Ashareth
Caldari
Disturbed Hoggs
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Posted - 2007.02.12 15:15:00 -
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It's funny to see that nearly all of thoses who ask to calm down, repeat it's just a game, demand proof and so on... are alts and others without corp or/and alliance ticker activated...
So much for assuming what you are.
On another note, as i told friends, for me, like many others, the point and problem is NOT that a dev/gm played and cheated.
It was bound to happens, it happened in nearly every mmorpg ever made.
(yes, at the moment where people have powers on a game, some of them will go over the edge and cheat for their own advantage or friend's advantage, it's Human nature[and not the best part of it]).
The only thing is that, in Eve, with the single shard, one of those cheating is affecting ALL the player base instead of just one server. And worst of all, with the player driven way of Eve, even people not directly opposing the side helped are affected.
The problem is that CCP tried to use the "hide our head in the sand, there is no problem" policy, when everyone knows it doesn't work EVE.
It'll still be a time when somebody will find out and spread the word. And at this time, it's worse than ever.
It's what happened there.
CCP admitted they caught t20 cheating in JUNE 06... and did nearly nothing, even authorized him to leave some of his ill-gained riches to his corp(and from rumors, his alts in RKK...).
And instead of coming clear with it, suspending all implicated parties until an investigations was lead and informing the community, they tried to hide it.
It took despisable actions from Kugusts and co and full disclosure to the community, with nearly a revolt to only get a minimal explanation and a sacrificial lamb offered(and not fully since he is still working at CCP and playing Eve, probably with the same account and only name/portrait/history reset..:().
It's not what is asked here.
The community NEED to have informations, guarentess, things that can be verified and trusted.
First, CCP should review their policies, specially banning policies, and make them REALLY clear and public.
Second, they should make CCP's policy about dev/gm/ISD playing and the sanctions induced by violations of these rules, public.
Third, we should have a list of bans, either forums/sisi/tq bans, of all banned, the duration and the reason.
Four, we should have a direct way to report possible dev/gm/isd abuse to the IA department.
If it's the dev/gm/ISD members that review those petition, there is a BIG chance the IA dpt never see them....
And at last, we need to know what mecanisms they implemented to be sure nothing like that ever happens again(no 6 months of continued exploiting of ill gained goods until removal, no trying to hide it from the community, etc), and try to regain the community trust.
The most important thing in there is the trust of the community, but the way it was handled too.
What impedes others devs inn BoD or other alliances to cheat now?
The worst they could have is the renaming of their char and a slap on the wrist, since T20 is now a precedent.
Why whenn isk buyers and others cheaters are caught ALL their transactions ingame are canceled, including the valind ones their clients had no knowledge of, and when a dev is caught handling t2 bpos(worth dozens of billions isks...) thoses bpos are left to his corp, and nothing is done on the transactions made with them?
It's THAT that makes Eve and CCP looks bad, that and the poorly managed communication.
Nearly all major gaming sites have done an article on Eve/CCP, even made first page on The Register and Slashdot. Everyone is waiting to know how CCP handle this, and all we know is some BS PR(and pretty bad too, even starforce PR is better, and their are terrible at it...:(), and no answers unless you count the minimal recognition of T20(you don't risk your work for so little things, once you go that way you go ALL the way everyone knows that...).
I love Eve, i respect CCP, but they boteched this. We need ANSWERS!!!
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