gamesetwatch.com — The arguably most powerful alliance in the popular space-MMORPG, EVE-Online, was found to have harbored characters owned by the employees of CCP, the very company that created and manages EVE. Allegations of the employees steering valuable items toward the alliance have been raised. Are we, as paying MMORPG players, really playing on fair grounds?
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edziebaFeb 8, 2007
The amount stolen in the story is pocket change compared to the latest ISB pyramid scheme.
spacedreamerFeb 8, 2007
Why would Blizzard guys play WoW? They made the game repetitive, tedious and slow just so that customers keep paying for months...So surely if they wanted to play themselves, they would set up their own server with different settings, to make the game more fun, faster and less repetitive.
crossmenxFeb 8, 2007
CCP will eat their own. BoB will be hated further. Life continues. Dug cause it's EVE news. But until the full story comes out keep in mind there is a metric ton of speculation floating around. Crossmen X - Phantom Regiment
cosmosgoddessFeb 8, 2007
Every single mmorpg, there is always someone who is corrupted and/or cheating.
Closed AccountFeb 8, 2007
Eve, it could have been SUCH a nice game, if it allowd players to play 1:1 avatars (with cybernetics?) too. Imagine eve crossed with a game like descent, homeworld and starcraft, part first person, part strategy, part fleet game. However it is SOLELY a game where you pretend to be one single vessel. Only severe cases of asperger syndrome find any longterm amusement in that. After a brief two months fascination I totally lost interest. Game for a far-out fringe.
Closed AccountFeb 9, 2007
Are we really playing on fair grounds?Of course not. Just look at what happened to the MMORPGs now. Typically there is a huge black market of players selling items and gold on ebay. Usually the people selling these items are from china. There is no fun in that. 10 years ago it was never like this. I'll never play an MMORPG that has players selling item/gold on ebay, simply a waste of time.
popperianFeb 21, 2007
The Eve corruption thing is definitely real.I just witnessed a GM user insta-gagging/banning simply because the most powerful alliance in the game (packed full of Eve/CCP employees) had a player who asked for it.It's sad because it's a nice game, but the GMs definitely are players and they are corrupt. I think a lot of it might have something to do with the selling online of "ISK" the game currency on eBay/etc.Something is definitely going on at that company that isn't right.