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The boot.ini's, we've found them

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CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#41 - 2012-12-06 21:03:38 UTC
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
lol, CCP sold malware, sweet.

they also sell lag! What else can ccp sell us with malicious intent.

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HVAC Repairman
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#42 - 2012-12-06 21:05:30 UTC
i just imagine now when a QA person misses something and someone brings it up, he/she can just say YEAH WELL AT LEAST I DIDN'T MISS BOOT.INI

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Mortimer Civeri
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2012-12-06 21:29:29 UTC
CCP Explorer wrote:
Mr Pragmatic wrote:
lol, CCP sold malware, sweet.

they also sell lag! What else can ccp sell us with malicious intent.

CCP your the best. <3
Team Gridlock and Time Dilation, the best thing since sliced bread.

You can slice bread!?!? This changes EVERYTHING.

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Dalmont Delantee
Gecko Corp
#44 - 2012-12-06 21:45:29 UTC
I have deleted my Boot.ini file in honour of this moment...and the GF's boot.ini file on her lap top and her main computer.

Tomorrow I shall delete the boot.ini file at work...ok I might not manage that one...
Karash Amerius
The Seven Shadows
Scotch And Tea.
#45 - 2012-12-06 21:48:05 UTC
I think 5 years is a good time to mark the occasion...as time goes on, it does become a fairly big troll by CCP.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#46 - 2012-12-06 21:53:02 UTC
Proletariat Tingtango wrote:
"Hey guys remember when we forced all those people to reformat their hard drives? Haha." isn't something I would want to assist in preserving in the collective memory of your subscriber base.


Do you realise we have war memorials to remember the people whose lives we frittered away pursuing whatever goals were important at the time? We don't have war memorials to celebrate the glory of blowing the crap out of whoever was our enemy at the time.

Remembering the boot.ini incident in this way is just CCP reminding themselves that QA is important, with a bunch of folks in the office thinking, "well, it's okay to take risks today and stretch to reach my goals because nothing I do will be as massive a mess-up as that was."

People who wish to bury their mistakes are more likely to participate in revisionist history. I don't trust them.

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MisterNick
The Sagan Clan
#47 - 2012-12-06 23:09:33 UTC
CCP Explorer wrote:
GallowsCalibrator wrote:
CCP Explorer wrote:
This is really the first part of a two part announcement, but we've found one of the missing boot.ini and it was delicious: https://twitter.com/erlendur/status/276699221065875456 More later.

Jokes aside, then 5 and 6 Dec 2012 mark the 5 year anniversary of the Trinity expansion and the boot.ini incident. It is in hindsight one of the more hilarious bugs in the gaming industry. I hope you have all recovered and forgive us. Smile
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A layered chocolate cake with buttercream covered with fondant.


If the boots.ini are wearable cake shoes.....i'll get some

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Sebiestor Tribe
#48 - 2012-12-06 23:20:06 UTC
CCP Explorer wrote:
This is really the first part of a two part announcement, but we've found one of the missing boot.ini files and it was delicious: https://twitter.com/erlendur/status/276699221065875456 More later.

Jokes aside, then 5 and 6 Dec 2012 mark the 5 year anniversary of the Trinity expansion and the boot.ini incident. It is in hindsight one of the more hilarious bugs in the gaming industry. I hope you have all recovered and forgive us. Smile


I saw this and about fell out of my chair laughing! Well played, guys, I salute you! Big smile

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#49 - 2012-12-06 23:37:18 UTC
i'm still waiting for the day a patch replaces ntoskrnl.exe

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#50 - 2012-12-06 23:40:07 UTC
also how much did Best Buy bill you guys for fixing players' systems?

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#51 - 2012-12-07 00:04:26 UTC
CCP Explorer wrote:
GallowsCalibrator wrote:
I'm assuming Part 2 will be a photo of various CCP employees with smashed cake crumbs and smears of fondant across their faces?
I think players who frequent the test servers have an idea of what we might be up to, but it will surface soon... Big smile

Its on TQ now too.

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#52 - 2012-12-07 00:13:47 UTC
Mirajane Cromwell wrote:
Sirinda wrote:
*sniff* They won't give us the boot. *sniffles*

I wouldn't be so sure about that... look in-game market Special Edition assets section and apparel under it.. there's Boots.ini shoes now for women and if you click the 3D view you'll see funny text. Blink

Oh, by the way, there's also item called "Key Pass to Open the Door blueprint". Anyone know yet where you can find one of those? Lol All the other materials seem to be available on market except for "Villard wheel"...

Ah, the Villard wheel. Years ago the industry tutorial had you make a perpetual motion machine, and that was one of the needed materials. I think you had to run an invention cycle on the agent provided bpc to get a new bpc that did not need it.

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Tarn Kugisa
Kugisa Dynamics
#53 - 2012-12-07 00:52:01 UTC
Grimpak wrote:
by the gods, 5 years already? I still remember the rage on the forums in that day. and the hilarious story of the guy who installed EVE on the main server of the company where he worked.Lol


I'm going to need that post

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JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#54 - 2012-12-07 01:02:09 UTC
Oh god, I thought I drank enough to forget about this and never be reminded again. :P
Anndy
The Evocati
#55 - 2012-12-07 01:16:35 UTC
feel bad for people that didnt know how to fix it but it sure was funny
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2012-12-07 01:22:40 UTC
Tarn Kugisa wrote:
Grimpak wrote:
by the gods, 5 years already? I still remember the rage on the forums in that day. and the hilarious story of the guy who installed EVE on the main server of the company where he worked.Lol


I'm going to need that post

I really can't remember if it was true or troll. it should be buried somewhere in yon olde forums.

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NeoShocker
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
#57 - 2012-12-07 02:49:29 UTC  |  Edited by: NeoShocker
Yeah, I still remember it clearly when I was looking at its installation process. I did see boot.ini and I immediately knew it wasn't good. :)

Even a few months before that, I saw the "boot.ini" in eve folder, and I was wondering why CCP put up a file name as the same as the windows one. I guess I shoulda voiced out to CCP back then. :s
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