Developers caught mucking about with EVE

IT SEEMS LIKE every other minute there's some EVE Online drama. Now, a EVE thread that spun out of control has caused controversy over developers abusing their game-world power.

EVE Online, for those of you not in the know, is a space-based MMORPG that allows players to spend all day mining for minerals on asteroids, selling the minerals, then mining asteroids again.

Community manager Kieron stated in the thread that the naughtyness initially discussed has been looked into, with EVE-peddlers CCP taking action against, and deleting characters of developers whose out-of-space-actually-quite-real-and-on-planet-Earth identification was leaked to other players within the in-game corporations, says Shacknews.

Despite community bloke Kieron explaining the situation, there's still plenty of malarkey and drama on the forums, mainly about the EVE developers using their magical developer power to give themselves certain advantages, thereby upsetting the balance of the universe. The EVE universe, I mean. The whole issue was completely sidestepped by Kieron, however, which has got a fair few players generally miffed.

The thread has now been locked after a Kieron follow-up, where he says CCP will provide further explanations on the matter come the week's end. µ