wanna program your own MMO?

[Darren Dirt]

...now you can save all that exhausting development time!

Despite this snafu, the game's creators, CPP, have been doing some damage control by making a statement to Gameindustry.biz where they say things aren't all that bad:

"CCP is aware that an individual claims to have access to the source code of the EVE client. This access is not a security risk to CCP in any way," stated the developer.

"Access to the source code for the EVE client exposes no security vulnerabilities, has no privacy protection issues, and poses no threat to our customers' billing information.

"The server-side interface used by the client is carefully protected to ensure that no abusive or unwanted information is transmitted to, or from the internal EVE server systems. Nothing the EVE client can do can affect the game state, no advantage can be gained by manipulating the EVE client, no advantageous or disadvantageous information can be transmitted to other EVE users by altering the EVE client," added the company.

[Lazybones]

Assuming they did the server side code right, then ya, there should be no problem with the client code being leaked.

The question is however, will there be unofficial servers created by using the client code? The game state may be all on the servers, but the graphics and all the objects tend to reside in the client. Unless they ONLY got the code.