Comments on: Eve Patch Spaz

By: Stick

Stick — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:43:51 +0000

Ah, it’ll be alright. EVE has the most tolerant, forgiving player base in the history of I really can’t keep this up. I can only imagine the horror of being a dev on patch day.

“You look at the forum?”
“… no. We’re sending in the intern.”

(Surprisingly, my WinXP machine didn’t seem to need its boot.ini. Huh.)

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:48:28 +0000

@lou5y: you are obviously forgetting Pool of Radiance.

By: lou5y

lou5y — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:42:06 +0000

The worst installer bug I’ve ever encountered was in the original Half-life. If installed to anything other than C:\sierra or something like that, uninstalling the game would delete everything in the chosen directory.

A bit of a surprise to find my entire C:\games dir empty.

By: Razor

Razor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:19:28 +0000

For those wondering, Vista users are safe from this for two reasons. UAC does help, but it’s because Vista does not use NTLDR and BOOT.INI for loading like previous versions of Windows. I can’t get how CCP could have made such a silly mistake. Here’s a quick idea… don’t name game files after system files.

By: wiper

wiper — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:33:22 +0000

This is even better than the old Myth 2 uninstaller bug – at least that seemed like some sort of punishment for daring to uninstall the game!

By: Radiant

Radiant — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:25:25 +0000

The only way this could have been worse is if it had a remove porn bug.

But then again if you play EVE you don’t really have time for porn.
Or food.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:28:33 +0000

Hope the linux client didnt get a rm -rvf

By: Alex Hopkinson

Alex Hopkinson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:40:25 +0000

It’s a pretty awful mistake to make but it highlights a ridiculously primitive bit of design in any versions of Windows not able to cope with a missing boot.ini.

By: drunkymonkey

drunkymonkey — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:27:27 +0000

“Its a great way to clear out the dumb ass idiots from your game I say! I mean its not hard to fix your boot.ini.. seesh”

Yes, because you’re an idiot if you don’t know the ins-and-outs of PC management…

Brilliant bug, by the way. While it’s probably not really that hilarious for the users affected, I can’t help but laugh at imagining what the faces of the developers would have been like.

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By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:45:12 +0000

You can download the patch safely now, it only applies if you downloaded before 4am GMT this morning.

I’ve patched just now, and it is beautiful.

By: Electric Dragon

Electric Dragon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:29:46 +0000

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