Hi all,

After a GREAT deal of discussion amongst a number of EE contributors, we have decided to release the posts which were made on the Collab clan forums between April and June of 2010.

We've been debating this for a few days, but our belief is that not releasing the post will do more harm to this situation than releasing them. There are currently a number of quotes floating around news organizations and the web, and we'd like to provide a complete set of posts & threads to the public. This will allow readers and the media to at least see a complete picture of the posts, rather than only having access to a handful of them which may be taken out of context.

Had some of these posts not been leaked to the media already, I don't believe we would be releasing them today.

We have cleansed ALL user information (poster name, email addresses, etc) and replaced them with anonymized information, such as Poster_1 or [User] in some cases. We felt that if this information is released to the media, we should ensure that it is presented in as complete of a package as possible, and that none of our other users' information is put at risk.

If any of our users have any questions, you know how to get a hold of me and the other staffers. There will be some stuff posted on our blog later this afternoon.

Thanks for your continued support and understanding during this difficult time.


The blog post regarding this is here: http://blog.earthempires.com/?p=61
EE Staff