EVE General Discussion

It's funny you say that. I think the players, with this legitimized RMT thing, just wardeced CCP.

he didn't lotto the character. he lotto'ed a chance to bid on the character.

As the owner of the char "Daquaris" whom to my knowledge is the only one to have ever ripped blink AND chribba (thanks for that tower, next time scoop faster) off, I was wondering the same thing.

$1500 in Uncle Daq's Lucky funtime super happy not isk lotto tickets sounds about right to me.

e: Confirmation https://twitter.com/Daquaris/status/391105496620343296

ITT: CCP learns what happens when keeping it real goes wrong

Did they change it. I know you used to be able to and there was a stink over someone laundering their money via Somer by buying all of the blinks.

either way around it means that you are more than likely to get some of the blink isk converted into real isk, the actual decline percentage matters little.

A common misconception about power is that people believe once they are gifted it they can retain it without any effort.
The reason the CSM have no power is because they do not try to dominate with pack mentality and solidarity. (i`m looking at you in this case Teg).
If this doesn`t work they need to gain support from a high powered group (ie players) , giving them power by proxy. Then they can apply dominance.

The CSM has no power because they choose to have no power and hide behind the excuse of NDA`s etc as if CCP has them tied up in legal knots.
Balderdash.... they can lobby player support, without telling players what the next SOMER paintjob looks like.

"it`s like taking a knife to a gunfight " is implying that someone lost an engagement by being ill prepared or not equally capable, the man with the gun has the power.
There are kings amongst men who can enter a gunfight unarmed and de-escalate to a peaceful resolution, in turn they can enter peaceful negotiations with an assault rifle. These are the true holders of power.
All this CSM has no power QQ is bullshit, you are weak because you do not act , lobby or attack.

Going by dnsblack's character selling process, you have to enter the lottery to be able to buy the character. It is an intrinsic part of the process of buying the character. You can argue all you want about semantics, but if CCP decide that the quoted part of the ToS apply to the whole process and not just the final exchange step, expect bio massed characters and many many tears. If this happens, anyone who gets upset about it should realise it's not a court of law but a court of CCP and their mighty swinging todger of doom.

Or alternatively you could view it as being a very sensible measure to have in place because sale & transfer of characters is a considerably different beast when compared to say, a Damage Control II (soundwave might like that reference). As far as I know, the "no lottery" rule for selling characters has been around for many years. Getting upset about it now is somewhat silly. Accounts / characters must surely have as much protection as possible.

It's a shame that dnsblack didn't make his point by selling say, an iScorp (lovely irony!) using this method as things would get really interesting. As it is, CCP could, if they so choose to, easily justify a ban hammer and bio mass due to it being a character sale. However, now that players are selling limited edition ships via the lottery / RL money method, I'm looking forward to see what ccp shall do.

There is a great deal of difference between a character and an item. The damage done by selling items for example 600 plex via this method is a lot more damaging to the game and if they included the whole process people would rightfully be asking why they don't include the whole process for the others and especially the gambling sites that started this.

Yo Handsome, there was no paid lottery for a character at any stage. So no buying of a character was ever part of this process.

The lottery was a freebie for those who buy gtc, an incentive to buy from DNS; the cash for GTC is separate from the lottery. The cash for gtc is legal. The offering of freebies via made up currency to boost your sales is legal. Link these two together and you have a winner.

This is the legal sleight of hand that makes rmt into not-rmt.

This is what we do not like.

Oh, and buy my plex twelve pack at 50% the price of CCP's! What about an ISK injection? I do those too... Get those unique ships you always dreamed about. Check out the 'In-Game Events and Gatherings' part of this very forum as that is where CCP said these EVE stuffz to fake currency to raffle to $$$ should go.