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EVE Online: Worker Misconduct Allegations Addressed
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EvE Online Community Manager Kieron addresses the allegations of CCP employee misconduct on the EvE forums.
Our goal is to provide the best possible game, gaming experience and development process possible. In light of that, we would like to address the recent allegations of CCP employee misconduct. CCP has taken these charges very seriously and since they surfaced we have launched a thorough investigation consisting of an examination of character histories ranging back to their creation as well as into any connected characters owned by the developers involved. This examination was performed by the same internal division which is also tasked with standard periodic audits of all developer and volunteer accounts. Areas of investigation include, but are not limited to: messaging history, financial and transactional history, combat and corporation logs, item and cash transfers and IP logs.
As for the allegations themselves, they consist of two parts. The first part involved a case that happened seven months ago when a CCP employee's identity became public knowledge within his corporation. Per company policy, the incident was investigated and actions taken where appropriate, including the removal of characters whose identities were compromised.
The second part of the accusations stem from a leak of information pertaining to an in-game event arc. Due to the amount of time that has passed since the planning and execution of the event arc, we have not been able to confirm nor deny the veracity of these allegations.
In both cases, these accusations were recently brought forward when a player revealed the identity of numerous CCP employee characters. Since these play characters are known to belong to CCP employees, they will be removed from the game. Many of them have been around since the creation of EVE and it is most unfortunate that these developers are now forced to end their relationships with their in-game friends, but that is our policy when the anonymity of staff members has been compromised.
Last summer, CCP implemented stricter monitoring procedures and audits on all CCP employees' EVE accounts. We are confident that our rigid procedures and protocol will prevent any misconduct or, at least, allow us to quickly discover it, should such an unfortunate scenario arise.
As the community knows well, we at CCP enjoy not only playing EVE Online, but improving EVE and interacting with our playerbase. We feel EVE benefits from the developers playing EVE as any other members of the community do, and to impose artificial limitations -- such as no access to Tranquility or special flagging on a developer's player character -- would greatly hinder the development of EVE.
CCP is very passionate about EVE Online and is committed to its continued growth. We hope that this statement will put this issue behind us once and for all and allow us to continue moving forward with the support of our community.
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It's a sad day for EVE
Oh well some developer decided to release aload of info and ruin the game for other developers : What a retard.
I don't see why your blaming CCP? This could happen in any company, atleast CCP are doing sumthing about it right away.
It wasnt CCP that screwed, it was a retard DEV
Once again???? CCP isnt SOE
How is CCP screwing you exactly?
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Did you not read the article?
I left late last year just before the newest update, having played since 2004. I miss my friends there but the game will drive you mad if you let it.
I left in 2004 though :P I didn't like all the new updates
Played from release 2003 to mid 2004
Well yes I did. But you have to read kieros first post too, and the allegations brought forward by Kugutsumen. Was or wasn't Dianabolic sworn to secrecy by CCP? I can't find that out in kierons post. Did RKK get 10 T2 BPO:s off Ishos (a developer called t20) when he was outed as an developer by someone? I can't find that answer in kierons post either. If so, is that ok with CCP? Exactly how did Dianabolic know Ishos was outed as a dev by an alt and not someones main? Why was that person afraid (sensible enough) a mere player like Dianabolic should get information on who petitioned Ishos as a dev to get him out of Band of Developers to use an alt and not his main?
As you can see CCP hasn't answered shit and made no attempt to clear their name and apparently probably won't either.
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Well yes I did. But you have to read kieros first post too, and the allegations brought forward by Kugutsumen. Was or wasn't Dianabolic sworn to secrecy by CCP? I can't find that out in kierons post. Did RKK get 10 T2 BPO:s off Ishos (a developer called t20) when he was outed as an developer by someone? I can't find that answer in kierons post either. If so, is that ok with CCP? Exactly how did Dianabolic know Ishos was outed as a dev by an alt and not someones main? Why was that person afraid (sensible enough) a mere player like Dianabolic should get information on who petitioned Ishos as a dev to get him out of Band of Developers to use an alt and not his main?
