Mar vel
Caldari
H.Y.D.R.A.
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.02.07 21:59:00 -
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For a guy who swore to never post, you sure do have a lot to say.
IMO, you're behaving like an idiot b/c you read what people are saying and you don't understand what people are saying.
Conflict of interest.
Favoritism.
Informational superiority.
Goods and Services.
Preferential Treatment.
For a Development group who is focused on balance as a means of promoting a democratic, fair, level playing field, this pretty much nukes the theory (unless you apply the "only if it doesn't conflict with Rule #1)
Rule #1 is I am a CCP Dev and therefore this game is my sandbox. I could care less about how what I do impacts the community and the title, and frankly, if all of you left tomorrow I would be rid of a big bag of whiners.
I don't care if a Dev account is retired; they broke the rules (leaking identity) and that's the punishment (which they self imposed) - why should I feel badly about that?
Given that they're just renamed anyway, it's hardly a collosal setback.
And FYI, Pal, you alliance benefitted big-time -ANY capacity, goods, materials, informaiton, etc. that came out of those relationships gave you huge advantages over the competition.
CCP: Want to make things better without getting repeatedly kicked in the balls?
1. Solve the issue with the T2 Marketplace.
Break out the T2 BPO's onto the NPC market. Declared the whole system pointless, and re-engineer it starting with T3 BPO's from the ground up. Do it right this time.
2. Put a Dev in each alliance to ensure uniform participation. In the cases where smaller alliances exist, one dev can service multiple alliances.
3. Sanction some kind of equitible distribution of property to the alliances that DID NOT benefit from haveing multiple Devs in their structures.
Then you have al least STARTED to repair the damage and made an equitable, fair, good faith effort to repairing the damage done.
Or....
Continue to create an untrusting, undemocratic environment where you guys get to wear your conflict avoider hats and stack the deck in a player/corp/alliance's favor. Given that there are 20 total developers, it's hardly realistic to ask the community to believe that no trangressions have taken place, no advatages given, when 1/4 of your entire Dev staff is playing in BoB.
...and for those of you who think that these kinds of issues are random events, believe me when I tell you that they are not. This has been going on for a long, long time. It's just that CCP Devs finally got caught on a big one.
 Originally by: Ab Initio
Originally by: Anonymous Coward
Even when that developer is the manager of your capital ship program and has direct knowledge of your account-sharing cynonet?
Apart from the fact that account sharing is a no no, I wouldnt care what position a Dev was playing on a standard account.
People seem to focus on "devs" so much that they forget that they're actual people. People are cheering because (according to the OP) 3 years vets of the game are being forced to quit, not because they did anything wrong, but because they were named.
Imagine you had been playing EVE for 3 years, and suddenly had to quit the game through no fault of your own. That's the outcome of witch hunts.
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