CCP Speaks on Allegations of Misconduct in Eve

Arti writes "Last week the hacker spoke, raising questions for many about how game companies should deal with 'out of game' tactics. What about the game companies themselves? The man behind Kugutsumen.com alleged that CCP employees had been involved too intimately with the game's top alliance, Band of Brothers (who, ironically, have publicly described themselves as 'omnipotence itself'). These claims were made based on posts apparently hacked from the alliance's private forums. CCP promised to look into the allegations. Now they report in a post that many players say is inadequate and does nothing to address a crisis of confidence in CCP's oversight of its employees. Developers need to understand the games they make, and deserve to enjoy them, but how far? And what should a company do when an issue like this pits it against some of its own customers?" Blues News has an excellent summary of the thread's contents, distressing though they be.

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It's not the 'out of game' issues, it's the devs..

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Really. All games have 'out of game' issues.

But when you have the Dev's and other employees breaking the rules and cheating by using their special priviledges, well that is a whole different story. If you're paying RL money to play in Eve, I wouldn't be surprised if this constituted as fraud (IANAL).

CCP is at fault here (Big Time) for letting their Dev's and GM's play in the game as regular players and not making sure they didn't cheat. They're more at fault for not dealing with the cheating (by firing said Dev's and GM's) when the people paying to play the game complained.

Why people are playing Eve anymore now that this has been exposed is beyond me.