SOE hires IGE boss LOL .. gooooo farmers!!

[YummiOger]

<p><a href="http://www.soepress.com/release.asp?i=100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.soepress.com/release.asp?i=100</a> </p><p> snip- -Prior to joining SOE, Christensen served as Vice President of Business Development for IGE where he drove the company's relationships with the massively multiplayer publishing community.- - snip</p><p> Why ban the BOTs when i can hire their boss? LOL .. classic</p>

[Savanja]

I saw that, and it gave me a good chuckle.  I'm not sure it matters all that much where the guy came from, but it doesn't look the greatest for SOE that they are completely okay with hiring from a company that violates their policies on a regular basis. I don't think this is a sanction for plat sales, and atm I'm trying to think of it as similar to when banks and other companies hire former bank robbers and hackers to help out with beefing security.  Maybe having a guy from the other side will help?  Or maybe the guy will just be there to do his job.  Who knows.

[Bozidar]

<p>what's IGE?</p>

[Wilko1981]

<cite>Bozidar wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>what's IGE?</p></blockquote> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva">The devil</span>

[interstellarmatter]

<p>Come join us in the current thread of discussion on the issue</p><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=357213" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=357213</a></p>

[Kaleyen]

That's awesome in a completely funny laughing off my [Removed for Content] sorta way. BOTS rejoicing anywhere?  Maybe? HAHAHAHA!

[Mabes]

Perhaps on the flipside, he can give insider information about how the farming companies operate, and can help soe fight the botters.  On the other side, this hiring is pretty suspecious, I know of a few friends that already believed that soe allowed botting as long as they got a share of the money, and this will probably further cement their thoughts.

[-AtPlay-]

<cite>YummiOger wrote:</cite><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.soepress.com/release.asp?i=100" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.soepress.com/release.asp?i=100</a> </p><p> snip- -Prior to joining SOE, Christensen served as Vice President of Business Development for IGE where he drove the company's relationships with the massively multiplayer publishing community.- - snip</p><p> Why ban the BOTs when i can hire their boss? LOL .. classic</p></blockquote>This happens all the time.  As mentioned previously, security companies hire bank robbers, hackers, forgers, etc. to shore up their knowledge in these areas.  SOE has even done this before by hiring the guy who wrote ShowEQ (a pretty hefty packet sniffing program for EQ1.)   Im sure one of his first duties was to make sure his program wouldnt work anymore.

[Nastharl]

Hes doing marketing for asian sector.

[Krontak]

Never cross peoples minds that SOE might be getting a cut of the bot farms profits in return for not being all out exterminated?  It is a huge business I think.

[Sapphira]

Locking this as it has little to do with actual gameplay and there is already an ongoing discussion<a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=357213" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> here</a> about it.