Robus Muvila
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.06.23 14:55:00 -
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This has been an absolutely fascinating arc of events and has made for wonderful reading. The first thing that comes to mind has been the knee jerk "Burned Earth" approach, as they started in regards to the Constantine Conspiracy, CCP is a big company, it takes time and planning to make anything happen, that's just how big companies work.
Hotfixes are drastic measures usually reserved for situations where there is something that is truely game breaking on a engine mechanics level, or it is a liability issue (Like deleting boot.ini ). What is essentially a balance issue (A huge one, but a balance issue none the less).
The sheer whammy and speed of this reaction combined with sicking CCP Sreegs on the forums in addition to the recent new rules about being mean to CCP staff on the forums to me looks less like a company dealing with a game exploit, and more like a company trying to save face on a PR level. They liked Burn Jita because although it involved upsetting a large section of the player base, they still had control of the situation, it was going to get out into the blogosphere and they could shape it and mould it to reflect positively on their product like pro's.
This wasn't a hack where players manipulated code or broke the game mechanics, this is a cut and dry case of the games playerbase being CONSIDERABLY smarter than the development team and a CCP that is clearly getting sick of disrespect from the playerbase.
I feel sorry for CCP in a way because they are in a clear Catch 22 situation here. If they rolled everything back, they're disturbing the sandbox, if they DIDN'T roll everything back Jade Constantine and Jester would have a god damn party about favouritism and goons being in CCP's pocket. They were damned if they did and they were damned if they didn't.
In the end regardless of what happens to the money the history of it all cannot be rolled back and cannot be hotfixed.
Goonswarm executed the scam of the century right under CCP's noses. And that is awesome, no matter what happens to the money.
And money is everything. |