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Posted - 2007.05.27 17:02:00 -
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Well, now my forum ban has lapsed...
Originally by: Deus Ex'Machina Arkanon, i think it's time for some heads to roll; gm, player and dev alike.
This list of heads includes but is not limited to: T20, admiral crajdasjfgsdkjfsd, orange species, sharkbait and the various other players/devs that have direct contact with the opposed parties to manipulate the way EVE's sandbox evolves.
In this case, I see no reason why OS has to go (much as I'd like to see one less POS-bowler in our space). If the 'MSN-gate' allegation is true, its hardly Orange Species' fault for using a means of communication made available to him; the fault lies with whoever was on the other end of that communication and acted on it. I can make all sorts of ridiculous and unreasonable requests of my friends (whether its asking a CCP employee to fire ISD members for spurious reasons, or asking a bank manager to slip me a few thousand pounds from the vault), the onus is on them to act responsibly and professionally and tell me to go through the proper channels or get lost.
Likewise Sharkbait, right now we have no evidence he's actually done anything malicious. If BoB were to drop a dreadfleet on one of DS1's POS sites next week then his actions will be seen in a different light and I'll be extremely suspicious, but currently the most you can say is that to not inform the members of DS1 of his actions in advance or even respond to their communications afterwards was the wrong way to go about things.
T20 of course should have been sacked on the spot when the first misconduct came to light.
Quote: I have no problem with EVE devs having various friends, or even gamer friends, i do have a problem however when the friends of devs are eve players that, due to their buddy buddy relationship, can get the devs to act in their interest, to boost the players e-peen or whatever.
Agreed, but in hindsight it was extremely niave of CCP to create a game with the ruthless and politicised atmosphere of EVE, and then to recruit their employees and GMs from the various partisan factions within the game and expect them to remain entirely impartial with what seems to be minimal accountability or monitoring. We've all seen how participants on all sides of this game tend to demonise their opponents (a natural phenomenon in all forms of warfare, after all), is it really so unexpected that employees recruited from this atmosphere would carry over their preconceptions as GMs and help out their friends and former corpmates against 'the bad guys'? |