MMORPG player cheats on his friends after 10 years, shamelessly robs them: Even developers ask why?

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Last week, the biggest raid in the 20-year history of the online role-playing game took place in the MMORPG EVE Online. A player shamelessly robbed his alliance of 10 years. He stole a fortune and destroyed valuable clones. Even the developers of EVE right now just want to know, “Why?”

That’s the EVE Online heist in a nutshell: We have on MeinMMO on November 16th. reported about the raid:

  • The player Jay Amazingness returned to his alliance Goonswarm after a break and because he was friends with the leader and had contact with him privately, the leader gave him back his position of power. The leader said he trusts Jay Amazingness more than anyone else in EVE Online
  • But the player took advantage of the trust placed in him and betrayed his alliance: he emptied their coffers and stole everything that wasn’t nailed down. He also sabotaged the station and condemned more than 52,000 strategically important Jump Clones to death.
  • Only a server downtime could prevent the worst and save 70% of the clones marked for destruction, but the player had amassed a huge fortune and joined the enemies of his alliance, the Pandemic Legion. The head of Goonswarm, his friend, was stunned and didn’t understand why he was being so betrayed. There were no signs that the player was dissatisfied and was planning such a betrayal

    • The raid took place directly in connection with the new expansion “Havoc”:

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    Traitor celebrates his raid

    This is what we know now: Meanwhile, Jay Amazingness, the robber, has published a video on YouTube of his raid and it is clear that he made loot worth billions in ISK, including actually stealing valuable blueprints.

    The exact loot remained unknown after the robbery. Because Goonswarm had an interest in downplaying the robbery so as not to appear weak and vulnerable. But the video now shows that the Alliance has suffered a significant setback and lost many resources in one fell swoop.

    It is now also clear that the theft was not a “lone perpetrator”, but that the coup was actually orchestrated with the knowledge of Pandemic Legion, the enemies of Goonswarm.

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    Traitor had long had friends in the enemy alliance and wanted to join

    That’s what the other side says: The Panemic Legion says that Jay has had friends in the Alliance for a long time and that the coup against the enemies of Goonswarm has been prepared for months. When it turned out that Jay wanted to join the Pandemic Legion, they thought about how they could do that. However, they did not want to reveal how involved the Pandemic Legion was in the raid.

    There is also a bit of a smile at Pandemic Legion: one of their leaders says that they have sold a valuable ship, a Titan, back to Goonswarm, as mmorpg.com reports.

    Pandemic Legion even had the nerve to write a support ticket to the developers CCP, asking them to retroactively destroy all 52,000 clones. Because their destruction was only stopped by the server downtime. But CCP refused.

    Server downtime is a fact of life in EVE Online that you have to deal with. It has always been that way, the developers said.

    This is how the developers react: Even the developers themselves, CCP, were amazed at what was about to happen in their MMORPG. One of the developers, Peter “CCP Siwft” Ferrell, says in an interview with mmorpg.com:

    “It was totally crazy. So we’re going into downtime and it’s just before lunch. We do our stand-up at that time. And then I see screenshots popping up everywhere and I think to myself: This can’t be real.”

    The team then tried to find out what was going on and used their own tools to figure out what was happening: They quickly saw that there was even more at stake than the 52,000 clones.

    CCP Swift then wrote to the players, the head of the Goonswarm alliance and also Jay Amazingness to find out what happened. But even he didn’t want to explain what the exact motivation behind the betrayal was.

    So far, the motivation behind the fraud still remains the thief’s secret.

    Even the head of Pandemic Legion says Jay has to tell this story himself. But it looks like he was playing a double game. And his switch to the enemy alliance was so dramatic that everyone in the game noticed it.

    This whole thing also has such weight because Goonswarm is usually the alliance that cheats. But here we were on the other side of a “This is EVE” story.

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