EVE General Discussion

i don't do twitter/facebook myself, but i've seen other screens of **** like that. invitations to dinners and the like. real chummy stuff. i'm sure they are all on first name basis.

also, i saw your post in the channel. didn't take long for them to kick you did it

The items situation only called for Somer to be looked at more closely. It's when we began to look more closely that we realised what they were doing. Obviously Somer players are the ones with the most exposure to Somer so they may have noticed it and not said much. But when those of us that do not play Somer are suddenly told they are some beacon of the community, sure, it makes us pay attention.
This rule should have been enforced from day 1, but it wasn't and that's now fixed. But Somer pushing sales even harder is clearly not the right thing to do. All of the other site that had incentives have immediately packed up, as they should. Somer instead chose to make a last effort to make as much cash as possible. That shows they have no respect for the rules and no respect for the community.

Damn, really wanted to read that devblog but like so many others (the $1000 pants one) it got "missing".
What was it again "the winners will write the past"?

You, and ppl like you, make me sick. For all the HTFU and WOW is that way crap that gets spewed on this forum, never have I seen such a collection of entitled, self-important whiners. For the vast majority of Eve players, this SomerBLINK nonsense has exactly ZERO impact on their game.


Please, CCP, don't mistake the forum pussies for the Eve player base. Most of us could care less.

you could care less, but you don't, because you're emotionally invested in shilling for an RMT corporation for some reason

Greed is good. RMT is good when it sells GTC.

So much this.

I think it's pretty clear that if you make CCP money, the rules do not apply to you.

They are completely within their rights to apply the rules how/when they see fit, for instance retroactively banning people for scams that never broke the rules; also allowing only certain people to practice this modified RMT.

That's fine, CCP has broken no official agreement with the playerbase.

Unofficially, however, I agree to continue to give CCP my money in exchange for a subscription to a sandbox game where minimalist rules are applied equally and fairly to everyone. That's my unofficial agreement with CCP, and it has held up pretty nicely for the last 6+ years.

I will not purchase Somer-tainted GTC, nor any other GTC, ever again. CCP's silence is the most important factor that made this decision for me.

edit: After a 6 year run, 59 days left and counting (no you can never have my stuff)

Seriously? Because they Skyped with someone from CCP? Surely you're joking?

Are you going to wildly vomit when I tell you that the organisers of EVE Vegas probably also had direct contact with some of the devs? Or... OH NO! The Mittani! For his role on the CSM and because he was asked as a speaker on EVE Vegas...

Christ the feeling of entitlement is so big around this place it's blocking out the sun at this point. If you do special things in EVE (good or bad in your own opinion) you get special treatment. Bloggers get FREE (yes free, as in no money involved, SHOCKING!) media accounts. Are you going to vomit over that as well because not everyone has that privilege?

All in all it's very similar to this thing you might know, called life. Life is not fair and neither is EVE, both in and outside of the game. Don't like it? Do something about it.

P.S. Whining on a forum does not constitute 'doing something'.

Read the EULA, Genius. It isn't your stuff. It never was your stuff.

As for SomerBLINK, however screwed up the arrangement became, in the end, I believe CCP saw SomerBLINK GTC sales as another way to get and keep players in the game, another way to promote Eve Online. Was it haphazard and ill-thought out? yea, a lot of it was. And in the end, CCP changed their policy. End of story.

But my god, users of this forum want this to be fricken' Watergate. Give me a break.

As for being a Somer shill, I've never played SB, I've never bought GTC or anything else from them, and I generally consider gambling as a way to part fools from their money (or ISK, as the case may be.) I could care less if they vanished into thin air. I'm just bloody tired of the bitching and moaning, the tin-foil hattery, the absurd accusations and ideations of conspiracy and back-room deals.

Could CCP have handles this better? yea, probably. Could the community have reacted with a little more maturity and a little less self-entitlement? Judging by this and nearly ever other issue facing Eve players, probably not. That such a thing is true doesn't make it any less pathetic.