Originally by: Zekk Pacus

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Originally by: hybridundertaker

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3rd bob guys in local vanting about how they can get ccp to do stuff for them is more like a joke (did u notice they name their ship DEVS, u forgot to mention that hard proof) then any proof at all

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Whilst that may be tongue in cheek, why is that allowed? I'm fairly sure if I did it I'd have someone breathing down my neck...(one of my old corpies nearly got banned for having a name similar (NOT the same) to an NPC, so...)

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Originally by: Poolpy

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Originally by: Daveydweeb

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Edited by: Daveydweeb on 26/05/2007 01:09:51
Edited by: Daveydweeb on 26/05/2007 01:07:49
The story has been Slashdotted. That means it has now received coverage there, at Digg and IGN

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\o/ yay, front page on slashdot, gg CCP. Continue like this, and your customer will be only farmer and BoB player!

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Originally by: ApathyKills

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Originally by: Rebellion

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The goon rage for the sake of righteousness would be believable if you showed equal outrage at your leadership making real money profit from your time cards. Or at the real world angle to the gaming activities of the people you ally yourselves with.

Why am I not surprised that SA goons have also started spamming sladhdot and digg too? If you're really interested in the truth, you'd wait for CCP to post their side before spamming this all over the place. You would even be able to wait until CCP says something that you supposedly have "proof" otherwise, and make them look all the more like liars. But no, it's much better to raise hell and get as much attention as you can, and keep spamming the allegations for the off chance that people that read take it at face value, you'd even create these people if you had to, if only to make it appear that 3rd party individuals actually do believe something wrong is going on.

If you really hated how CCP run EVE for legitimate reasons, you'd just quit and stop paying them. But no, you have a real axe to grind, and want to take the game down. It's not enough that you stop paying CCP for their game, you want other people to stop paying too, so that CCP gets hurt more.

Would you get geek cred by being able to claim that you pwned EVE? Most of you play this game because of a desire to ridicule the stereotype of the playerbase, just like what you did with Second Life.

At this point, I don't know of CCP even thinks it's worth putting up with goon antics just for their monthly subscriptions. Perhaps goons anticipate that too, and thus want to make their monthy subscription worth more in that they would seek to influence other players to make their pressure group weigh more in the eyes of CCP.

At any rate, when you do leave EVE, I hope it would be after your fleets learn to focus fire on primaries. It requires the same discipline as copying and pasting the same text all over the forums.

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This isn't the Goons that are raging. This is EVE.

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Originally by: Magritz

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I love "post away" threads like this one. It's akin to letting a child cry and scream. "He'll get over it.."

Like t20.. there's outrage and people go back to their business.

I honestly don't understand why CCP isn't forthcoming. They don't seem to take much stock in their credibility.

Is it cultural? An Icelandic thing?

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Originally by: Bozse

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Originally by: Prall Grosserbauch

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PS I'm curious as to what possible reason you could have for wanting to keep allegations of developer misconduct hidden from the general populace

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Underlined the reason for u.

Originally by: Prall Grosserbauch

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Edited by: Prall Grosserbauch on 27/05/2007 19:46:52
Edited by: Prall Grosserbauch on 27/05/2007 19:45:51

Originally by: Rod Blaine

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hey also seem to coincidentally have chosen the exact most opportune time to escalate it to this level if their goal where to be to be able to get it escalated to the maximum possible extent before CCP get up to speed investigating and explaining the accusationis.

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Timestamp of Kugutsumen's first post on the Raekhan incident 2007-05-25, 02:23 PM (I won't post the link for obvious reasons but it's easily verifiable)
Timestamp of CEO Pyrex's first post regarding the Sharkbait incident on Goonfleet forums 2007-05-25, 16:25 (Orange Species will be able to confirm if asked)

So, no, this is not been something we've been sitting on for days or weeks waiting to unleash.

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So u waited a whooping 14h for the issue to be investigated and resolved before starting to spam the forums demanding answers.

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Originally by: Liang Nuren

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Originally by: Popsikle

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But didnt you say yourself you have no reason to belive anything BoB says?

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Well, it comes down to two things:

A) BOB has (in the past), been known for cheating. Further admissions of cheating would come as no surprise - thus this is entirely believable.

B) BOB is the one doing financial harm to CCP - by directly admitting to cheating (via out of game, privileged, personal, friendly communications with the CCP GM/Dev teams.

Liang

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