Eve Patch Cripples XP

Limited — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:10 GMT

"oops"

Eve Patch Cripples XP

Triz0101 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:09 GMT

.... ROLF thats so funny, dont they have a test sever?

Eve Patch Cripples XP

Flisher — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:08 GMT

Hum... was that an easter egg from an angry staff member?
Why the hell a game would touch this file? Why would a game even look a it?

Eve Patch Cripples XP

Snuffsis — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:07 GMT

This happened because when you are updating the installer is trying to remove /boot.ini, while its not intended for the deletion of the windows boot.ini, it happens, its actually meant for eve's boot file. just a simple mistake,a big mistake, but nonetheless a mistake xD

Eve Patch Cripples XP

Electrofreak — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:06 GMT

Of course there is a test server. However it seems that rebooting wasn't a part of the QA process.

The test server build of EVE (at least for players) is run from a separate folder generally in the root directory of the computer and thus probably did not produce this result.

A big mistake certainly. I'd like to note that the code was fixed fairly soon after the patch was released and I didn't see a whole lot of people effected.

Eve Patch Cripples XP

asp — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:05 GMT

Wow... This is probably when you're happy not to be in the US as a company. Really shouldn't name files the same as critical system components in the root directory. This kind of stuff happens but talk about bad press.

Eve Patch Cripples XP

Zinor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:04 GMT

Ouch, glad I don't reboot my computers :)