Originally by: F'nog

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I'm constantly amazed at how CCP can make boneheaded moves again and again. They do something really stupid and you say to yourself, "Surely they can't do something worse (or at least as dumb)." And then they do.

It's like they've followed the Bill Clinton guide to problem solving (note that I'm a Democrat and voted for him twice, and would do so again, but I have no problem looking at his stupid decisions):

Bill: "Did we do anything wrong?"
Aide: "No."
Bill: "Cover it up anyway."

Now I'm not saying nothing wrong was done here, because it seems to me and others that it was, but I hope you get the idea of how it's farcical sort of parallel.

CCP dev: "Did we do anything wrong?"
GM: "Yes, and everyone knows it."
dev: "OK, give them some lame-ass excuse that even a blind, deaf child with an IQ of 40 could poke holes in."

It all comes to the same thing, as we've seen before: player outrage over something really stupid and unneeded.

I will give CCP credit for screwing up in a new and interesting way. In the past, most of their big mistakes have been from my first little drama: What happened? This. OK, let's not just say what happened and no one will care. The past transgressions usually weren't even a "We made a mistake" sort of scenario, they were the, "Let's completely overreact and just not tell them how things played out so they'll see there wasn't an actual problem, that way they'll overreact even more and threadnaught about it until we finally do explain what really happened and everyone will be happy." The Moon Mining fiasco seemed to show they had learned from this. Apparently whoever handled that is on vacation right now.

Note that I don't like BOB or Goons, and generally don't give a frak what they do or happens to them. But I do care when something incredibly stupid happens that is so overwhelmingly contrary to everything that has happened before.

I hope CCP comes to their senses and gives an actual explanation of things. I don't care if it's "We screwed up and will make things right" or "Here is the evidence to back up our move." Clearly neither has happened yet.

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