EVE General Discussion

.....And people not recognizing the difference between a serious and legitimate issue and the normal forum chatter.

I have played a number of MMO's and they all state that you can not post communications from GM's

Its nothing new.

AS far as I know, that archos came out and started triage repping miners to try to prevent ganks. That would be against the rules, since carriers still in high sec are not allowed to interact as far as I know. I think flying it and shooting off fireworks is about the limit.

Anyway, a lot of companies has a non-disclosure of comms rule, because it's so much hassle to deal with the millions of "waah, i hate your decision" mails they get off the back of it.
Steam are funny though. They don't have a rule against disclosure, but the instantly delete any communications about bans and such so you simply can't annoy them with it.

A 'good reason' may serve one persons interest at the expense of another, for whom it will be a 'bad reason'. The rules are there to make life easier for the powers that be by making it harder to flag up their errors. That's a good reason for the 'authoritarian state' and a bad reason for the players/peasants.

Not to mention the fact that I don't think anyone wants the forum to degrade even further with every... single... ticket being discussed and cross examined by our resident internet lawyers... clogging the forums with absolute drivel and bold faced lies designed to get a ship reimbursed and other nonsense.

We have more than enough of that going on already.

The part in bold is not actually true all the time. If you look at the actual issue that started this current mash up surrounded CCP playing favorites like they have in the past with BOB etc....That is the kind of thing that effects EVERYONE no special super secret status needed here, ALL of the EVE players were effected.

In reference to the policy I have no lack of understanding about why companies have it. The part about accountability was in reference to the overall incident not the email in particular and I am sorry if I miscommunicated regarding that apsect of my post.

Ah yes, down with authority!

Why should the people who created the game be able to create the rules too.

Completely unfair.

Way to talk past the issue rather than engage with it. I don't think I have said anywhere that authority, or even authoritarianism, is always bad. What it is, very often, is stupid and self-destructive. CCP have nearly destroyed themselves in the past by failing to properly connect with their community. You might laugh at the notion of unfairness because you are big stronk eve player. But an ongoing failure to take this notion into account is likely to destroy, not protect, the very thing they have built. Eve is not just a set of game mechanics and code created by CCP. It is also a social group created in significant part by its members. The idea that CCP's decisions should never be question just because they are in a position of authority is completely unsustainable. Unfortunately, you don't seem to be really interested in actually discussing the issue. Cheap rhetorical point-scoring and sophistry seem more your thing.

tl;dr - The people who created the game can of course dictate the rules. That doesn't necessarily mean it is in either their interests or the interests of the players always to do so.

You don't like it, leave.

[laughing at people whining about the "unfairness" of it all]

Giving acknowledgement (in a variety of ways), encouragement, and help to those 3rd party groups that provide service to the player base is to be commended.

Suggestions otherwise are simply cutting off ones nose to spite your face.

Nothing that was done affects the player base in any tangible way... no ones game play was negatively affected. Not yours, not mine.