We'll take that Alliance

A lot of bloggers are posting about the recent DBoB situation, some are refusing to post about it saying that it will be over exposed in the blogosphere. Personally getting various viewpoints about a particular event is what a community is for so I'll share mine.

BoB I knew thee well...actually not at all.

BoB has been a huge influence in the game ever since I started they killed ASCN as I began EVE. They killed the first Titan as I began EVE. They certainly have built up a momentous legacy. To see it them shattered in a day seems only fitting. Slow decline and eventual crushing would have ruined their place in EVE history in my opinion. Being beaten (assuming that will be the end result of all this) by spy and infiltration means aside from security your military strategy and tactics were sound enough to carry you for years through this game and let's be honest on the internet that's a pretty damn long time.

People that worship the Almighty Goon.
For being masters of misinformation campaigns and dirty tactics this is befitting of them. A lot of people don't believe the DBoB event has been cause by the Hand of Goon, but for all the misinformation that the Goons are known for I think they actually pulled this off. For all you GBC loving nay sayers out there listen to reason and look at the facts. I don't like BoB or Goons at all, BoB are arrogant pricks and Goons are arrogant pricks that fight dirty and do recruitment scams. But you gotta give props where and when they are due. The reason the Goons have likely pulled this off are simple. There has been an immediate flood of specific information about the DBoB that isn't reminiscent of any other Goon misinformation campaign. We have names, chat logs, and MP3s of this. The details are specific enough and have been released quick enough to suggest it is at least likely that this was a legitimate Goon power move. Now its also likely that hacks were involved, which wouldn't be surprising in the least and which would be petitionable by BoB. Now it's still possible that all of this was some huge elaborate quickly devised Goon misinformation scheme, but they've claimed that they have archived all of BoB's forums, which if release would be proof this was truly all a well executed death blow to BoB.

If we see those forum archives I'll be inclined to believe this was a Goon master plan.

Til then POWHA UP THY TINFOIL HATS!