As you can see CCP hasn't answered shit and made no attempt to clear their name and apparently probably won't either.
"Since these play characters are known to belong to CCP employees, they will be removed from the game."
How is that not a resolution?
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How is that not a resolution?
It doesn't answer any of the questions. If you're interested read kugutsumens forum. If that's a resolution, then as far as we know devs will continue to join BoB, out themselves as devs to BoB:s top brass, donate isk and BPO:s, leak game mechanisms and other CCP secrets , turn a blind eye to bannable EULA violations until they're outed on eve-o by a hacker. When that happens they retire the character or change it's name and start all over again.
How is that not a resolution?
It doesn't answer any of the questions. If you're interested read kugutsumens forum. If that's a resolution, then as far as we know devs will continue to join BoB, out themselves as devs to BoB:s top brass, donate isk and BPO:s, leak game mechanisms and other CCP secrets , turn a blind eye to bannable EULA violations until they're outed on eve-o by a hacker. When that happens they retire the character or change it's name and start all over again.
I'm sure that misbehaving devs will get their due back in the office. it is not in the interest of the company to have employees who make the company look like a bunch of fools. I hope that people value their jobs enough not to make asses out of themselves. "When that happens they retire the character or change it's name and start all over again WITH A NEW JOB BECAUSE THEY GOT FIRED FOR BEING STUPID." developers are a great asset, but they are replaceable when they start to bring the company down.
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BoB cheats not CCP. Good job CCP.
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That's not a resolution because no action was taken against those who benefited from the devs actions. BoB should be disbanded and anyone in BoB who was directly interacting in a manner not in keeping with the rules should be banned.
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I've had the chance to meet with and speak to Keiron at length(not about this issue). He's a good man. If there's anything he can do to put this right.. Trust me he'll do it.
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what do you mean? They found that in fact there were devs in bob who let bob know they were devs. Action has been taken on what they've found so far. They aren't done looking. Now that they know BoB had devs in it that were in fact breaking the rules by letting people know they were CCP employees i'm sure they'll find more. Baseless? Seems to me they found the evidence to suggest just the opposite.
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I'll withold my judgement a few more days, at least they can get some time to find the "evidence" and come clean. Even so, I prefer a game where 99% of the devs play their own game, as passionately as the rest. There's always at least one rotten apple in any barrel. Won't stop med from eating fruit.
what do you mean? They found that in fact there were devs in bob who let bob know they were devs. Action has been taken on what they've found so far. They aren't done looking. Now that they know BoB had devs in it that were in fact breaking the rules by letting people know they were CCP employees i'm sure they'll find more. Baseless? Seems to me they found the evidence to suggest just the opposite.
I said "most of the allegations". That one thing isn't really something that worry me.
Well i actually cancelled my account because of the Alliances in 0.0. They just plain suck. BoB, IRON, D2, PA, ASCN they all lie to their members. It's hard to fight for something when you know you're being fed lies.
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what do you mean? They found that in fact there were devs in bob who let bob know they were devs. Action has been taken on what they've found so far. They aren't done looking. Now that they know BoB had devs in it that were in fact breaking the rules by letting people know they were CCP employees i'm sure they'll find more. Baseless? Seems to me they found the evidence to suggest just the opposite.
I said "most of the allegations". That one thing isn't really something that worry me.
If you're ever in a big 0.0 war against BoB and all your pos's go offline or 6 billion isk worth of resources are taken from an operational pos you'll understand. People always used to say it was BoB infiltration but i know from experience that in a few cases that would have been impossible and thats when people started whispering that there had to be devs involved with BoB. Now we find that there were in fact devs in BoB. I don't think they'll have to look too hard. Actually i think if they just tell the devs to come clean or clean out their desk they'll find the answers pretty fast.
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