{"id":287,"date":"2009-03-24T18:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/24\/bob-kenzoku-gets-name-changed\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:06:35","slug":"bob-kenzoku-gets-name-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/24\/bob-kenzoku-gets-name-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"BoB \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kenzoku gets name changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Corporation discussion forum over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/ingameboard.asp?a=channel&amp;channelID=3521\">at eve-o<\/a> is overrun by threads on this new bob related issue. A GM has changed the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenzoku-restaurant.com\/\">Kenzoku<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/alliance\/Band_of_Brothers_Reloaded\/corporations\">Bob Reloaded<\/a> as you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eve-search.com\/thread\/1032494\/page\/1\">read here<\/a>. Normally you have to disband your alliance and form a new one under a new name to get this done, apparently having ties with CCP gets things done easier.<\/p>\n<p>People are whining all over now (and deservedly so) that when they tried to changed their name (even a simple c to a Capitcal C) their petition gets denied, but this one went through. This is now of course leaking towards other forums, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmorpg.com\/gamelist.cfm?view=forums&amp;game=14&amp;post=2737311&amp;bhcp=1\">MMORPG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even when there are no ties, and this petition went through all the proper channels and it got approved, I still think CCP did a really bad job here. After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/cgi-bin\/board.pl?action=viewthread&amp;threadid=75215\">the scandal<\/a>, now almost two years ago, they should realize that as soon as they soon even the smallest favoritism towards Bob (reloaded) it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to look bad.<\/p>\n<p>So all in all a bad decision by CCP and one that will cause some bad PR yet again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&amp;threadID=1033628\">has been reversed<\/a>, good call by CCP !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corporation discussion forum over at eve-o is overrun by threads on this new bob related issue. A GM has changed the name of Kenzoku to Bob Reloaded as you can read here. Normally you have to disband your alliance and form a new one under a new name to get this done, apparently having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/24\/bob-kenzoku-gets-name-changed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BoB \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kenzoku gets name changed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bob"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXll4-4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}