When did CCP sell Eve Online?

"There's a new patch available. Would you like to download it now?"

That message has been popping up at login with distressing regularity lately. Sometimes it seems like there's a new patch/fix every couple days.

The last expansion was really buggy when it was first released and it's been patched repeatedly since. That reminds me of another MMO publisher for another game I used to play.

So the question is did Blizzard buy Eve?

Or maybe CCP has adopted Blizzard's policy of hiring unqualified idiots based on in-game celebrity/noteriety and sycophantic relationships with senior developers rather than actual coding ability or game design experience. There certainly have been an awful lot of well known Eve players hired by CCP, but how many of them are actually any good at writing code or capable of unbiased objective design?

Whatever the real reasons may be buggy releases and constant patches are some of the first signs of serious development problems. I hope they get it straightened out soon.