Mithridates VI wrote:Jack McReady wrote:I only represent myself, also I specifically stated that this my point of view and if this is wrong then please answer those questions:
if they were testing something, please tell me why sammus420 was using it already last week, why have they used it in pub matches "for testing" when they could aswell make a corp match? and if it was for testing why was sammus420 teamkilling other players instead of his corpmates? as you can see in the thread I linked (which ironically is about II teamkilling others and you could provoke the bug via teamkilling), I already knew about this before so I am not making up things.
I'm not a Goon, nor can I speak for them, but I imagine any abuse of the exploit was the act of an individual.
I've seen Immobile Infantry leadership very clearly, after they immediately told CCP, pass on a "stop doing this". I've seen Cerebral Wolf dismiss the idea of sharing the exploit until it's fixed. I've seen internal discussion focused on fixing a gamebreaking bug and I've seen conversations between CCP and II focused on solving the problem.
EDIT: Also, +1 for the reasonable response to a fairly hostile post.
I am always reasonable, even when I am hostile
this is my theory what actually really happened
1. some guys on II were teamkilling for fun or to punish afk people (sammus admitted it in the thread I linked that he was teamkilling)
2. during this they discovered this bug and had some fun with multiple orbitals (see the thead I linked, where I accused sammus of doing it and they asked me GÇPif I have any proofGÇ£, note that this case was already reported by me back then via the ticket system)
3. the directors of II said to stop the teamkilling and discussed internally whats going on (again see the thread I linked were Cerebral Wolf said to stop it and discuss it internally)
4. the buguser shared the exploit with the directors
5. the directors decided to share it with CCP and claim the reward for something most likely several people already reported via the ticket system
6. CCP fixed the issue
7. II posts a thread about how it works and "confirms" my theory
I was randomly placed with sammus and his corp buddies into a pub match few times and saw him doing it, so that is why I guess it was actually him discovering it during a teamkilling spree and if you check the threads my theory makes a lot of sense from an outsiders point of view (I dont know what was going on in the background that is why I can only assume). Imho it does not matter if it was act of an individual, it is a difference if you have your own opinion or actually do something "bad" under the flag of someone else, II should take action and atleast apologize for ruining the matches of some poor players looking for fun but now the statement is "sorry bro, bad luck it was for testing, it is all fine". I do not begrudge that they got reward for it but anyone that was actually affected and received bad game experience by their actions during the so called "testing" should also receive a reward because they in fact were part of the testing.