In-Game Events and Gatherings

Thank god Sommer also did the good thing and stopped theirs rather than increasing the payout by 5X.

I'm slightly confused by all the Somer Blink hate here.
I think the only people who have done anything wrong is CCP when they favoured Somer by giving them very valuable free stuff. - and that issue has been dealt with.

Why the all somer hate? Somer appear to be preparing to abide by the new rules just like everyone else. Somer have an offer on to try and squeeze some extra cash out of the 10 day grace period. I've actually taken the offer, but thats a personal choice thing.
Somer look like they are going to abide by the new rules and hopefully won't get any more special treatment by CCP.
That's all good.
Why the hate?

You mean other than the fact all of the other sites have stopped and Somer blink has increased their off bu 5 times.

It shows them for what they are, a business milking the EvE community for as much RL money they can get.

almost everyone else who tried similar schemes recently had threads locked and was threatened. Somer has made over $135K USD from the affiliate GTC sales through to May of this year. they certainly shouldn't be needing a cash buffer, although Andrev Nox keeps playing the starving server admin defence. regardless of that though, they operate as a for-profit corp. and should have to fund themselves out of their own pocket the same way others do. if they can't afford to operate and make trillions of isk in profit, they should scale back or close down.

someone earlier posted that cogdev's domain owner closed a deal on a pretty expensive commercial space the same month they renegotiated their affiliate program back in May. while i can't verify this, if true, it does make for some interesting reading between the lines for :tinfoil: crew. there was also something mentioned about things being register in Panama to avoid taxes and regulations. take these tidbits as you will when deciding if Somer sounds like a 'trusth worthy' and 'honourable' 'community service'.

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.

you didn't profit from their misfortune at all. you helped them cash out closer to their goal of hundreds of thousands more in profit. and as Somer has given CCP and the community a big **** you, who's to say they won't just RMT the remaining isk through more traditional methods after the 7 days are over? they certain don't have integrity or ethics to hold them back. a ban makes sense in this situation. Somer has flagrantly RMTed and shows no signs of stopping.

Its not new rules it was always against the rules.

Yeah that ELUA looks pretty clear to me.
Which then makes me wonder if it's so clearly against the terms of the ELUA why hasn't it been enforced before?
CCP clearly has been fine with Somer up until someone else decided to do the same thing.

I still thinks this reflects far more poorly on CCP than Somer. To give special preferential treatment to someone who is breaking the ELUA is just a farce. - Nothing new from CCP there then.

You actually GOT these items and isk, or you "got" them, and "re-invested" them (e.g. blink credit)