EVE Online Scandal Deliberate Frame-Job?

Last Friday, we discussed serious allegations leveled against CCP by players of the game. The comments on the discussion were lively, and pointed. Perhaps a bit too pointed, as CCP's internal affairs investigation claims that a plot to smear the company with false accusations over the long holiday weekend was behind the flurry of online activity. "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 responsible--or at least could, the last time we looked." Scott Jennings over at Broken Toys points the finger at the Goon Fleet corporation, an organization based out of the Something Awful forums. As I noted in the original post, the evidence presented on both sides is challenging to verify independently. Take everything you read about these events with a grain of salt.

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Re:misleading, as always

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"...Intersetallar Kredits(ISK) are worth a lot of real-world money..."

Only if you want them to be...it's a choice you make to enable this.

"...As for the Goons, EVE is known as a game where it's best to try to cheat as much as you can in hopes of getting away with it..."

How is this any different than Korporate, USA?

Real-life you arte kind of stuck with, EOL is a choice you make to jump into- you can always not play.

That's why I cnnot garner any sympathy for this.

Hey you kids!!! Get off of my lawn!!!!