The lights at CCP Games in Reykjavik, Iceland were knocked out for hours after their power was disrupted by a masked man using what local authorities are calling a “sonic screwdriver-type device”. This incident comes just weeks after the Council of Stellar Management VII (CSM) member Aryth of Goonswarm Federation within the Imperium Alliance inside EVE Online introduced several CCP employees to the “metagame” of EVE Online over dinner while attending the CSM Summit. The very dinner that Aryth is self credited with flipping-off CSM member The Judge, a diplomat of Circle of Two alliance. The physical evidence is slim, but many believe that Aryth himself or an agent of the Imperium carried out the power outage to properly introduce the entire CCP organization to a demonstration of the high level meta game play that happens within and outside their own game.
CCP Games’ PR and social media lead, CCP Manifest who works in the Atlanta, GA offices released a statement shortly after all staff members were confirmed safe: “Thankfully, no employees were physically injured during the orderly and prompt evacuation of CCP headquarters following the then unknown cause of the power outage”. Manifest did go on to say, “There were some minor data loses which involved new structure code, but that it will not affect the winter update as we will use some legacy code to patch the holes“, and that “we are working with local law enforcement outside the game, and in-game our very own security analyst CCP Peligro will be conducting an in-game investigation to locate the perpetrators”.
An insider for EVE Onion did report that CCP Plant, CCP Chair, and CCP Pen were trapped inside a locked room. Thankfully, the quick thinking of CCP Guard and with use of an object called “The Ban Hammer”, Guard quickly made an exit hole for the honorary CCP staffers to continue on to safety.
Too many questions, but too few answers is the phrase everyone is reiterating to sum up this incident.
We here at EVE Onion can say with some certainty that CCP Games has just become part of their very own creation, and wish to welcome CCP Games to the very real and ever increasing immersive reality of EVE Online’s high level geopolitical gameplay we call the Meta Game.
