Eve Online update FUBARs gamers' PCs

Just go to eve-online.com and look at the very first picture in their CCP, slideshow to get an understanding as to how a professional game developement company can manage to pull off an act of sheer stupidity like this.

Stop smoking drugs before work CCP!

I play Eve, and while this didn't happen to me, I know some folks it did happen to.

Eve just upgraded their graphics engine and released a couple different patches. There's the Classic version for people who can't run the new content ( 24MB patch that upgrades the old client to work with the current game), a Premium version (1.1GB full version to install from scratch, for people who can run the new content), and a patch that upgrades the Classic to Premium(584MB). Its that third patch that was the problem.

There's an Eve boot.ini file located in Program Files\CCP\ that the patch removes and then replaces during the install. Someone didn't make sure the installer was deleting the correct boot.ini file, so the boot.ini in the root directory got deleted or replaced in some cases. Why someone named part of the client boot.ini is anyone's guess.

They fixed the patch this morning.

Seems to be going fine for most people now. Not the end of teh world really but seems some muppets decided it was a good idea to install an expansion on release day on their work computers...AHAHAHAH

yep so while i type this, my computer is sitting at home with a fresh install of the premium client upgrade. never restarted last night... cant wait to go home... THANKS CCP!

Posted about this article in the forums, regarding that the 'story was out' since at that time they didn't have any official confirmation of their extreme idiotic move. 

Well, now they do, with an apology but my post was removed...

I played Eve for a few years and this sort of thing was bound to happen eventually. CCP (Eve’s developer) has consistently released patches that were of dubious technical quality. It’s a great game that manages to succeed in spite of CCP’s technical incompetence. Also, this is one more reason to QA without 100% virtualization.

I also heard a theory that this was a ploy on the part of one of the larger ingame guilds, or "corps" to render another corp that is largely composed of SomethingAwful goons inoperable for a few hours so the former could swoop in and snap up their territory.

with taking over your free time, destroying your social life, ending your marriage and estranging you from your children, MMORPG Eve has now moved on to even deeper delinquency in vandalising its customers PCs.

Isnt that the corporate equivalent of self harming? Given the attitudes evinced by the game's oh so arty avatars, already pierced and tattooed, that seems somehow appropriate, even if a little 90's.

Given how today's game makers consider the user's PC as their personal toolbox, it is something we gamers have basically gotten used to.
Battlefield 2 and 2142 ? Checks the hosts file to see if you aren't redirecting something they don't like. Eve deletes the boot.ini of the root directory. I'm sure other examples are legion.
Newsflash to game developers : guys, it's MY PC you're working on. Put your crap in the GAME directory and keep it there. That'll prevent a lot of this file nonsense.
And while you're at it, KEEP YOUR NOSE OUT OF THE REST OF MY PC ! You have the right to write and read in the directory of MY CHOICE, and NOWHERE ELSE.
The content of files that are not written by you for the game are none of your business to read.

NOT.

Patch is actually of a pretty good quality. Yes, boot.ini deletion was funny but hardly a disaster (5 min fix if it happened to you). Also if you were paying moderate attention on forums or you are a part of a reasonably large corp, this problem was promptly avoided, such as in my case.The game does look amazing though with the premium content.