Blizzard would break your PC and then say nothing about why it happend, when it happened or how they fixed it. I don't think this is a desperation move. I think this is more of a hands-up move. CCP are saying, "we screwed up and broke your OS," and they are trying to/have restored some confidence by telling everyone how they have fixed it and how they are ensuring it won't happen again. I personally find this blog interesting and reassuring because now I know for sure that it isn't going to happen again anytime soon so I can install Eve and patch it without biting my fingernails off :-)

That's not actually the case. There are multiple instances of errors on Blizzard part where they have not released all the information relevant to the problem. Most of these cases revolve around the banning of accounts or issues with connectivity but they are indicative of Blizzards approach. I've experienced this behaviour in both Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft.

I've played Eve and know people who have been playing it for many a year and I agree that CCP have, in the past, made some near-fatal errors as they have with the boot.ini issue but CCP have always retified the issues and have always provided clear and concise information relevant to the problem at hand. Blizzard have not. Blizzard have sometimes provided fractional amounts of information or, more often than not, just said, "I can't say anything...".

The activity you mention about in game cheating is prevalent in World of Warcraft as well. There have been situations where GMs have abused their powers to give players an unfair advantage over others. Entire guilds have been transferred PvE to PvP simply because high-ups at Blizzard are in the guild. In almost all of the situations involving Blizzard employees breaking rules, they have just gone, "it is our game." It is also popular to beleive that class balance is dictate by the Leads and more often than not, these Leads play the very same classes that are being OP-buffed (speculation ofc).

I myself have never been banned, suspeneded or otherwise but I know people who have and I know that the reasons that are given are not personal by any stretch of the imagination. They do not document the offenses on a case by case basis. They do not list the reports and the observations that led to the ban. They do not tell you exactly what was detected or reported. It is possible to tell people what happened without revealing who reported them you know :-) More often than not, the Warden has its way with you and that is hardly personal now is it?

The phrasing of my sentence seems to have been twisted. I was not implying that Blizzard would intentionally break your PC. I'd also like to highlight that CCP did not intentionally break anyones PC. They just did via something they had overlooked. What I was implying was that if Blizzard messed up on such a level where they did compromise an OS to that point, they would not give precise information about the problem on such a technical level. They never have. An incident that comes to mind was the mass banning of Linux users and, despite the fact that they don't support linux, the following unbanning of almost all the accounts. They never fully revealed why so many users were banned. There have been multiple ban waves where this has occured. You are right, there are no events of Blizzard breaking OSs and as such the only way of saying what is most likely of them is to look at previous actions on Blizzards part.

I'm going to take it that you are or were an employee of Blizzard at one point from your wording. I don't know how things work at Blizzard but you know those entire guilds that got transferred from server to server counter to Blizzards policies? Yeah... to my knowledge they never got banned :-) It's happen several times and has been noticed several times and I can't think of a time where they have been moved back to the PvE server they came from, banned, suspended etc etc etc. I'm pretty sure that a couple of the Leads were in a guild that this happened with... and they are still Leads... and not banned :-D CCP have fired employees (contrary to popular belief) for breaking the rules as have Blizzard but much like Blizzard, they are hardly going to fire the high-ups now are they? :-)

Eve has over 200000 active subscribers and is quickly approaching the 300000 mark. That isn't low when compared to almost all other P2Ps... it is above average.

Befor eI continue, I'd like to know what the point in this comment was? As far as I can see, there is no point in this comment.

I'd just like to make a couple of points.

Whilst my arguement is not based upon solid evidence, I base it on observations I have made of other Blizzard policies. From what I have observed, Blizzard have always released limited information whether it be about new games, patches, bans, hardware issues, software issues and so on and so forth and whilst they are not positively indicative of what Blizzard would do if they were to find themselves in a situation similar to CCP, they are the only examples I have to make observations.

People have been stating that Blizzard would reveal all the information if this were to occur in one of their titles and have also highlighted my above point. I would just like to state that those people are guilty of the same, "offence," as you also have no evidence to back up your assertions in this situation. You are also speculating.

In this situation, I beleive that Blizzard would not reveal all of the information. In my opinion, I think, based on observations I and others have made, that Blizzard would fix the issue, possibly release a small amount of information about the issue and then make no reference to it for a long, long time.

The great thing about this debate is that it can go round and round and round for days and days and days without any definate, "victor," as it is all based on opinion which can't be disproved :-P

So instead of playing tennis with this for the next few days, I'd be more interested in knowing what people here would do in this situation.

If you were in CCPs shoes, what would you do to retify the mishap?

215 users = roughly 10% of the player base.

That's hardly, "viral," is it?