Setana Manoro
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2007.02.07 19:19:00 -
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I have not been in the game long enough to remember the Scorpion incident or other such incidents - only for the last 9 months, but in those months i have read the forum, and other fan forums enough.
I learned about this incident through Ander's post on eve-pirate, and that article makes even more sense now then it did when i read it the first time.
BoB have been accused of having devs in they're backyard ... who cares, they are probably in most major alliances. BoB have denied it when they knew it was true ... that sucks because now they lose credibility.
They are arguably the most succesfull alliance in the game and when a corp that belongs to this alliance is found to harbor 5 chars played by devs one of whom had a position of leadership, then it is not ok anymore. Because like it was said "devs are human too", yes they are human, that right there is a huge conflict of interests. You can't maintain all the time a cool head in a game where you cannot save, where everything you do now affects what happens to you tomorrow. Stupid things or getting annoyed over a game is bound to happen, and when you have acces to certain info it is hard not to give yourself or you're close friends help.
I don't want to see devs lose they're positions in 0.0 alliances because EVE is in a continous state of Beta testing and that would make matters even worse, but damnit, t20 told them that he was a dev, that fact was known by the alliance leaders. So now you know there was a little fire in the tabloid like posts of Mr.K.
Then you look at the reply's between them, regarding before knowledge of game events, of inside info, of a lot of things that could give the most powerfull alliance in the game even more advantages.
Now you wonder how much of it is true, sure CCP can't verify the authenticity of what K. sent them, as the BoB forum is probably privately owned domain, but they can verify how the events were conducted, who has the bpo's and if the bpo's were generated out of thin air.
I can't feel sorry for the dev in question, it was you're mistake to make and someone actually posted a threat you made on this here forum along the lines of "will be on my characters ****list till the day i die".
All of these put together put up against the response Kieron gave stinks to high-heaven. You didn't adress the most important issues here ... most of the ppl don't care if the dev in question lost his chars and friends, booohooohooo cry me a river, he made a mistake and he should accept the consequences. The issue is wether the game is rigged or not because that affects you're credibility CCP a lot, more then maybe you have realised so far Kieron.
I don't want to see the dev who misbehaved get fired as it was just a mistake in a game, who can affect his life, but i do want to see that there are in-game repercusions if and when such allegations are proven especially on those that benefited from dev-assistance if this is proven. So far you're answer Kieron is around of ideea "move along, nothing to see here" which blows for most of the player-base.
I will not leave this game, but untill there is a clear answer from CCP, i can't recommend it to my friends.
PS: Sorry for my lack of grammar skills, English is not exactly my first language. :)
PPS: BoB trolls, you do know that the bob-hate generated in this thread is a direct result of you're snotty attitude toward other players, right ?
Don't be so surprised that many hate you're guts.
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