Deepspace Wanderer
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Posted - 2007.05.30 02:14:00 -
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"Since last Friday, an unnamed corporation posted over 4000 times on EVE's message boards concerning these allegations. In addition, 1046 posts were made on Digg.com; 235 comments were added on Slashdot; and made multiple EVE-related edits on Wikipedia. Each of these sites was hit within a few hours of each other, at the start of the three-day Memorial Day weekend in the US and a three-day weekend in Iceland, all referencing unfounded allegations ł now proven to be false ł that occurred three weeks ago or longer.
The volume and timing of these near-simultaneous references is no coincidence: we were the target of a carefully constructed and well-timed social engineering effort by one of the largest player groups in our community. The intention? To undermine EVE Online and the credibility of CCP Games.
More specifically, the objective of this scheme was to permanently paint CCP as a biased and corrupt company that favors a select group of players over the rest of our community. In this particular case, instead of receiving notification of a possible problem and sufficient time to examine and address it, we faced a coordinated and hostile attack executed on our forums, Digg, Wikipedia, Slashdot, and other outlets at the beginning of a three-day weekend. We believe this speaks volumes of the intention of the person(s) responsible for orchestrating this scheme. Verification of this can be readily found on the forums of the people responsiblełor at least could, the last time we looked.
Claims that the goal of this effort was to expose corruption within the company cannot be taken seriously. They are simply a smokescreen intended to mobilize and use the EVE community against CCP. There is no evidence to support the claim of information sent to CCP concerning internal corruption and wrongdoings on the part of our employees is being systematically suppressed.
The fact that this attack took place over a holiday weekend was especially revealing of motive, which we believe was specifically by design to ensure that CCP would not be able to react as fast and efficiently as we would under normal circumstances. The allegations investigated above by this internal affairs department will also be examined by our legal resources, as we do not intend to sit idly by while our servers, community and reputation are under attack. "
No mention of the original thread, which was deleted without comment by CCP, which instigated the whole threadnaught.
Maybe, just maybe, if you would look into issues as soon as they are raised, instead of deciding "Meh, don't care -*delete*" this whole situation could have been avoided, and people wouldn't bee angry at their perception of poor customer service.
I'm not saying that when the Goons did was right, in the end, but that seems to be what it takes to get your attention. Be a bit more responsive to player concerns, and things will hopefully not ever come to this again.
Thanks to all of the ppl involved in the investigation for their efforts in this trying (if somewhat self-inflicted) time.
PS : BoB + CCP + MSN...not really covered, does that mean that that particular point is still under investigation, or that you've decided "Meh, don't care?"
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