EVE General Discussion

And after you realize this, you need to ask yourself: "Why did Ripard Teg specifically go to all these lengths to start this up, long after the actual event had occurred?"

Because you can't handle Eve Online and need CCP to hold your hand??

You fail so miserably to see that all participants chose to stay and in no way were forced against their will to continue.

The contestants are informed and consent to their actions being recorded and then distributed into the media/public domain. They even have to sign a release form for all data/information recorded.


As far as im aware bonus room makes no attempt to let the victim know they are being recorded at the start. Which infact breaks laws in many country's.

This man speaks the truth! I don't know whether cyber bullying is illegal, but it is certainly morally reprehensible. CCP needs to take decisive, aggressive and swift action to avoid creating the perception of supporting the scammer's actions through inaction. Time to stop hiding behind the "it's just like real life" banner and protect the community from itself, and boost the game's reputation. Sure, it won't please everyone, BUT it will please many. Moreover, it's the right thing to do - and CCP and every individual on the face of the earth with a decent moral compass knows it.

Let's put it this way: imagine, for a second, if this was brought up on mainstream media and discussed on the BBC, NBC etc. What do you think would happen? CCP would RUSH to take action to save the game's reputation, as the negative PR effect would otherwise be traumatic for the game - and new subscriptions. The right course of action is so incredibly obvious - from both a reputational and economic perspective - that I'm agitated at having to write this comment.

C'mon CCP. Do the right thing, and stop hiding behind inaction.

You said something along the lines of "The entire scam is just there to select victims".

And my response is to tell you that the isk doubling service is not a scam. I know full well it's not, because I have had my isk doubled successfully, because I can actually read.

In order to even get offered a bonus room event, you have to specifically seek out E1 and engage the isk doubling service.

More wankers to eve

No, but it would be nice to get an answer from our wonderful CSM representative, if he has the intestinal fortitude to do something besides sling things at people from behind his blog.

Just because it seems you are stupid or labile enough to fall victim to the scams selection process, and not realise it, does not mean it is still not a selection process.

Let me repeat what I said earlier, so you can re-read it perhaps more attentivelly:

The entire scam, from beginning to end, which escalates to outside the game, is a selection process for victims.

Only those stupid or otherwise impaired enough to participate in the Bonus Round, ever approach Erotica1's doubling service in the first place. These stupid or labile victims are then exploited for purposes of enjoying their suffering in the out of game Bonus Room event by Erotica1 and his associated escrow functionaries, and other people inclined to enjoying the sound of another persons distress and suffering over the voice channel. This, ofc, after they have already been (legitimately) parted from ALL their assets.

It is predatory on the community of EVE, and its entire scam structure is designed to attract and entrap those who are stupid or labile enough to A) not be likely to overcome the ridiculous and asinine hurdles and demands placed on them in the Bonus Room process (for the enjoyment of all persons listening in) B) for some reason incapable of understanding that they are being exploited and taken advantage of in a malicious manner with harmful intent. C) Are most likely to become emotionally compromised under the duress and distress deliberately caused by the perpetrators, which aborts the Round and further feeds the sadistic joy of the listening participants.

Have you participated in the Bonus Round?
If so, where is the recording?

Literally the first thing said in the recording is that it is being recorded.

I suppose he just finally got around to writing it.

Would that not suffice as a reason?