This is all coming fast and furious, as it appears three different stories are being exposed at once. To preface: CCP are the developers of the MMORPG called Eve-Online. A year or so ago, some of CCP were caught by players to be cheating by handing out items to an in-game alliance called Band of Brothers (BoB). In an odd display, CCP did not fire the developers involved in the cheating, nor did the in-game corporation receive any reprimand beyond the offending items being deleted (or at least they said they did). They did set up an Internal Affairs group within the company after this event, with a statement that they would oversee and have authority to investigate all matters.
Now there comes to light evidence of more cheating: on-call requests from the BoB corporation straight to the developers to which they have on MSN chat at the ready. There is clear evidence of devs joining BoB rival corporations and making themselves directors. There is evidence of rigging in-game events. And there is evidence of CCP employees being silenced and forced out when they question these happenings.
I’m having a hard time myself trying to glean exactly what is happening, but there are many specifics in this document:
The Eve-Online forums have been taken down, possibly because of the sheer volume of outcry and attention, or possibly to prevent more things being posted. I do know that the first few posts about these happenings were almost immediately shut down and deleted.
This doesn’t bode well, more updates as I find them
update: After the Eve-Online forums came back up, there were many threads and posts on this topic that were deleted. The forum mods made one post for responses and it appears to be staying open, albeit with heavy-handed moderation.
