Comments on: On Mac OSX, It Installs Internet Explorer, And On Linux, It Forces You To Vote Republican

By: Comstar

Comstar — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:26:22 +0000

28 hours AFTER patch deployment and dozens if not 100’s of POS’s were destroyed and looted by people exploiting bugs, which have had no punishment done to them.

By: Simond

Simond — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:12:45 +0000

Boot.ini trainwreck? Cake.
Icing? CCP says “Yeah, you know our PvP endgame stuff – the whole conquering regions/sovereignty/POS warfare thing? Don’t do it until we say you can, because Trinity broke it in all sort of interesting ways. Anyone who ignores this will be banned for exploiting”

By: Dartwick

Dartwick — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:31:04 +0000

I think this is biggest fuck up ever by a legit MMO. Years from now it will be a gamer tivia point that locks EVE into a spot in history(among nerds like us.)

I suspect that some people will have to take there PCs into a shop to get this fixed – I bet CCP will end up paying for it. 10 free days of play or something like that isnt going to cut it.

By: kalain

kalain — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:12:41 +0000

Technically, this only broke pre XP SP2 machines, the rest can boot without boot.ini (they flash a warning about it missing), but it’s a pretty major Oops

By: Gophur

Gophur — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:56:36 +0000

@troop

In all fairness we (WWIIOL) only deleted the nt.dll and then only in open beta. Even we wouldn’t let that go LIVE. Hehe. I feel for those guys. It’s pretty humbling to have to tell your players not to turn off their computers until you can get a fix out and even more humbling to realize that if you miss one, then there’s no way to contact that player again. Ah those were the days.

By: Marlowe

Marlowe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:37:43 +0000

Let’s not forget a hat-tip to Window’s pathetic security model for making this all possible.

Oh, sorry [CLICK] Vista [CLICK] fi–[CLICK]–xed [CLICK] that….

By: kalain

kalain — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:51:44 +0000

./boot.ini, /boot.ini

Not seeing a difference here.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:14:03 +0000

This is the sort of thing that just makes me want to go back to the floppy demo load of DOOM. Better yet, checkers. Checkers can’t brick my computer.

By: ubvman

ubvman — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:36:18 +0000

I predict ZERO repercussions for CCP apart from a few lost accounts. Its a small hinky and rather corrupt company – losing one dev for this fiasco is gonna be like losing half their live team . If the previous corruption scandal had no effect on CCP – neither will this debacle.

This is MMOG gaming people! Crack dealers get away with occasionally spiking the dope and killing some of their customers – but eventually they all come back to the dealer.

Its the nature of the MMO beast. Even with a mediocre product, you get to treat your customers like twats. Good deal what!…

By: VPellen

VPellen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:57:47 +0000

Note to self: when designing software, always, ALWAYS give data files a unique prefix.