EVE General Discussion

Typical of your fashion, you keep repeating things hoping they'll come true when everyone knows they won't.

Well clearly Somer is palsy with Lisa "Enjoying the rain today? ;)" and kept that email in case anyone notices anything fishy about their current promotion which they did.

Blah, blah, blah. Same as last year. An "investigation" that will "take a while" and then... nothing.

Squeeze out those last dollars while you can.

Minus the plex buying, it is what they do, buy articles for isk, get money from adds.
TMC or Evenews24 doesnt buy just any article from anyone either.

You dont need to do any of that, you just cant offer a "bonus" or in game incentive to buy plex from you vs. anyone else. They established that last year.

Last year was actually quite different.
There were two separate issues, or three really.
Firstly, there was Somer manipulating IWS prices, which were given out to about six different community groups, not just Somer. And was just a straight up market manipulation. Shady given it was a community reward, but no worse than anything the Goons have done with their Ice interdictions to give another market manipulation example.

Secondly there was the ships they were given to raffle out, poor choice by CCP, which people complained would devalue the Golden Magnate, so CCP changed them for a totally new ship.

Finally there was the 'RMT scandal'.... except there never was one. There was a change in CCP's policies on third party sellers, of which nearly all were using the same incentive scheme as Somer was. The reason Somer came up was because when the 'cease & desist' was issued as a policy change by CCP, the other schemes all changed asap, while Somer actually increased their scheme running right up until the cut off date with it.

So last year was not a question of actual RMT since the schemes till that time had CCP's approval for 'everyone' to use, not just Somer. Nor was it a question of contract fraud or anything of the sort.
This year there are those real questions.

So, very different case.

First Chribba's unusally sharp jab at CCP. Then Goons and Dinsdale in agreement in the same thread. The ****'s happenning in here?!

As a former writer for TMC, that's not how they behave/operate at all. They pay the contributor in ISK only for EVE "Universe" articles (EVE Online, DUST 514, EVE Valkyrie etc.) this policy also includes videos and streaming fleets/large fights. They don't just pay a writer for a non-EVE article with EVE's in-game money as that is against CCP's policy which was previously linked to you. Any coverage not pertaining to EVE is compensated in a different fashion and has no ISK or PLEX or GTC involved whatsoever. This could be, for example, using the site's role as a news outlet to obtain press pass keys for a game they intend to cover, which has been done, and so forth. That behavior has no bearing on their role in providing EVE coverage as that is a separate policy/rules of operation they are required to follow. As for "doesnt buy just any article from anyone either" that's due to, in TMC's case, quality control and preference for not having poorly written and grammatically incorrect pieces thrown out there.

I won't hold my breath; the last thread about SOMERBlink's obvious RMT actions spiraled out o control because CCP didn't take it seriously. We were told we'd be updated regularly, and weeks after we were told a statement was coming out the thread was unstickied and no one gave a damn.

Expecting another slap on the wrist for SOMER, because you never listen to us anyways.

Oh my gawd... I don't know what to say about this OP. I simply lack of words that could describe how disappointed I am by this piece of PR sh!t.

And CSM, those bubbleheads nodding obediently and praising how well CCP reacted? Geez...

You talked all day and all you came up with is "investigation".
Because apparently "buy PLEX from me and I will buy it back at Jita price + x" is not clear enough.