EVE General Discussion

We seem to have drifted off topic, sorry my fault.

I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. As always I let some edge cases stay.
Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil!

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This is the crux of the entire issue here: the GTC reseller program seems to be the way it is because CCP doesn't mind a little bit of the pie going to 'community sites' or the reseller sites, as it is good for the game; the players benefit directly from it, or the company benefits from it by virtue of free advertising of their product (in the form of selling time codes). Those small losses are 'acceptable costs' of doing business, it can be looked at money being reinvested into the community.

The point where this all breaks down is when a 'community site' starts working on the basis of profit as a primary goal, not an an incidental to providing their community service. Now while everyone is quick to point fingers at Somer about their income, it is still all speculative. But the point remains, just where is the line before an entity turns into a forbidden 'business'?

Somer increasing the payout sure makes them look guilty, but a smart individual has data to cover their 'business'. If indeed the real life expenditures are much more than theorized, and the income is truly much smaller than speculated, Somer may have a leg to stand on, notwithstanding the illogical course of action after the new reseller directive.

I'm sure all of this is the main reason that CCP has kept quiet (even the GTC reseller policy chance was not officially announced); legal must be working overtime to sort this mess out while maintaining some sort of damage control.

You are going to be disappointing. CCP blatantly changes the subject or says "I'm not going to talk about that" in front of thousands of people when someone asks a question they don't want to answer. I'm not joking, they will straight up say they will not talk about something. So when this is brought up, they will just sidestep it and you will hear a bunch of screaming players at fanfest booing, but they won't give two fudges because what they honestly have to say would make everyone turn into a lynch mob.

Depends on a mixture of how lucky and clever you are. If you just blast it all on big blinks you could walk away with nothing or get lucky and blag a few capitals. Spread it over a few ~10m blinks or buy a large proportion of the tickets on a blink and you'd probably walk away with a reasonable bit of ISK.

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Cared enough to go to the forums about it!

I just saw this on Jesters latest blog

Source--http://jestertrek.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/blog-banter-50-changes.html

It reminds me of a child who has been caught doing something wrong and who refuses to go home and face his punishment.

CCP has allowed Somer to breach its EULA multiple times, encouraged the use of Somer Blink by allowing them into EvE Vegas and other events.

CCP needs to stop sulking like a little child apologize and actually enforce its own EULA, it originally put in place to safe guard the game it built.

Rather than sulking in a corner hoping it goes away.

Lol no DNSBLACK started this and numerous blogs wrote about it.

BL further proving to appear 'good' at this game you just need 1 or 2 clever players and 100s just about able to muster the cognitive agility to remember a password containing at least one number.