Tag: RMT

CCP brings gambling back to EVE Online with Hypernet Relay

Posted on: November 27, 2019 /

Categories: Dev Blogs, EVE Community, General Gaming News

CCP has just made an announcement that has both shocked and outraged many within the EVE Online community. CCP brings gambling back to EVE Online with Hypernet Relay, a specialized raffle system built into the game client. Those of you who were involved in EVE Online back in the SomerBlink days, or after that during

Gambling, EVE Online, and the influence of RMT

Posted on: August 14, 2018 /

Categories: EVE Community, I Want ISK, Opinion

Anyone who wasn’t around EVE Online in 2016 might not remember this, but there was a major kerfuffle in the game’s community over a popular gambling website that used the in-game currency, ISK, and it eventually got way out of control. The problem eventually got so impossible to ignore within the community, that the assumed

PUBG stops personal item trading to put an end to RMT

Posted on: May 3, 2018 /

Categories: General Gaming News

Real-money trading of items in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is just as big an issue as cheating. Where cheaters are being arrested for using hacks to deliver malware, the game economy is being disabled to prevent people paying to win by buying high-end or rare items. According to the most recent announcement from PUBG Corp, Personal Trading

CCP Announces New Botting Policy in Dev Blog

Posted on: February 12, 2018 /

Categories: Dev Blogs, EVE Community, General Gaming News

EVE Online has been free-to-play for a few months now, Since the major revamp of Alpha accounts in the Lifeblood and Ascension expansions. Since then though, a new enemy has emerged into the forefront of discussion in the EVE community. Mining and ratting are huge sources of ISK, and the majority of bots as well.

OpenCritic is working on displaying how loot boxes affect games

Posted on: October 9, 2017 /

Categories: General Gaming News

Loot boxes have infested gaming, their glorified and barely hidden gambling is becoming a scourge on modern gaming. In the same way that predatory microtransactions rooted in poor design have infected the mobile gaming market, loot boxes are just a way for greedy companies to bilk more money out of consumers. Lets be clear, I’m

Overlays, ISK Buyer Amnesty and Account Security

Posted on: February 23, 2016 /

Categories: Dev Blogs

Time to touch base on some things EVE’s Security Team has been working on and also discuss some golden oldies regarding account security. First a clarification on our rules and policies regarding overlays and other third party applications. EVE Online, Overlays, and You As we receive questions about overlays and EVE Online every now and

Blizzard launches court case against yet another bot developer

Posted on: November 13, 2015 /

Categories: General Gaming News, MMORPGs

Blizzard has a years-long history of going after the developers of tools that allow cheating or exploits in their games. And according to a filing in the US state of California, the developer behind the “Buddy” system of botting tools is their next target. James Enright and a group of unnamed defendants develop and sell

CCP makes clear changes to policy regarding videos and streaming

Posted on: June 24, 2015 /

Categories: Dev Blogs

There has always been a contentious debate centered around RMT within the EVE community, and recently the EVE community can count another semi-victory against RMT loopholes. After members of the EVE community of bloggers and broadcasters [namely EVE Radio’s DJ Wiggles and RMT chronicler NosyGamer] came out and disclosed communications from CCP on the subject

CCP Bans RMTers from Game, IWISK unblacklisted

Posted on: June 11, 2015 /

Categories: EVE Community, I Want ISK

Speculation about why I Want ISK was blacklisted has been going around for a while now. And today the cause has been revealed. Whispers in the EVE community about IWISK banker conducting RMT have been around since the beginning and it appears that yet more bankers have been banned for RMT. Below you’ll find the

I Want ISK Revenue, RMT, and why it’s a dumb idea

Posted on: March 31, 2015 /

Categories: I Want ISK

It's no secret that I Want ISK makes money. And a recent slew of people tried to claim they do that through RMT. Let's look at the math.

Alleged Scandal involving RMT and IWISK bankers [UPDATED] SITE OWNER RESPONDS

Posted on: March 31, 2015 /

Categories: I Want ISK

A Reddit user has disclosed an alleged RMT operation within certain bankers of the popular I Want ISK EVE gambling site. These allegations are allegedly the result of an investigation involving gaming-centric RMT site playerauctions, and as of yet unknown individuals.