Dana Serenity
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Posted - 2007.05.26 11:59:00 -
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First of all, a quick comment; This post is NOTHING to do with anybody's opinion of BoB or Goons or anybody's like or dislike of them. I will not make any accusations of CCP, rigging or anything like that. I am just posting commenting on the letter sent to CCP and the reply we all got.
What Apparently Happened
A Dev joined a corporation and promoted himself to director, shortly (approx 15mins) after he resigned from that corp. The corp in question did not know about this until they checked their audit logs and discovered what that dev did. CCP has stated that the Dev was just doing his job and joined the corp as a director to fix a bug. This caused uproar within that corp/alliance and petitions were apparently sent to CCP and the forums were bombarded with posts regarding the incident. The temporary closing of the forums and the apparent deletion of filed petitions regarding this incident has lead to even further distrust of CCP and the Devs.
Brief comment
So if the Dev was indeed fixing a bug by temporarily joining the corp, fine!. Anybody who programs games will know that some minor bugs can be fixed temporarily ingame and the root cause of that problem can be fixed at a later date in a patch. Personally, if this is the case, then the Dev was indeed doing his job as he should however the way he went about it caused the majority of these problems. Had he followed simple procedures which should be in place (and if not in place, WHY NOT CCP?) most of this would never have happened. If these procedures are in place and the Dev simply did not follow them, then he should be in trouble for that though obviously not such a severe reprimand is needed if this is the case.
What should have happened?
A Dev discovers a problem which is fixable ingame temporarily but requires him to join a corporation as a director to fix. First and foremost, he should have sent an Evemail to that corporation notifying them exactly what he is about to do, why he is doing it and what they should notice when they check everything including what will show up in the audit logs. Only after the evemail is sent should he then join the corp as a director and do his job. Once done, he himself should open a petition to the directors/CEO of that corp allowing for feedback, comments and even complaints for a limited time.
By following these simple procedures laid above, the corporation would not only have expected what they discovered but also would know exactly why it happened. Suspicions would not have grown to the level it has. Don't get me wrong, there would still be suspicions. The fact that CCP was not deemed very forthcoming about this situation and other ones like it, has lead to even more distrust which needs to be addressed by CCP directly. Hopefully CCP you can learn from this experience and from now on make sure that simple procedures are in place so this sh*tstorm doesn't happen again.
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