EVE Online Rocked by Mining Bug Scandal

Posted by Nelson Williams | December 13, 2008

Not that scandals are anything new to EVE Online, but this one is a big sucker that is sure to impact every major player in the game. Short version; about four years ago, some folks figured out a bug that would cough up mining materials from thin air. They reported it, the company that runs EVE, CCP, ignored the report. So these fine folks continued their activities. And expanded them. Since everything built in the EVE Online universe is made from material mined by other players, pretty much anything that flies has some of these magical exploit materials in it.

There is some evidence CCP knew about the bug, but kept quiet for reasons of their own. The only reason we’re hearing about it is because someone CCP can’t banhammer …

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