When I tried to get Privateer 2: the darkening to work on my PC but I had to keep going back to editing config.sys and autoexec.bat files on my boot disk to get it working.
@ahoodedfigure: For alot of people, it didn't really effect them but for those in 0.0 space and in the war against some coprorations it was a massive blow. I believe that after this event the CSM was created where players were supposed to have much more input into the game.
It's changed quite a bit now as CCP has learnt much from it's mistakes, or at least I hope they have.
I suppose in the end if an artist is a dickhead doesn't mean that she/he haven't created great art.
I can understand it. It's disapointing to see what was once a great indeapth genre seen to be simplified to allow users to play games with controllers.
A keyboard/mouse has so much more options and it's just a pitty that more gaming developers being forced to dump down their controls for the mass market.
@ahoodedfigure: The hacking incident is commonly known as 'The T20 incident' named after the dev which caused all of the issues. This happened way back in 2007.
A summary of events I have found: CCP has/had a program where developers run unaffiliated alts playing through the game like a normal person would, ostensibly to get a "man on the street" viewpoint. t20's man on the street worked his way up, eventually becoming a director and head of the capital fleet in the Band of Brothers alliance. Breaking the neutrality clause the program runs upon, he revealed his identity as a CCP employee to BoB high command. Of course, this lead to nothing but trouble - he spawned T2 BPOs, at that time massively rare and expensive, and fed them information on upcoming gameplay changes, known exploits, events and so on. Everyone who wasn't in the very upper echelons of BoB directorship was unaware of this.
Enter Anthonyz, commonly known as Kugutsumen, an EVE player who happened to be an experienced hacker. Lotka Volterra director Lallente took advantage of this, hiring him to crack into our directors-only forum for a Wyvern mothership. When Lallente stiffed him on the deal he promptly went fuck LV and decided to work for their enemies (us, although we never actually hired him to do work). He stumbled on the goldmine - the smoking gun of t20's involvement in aiding the Band of Brothers alliance, posting it on the official forums. His five accounts were banned, all threads distributing this information was deleted and CCP refused to acknowledge this entire event occurred. One threadnought, a Washington Post article and a wave of cancellations later: http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=424
As it stands today: t20 was ostracized and CCP forced him to leave BoB, but CCP refused to fire him from the company. BoB is still called Band of Developers, Dianabolic is still bragging about having CCP on MSN and we still fucking hate BoB for this. T20 eventually left CCP to pursue other opportunities and BoB have now disbanded.
Also a link to Kugutsumen's take on what happened and why he was bannd is on his forum HERE
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