I understood that clearly. Maybe it went a bit off hand, yes. And then the CSM guys intervened in the same way that becomes usually destructive of the post’s purpose: failing to see the underlying content of the post and cherrypick on what’s literal.
Look, I don’t think it’s the best idea to give more information that’s exclusively related to the game itself.
In some way, being part to CSM comes with some exposure and it’s consequences. So, if someone is not ready to deal with such, my advise is to get out quickly.
Still, somehow everyone feels that whatever they do has no accountability and that the “rules” don’t require it.
That is a huge disadvantage after all these years. That no matter how much you get involved with the regular lines of communication, no one is accountable, no one has an obligation to give or disclose and no one really goes rogue until it’s too late.
In this direction, the CSM is nothing, means nothing and has no leverage. They can only talk or discuss on topic, ask about what’s available and get back on the forums to discuss if names should be public, instead of recognizing that some of us are asking for information that has been available sometimes but not now in particular. They can’t do better.
So, any info is there because it’s either “beneficial” or “uncompromising”… in other words, not fully scripted but under control.
So, if we forget about CSM for it’s impossible for them to respond, one could argue… “well, what is it for?”
As I said, it’s primary job between the lines should be to proclaim the positive side of whatever is next. And by trying on the minutes, there is very little out here that cannot (and should have) be presented in three lines of release notes in the mid of a fall week. Useless.
No one is accountable and there will ever be contrition acts when EVE is over and done, given that nothing survives to enforce NDAs. So, we might never know.
There are thin lines and thinner ones. For example, one could argue that what happened during the black summer was an attempt against illegality (botting) forced in general population as desperate act of… whatever… disguised as “chaos”…
Now, if someone wanted to know it might be that a legal action would be the only way, with a then not so shallow argument: Why was I forced to dispense with a service I’m paying for, when the service itself was altered as counter something I have not done? It’s just an example, not a discussion point.
I can’t blame CSM guys, really. Their hands could be tied.
I blame us for being so lame, so naive and blindly trust a service we pay for. And never created a true line of communication with the subsequent accountability. CSM is far from that line.
But there will be laws in the future because money is involved and where there’s money, accountability follows. Just look at Belgium and the loot boxes. Just as example.
