ten days to make as much money as possible.

I wonder if CCP now wants to comment on why Somer got all that free crap for being so 'good to the Eve community' or whatever they were supposed to be rewarded for.

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TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#31 - 2013-11-01 12:47:41 UTC
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.

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Treborr MintingtonJr
S.N.O.T
S.N.O.T.
#32 - 2013-11-01 12:48:26 UTC
This is like free advertising lol
Ace Boogi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2013-11-01 12:52:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Ace Boogi
TigerXtrm wrote:
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.

Somer has 300T isk to burn through. 1 trillion is a thousand billions. So, giving out 1b per $1.75 of GTC, profits would be 300,000 x 1.75 = $525,000. thats over half a million USD if Somer can RMT all his isk at that absurdly tempting conversion rate. a lot of people are taking advantage of these ridiculous isk firesale so they stand to make a ridiculous amount of profit. the first $135k (conservative estimate) clearly wasn't enough. and at the same time, Andrev Nox is playing the starving server admin card and blaming the playerbase for their woes. get ready for ads on blink followed by accepting paypal donations. these scumbags truly have no shame.
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#34 - 2013-11-01 12:53:07 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.
The 10 days is not given so they can make as much as they can. It's given so that they have time to make the technical changes to stop.
They are simply showing they have the ability to stop at any time, but want to push sales.

And I'll stop complaining when Somer are either shut down or they start looking out for the best interests of the community and not lining their pockets.

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Frying Doom
#35 - 2013-11-01 12:54:46 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.

Yes people took advantage of amazons stuff up.

The difference here is that Somer is making CCP look like chumps, Somer has proven it is not here for the community it is a business and it is here for its self.

All of its competitors stopped as soon as they got the word, as it is not good for EvE.

Somer did not stop they have gotten worse, they are a RL business and are in breach of the EULA and CCP needs to stop playing favorites and get rid of them.

Any spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors are because frankly, I don't care!!
Ace Boogi
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#36 - 2013-11-01 12:58:37 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
TigerXtrm wrote:
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.
The 10 days is not given so they can make as much as they can. It's given so that they have time to make the technical changes to stop.
They are simply showing they have the ability to stop at any time, but want to push sales.

And I'll stop complaining when Somer are either shut down or they start looking out for the best interests of the community and not lining their pockets.

yep, they sure changed their page real quick. earlier, i had predicted that Somer would just handle the situation by keeping their bonus credit link up but not acknowledging the cease and desist order, and only quietly changing the link at the last minute.

they surprised me with this one. even i wasn't expecting them to be this flagrant in flipping off not only the playerbase, but CCP, which vouched for them and now looks like morons. if you go check out their chat, they're blaming the forums for going after them with pitchforks and their customers are actually eating that **** up. but not everyone is blind. it's a pathetic sight to see how they responded to CCP's cease and desist order.
Dudley Schwartz
Magic Hamsters
Miners Inn University
#37 - 2013-11-01 13:01:39 UTC
Since when did other known RMT'ers get 10 days to stop what they're doing? They did not, what they did receive was a permanent ban, which is exactly what should happen in this case. Even more so now that BLINK has shown lack of respect for the community by cashing out fast and abusing the system even more; making us and CCP look like total idiots. Sad

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#38 - 2013-11-01 13:02:00 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?

CCP has set a strict deadline. 10 days and then all incentives and rewards in return for the use of affiliate links are to be gone. That's it. Until then anyone is free to do whatever they like. Taking advantage of the time you have left is not rocket science, any reasonably smart person would do this. See the Amazon mess up, people took massive advantage of that because they knew it could end at any minute.


No, people should not stop complaining.

First, to compare this to Amazon, is ludicrous. Amazon and CCP are both multi-national companies, one of which made a mistake, that yes, flooded PLEX into the market, but did no lasting damage to the ecosystem.

SOMER is an EVE-related website.

SOMER uses isk in it's transfers, a part of EvE Online.

SOMER exploited a loophole in CCP's "Redacted" policies.

SOMER then, after being given notice to terminate, despite other "affiliates" to GTC exchange changing their policies immediately, decide to spit in CCP's face, and ramp up their "Redacted" horseshit.

Thus, being a part of EVE Online, they are held accoutable by the same EULA and TOS as you or I. Are we allowed to grind isk and "Redacted?" No, of course not. Neither should they, and any transfers made out of SOMER's accounts after the announcement was given, should be dealt the same fate.

RULES ARE RULES. Period. If anything, every person who plays EvE legitimately, should be in on this thread.

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Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
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#39 - 2013-11-01 13:03:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Seven Koskanaiken
fill ya boots
i bet somer is the type to put food from a wedding buffet in their handbag and take it home
Maaaaowm Ogeko
Pandemic Horde High Sec Division
#40 - 2013-11-01 13:03:43 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:
Oh for the love of god, when will you people stop complaining?



No. I will not stop complaining.

I don't know who is in charge of public relations at CCP Games, but whoever it is needs to come out right now and disassociate that company from SOMER immediately and publicly. There also needs to be some kind of explanation to the playerbase as WTF has been going on.