Nethras
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.25 02:28:00 -
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That is... a lot of emails that you seem to be getting no reply on. Perhaps you should double check where you're sending them and that it is in fact an email address CCP actually reads. That said, I personally would not be comfortable basing how I handled such things based on a petition response as I'd have no real guarantee that even a senior GM had actually talked to the people running the tournament. Asking your questions on the forums about where CCP was drawing the line, and then bugging them through email, twitter, the CSM, and any other avenues you could think of until you got a response would have more or less guaranteed it was actually from the people organizing the tournament and left CCP with less room to potentially exclude you if you were in fact doing things differently this time around. I'm not quite sure why they're excluding both of your teams under that rule, though I could see them claiming difficulty declaring one of you the primary team.
MeBiatch wrote:i dont get it is this not EVE? so what two corps got in the finals metagamed and fixed the match? is this not what eve is about?
Metagaming between 2 teams seriously trying to win would usually only result in knowing their setup or on very rare occasions a spy openly betraying a team in the tournament arena. Throwing a game by picking a deliberately bad setup (or a setup that can be effectively hard countered and then telling the other team what you're bringing) isn't exactly very interesting to watch, but is hard to actually detect if not too blatant. Going out into the tournament arena and refusing to compete goes above and beyond metagaming, though I don't believe it's been specifically banned in the past (and perhaps not now). A team immediately turning and flying out of the arena as a group would clearly raise the question for CCP whether they wanted to have that team participate in future tournaments, and about the only difference between that and the AT9 final is that the AT9 final was 12 minutes long and far more boring. EVE metagaming is not usually about meaningless actions (they were clearly colluding enough to have agreed to split the prizes however they wanted regardless of outcome, so no real need to fix the match itself), and metagaming at CCP's expense usually doesn't turn out well.
All that said, none of this makes how CCP handled this any clearer with regards to where exactly the lines they don't want crossed are, though if it was partially based on something like CCP believing due to server-side evidence that there were people that had characters on both teams I'm not sure how free they'd be to express that. On the other hand, if this decision was at all based on the events of AT9 as opposed to the rule being in response to that and this being an independent enforcement of the rules, I'd be much more comfortable if CCP would come out and state that. |