EVE General Discussion

When the controversy over CCP's micro-transactions last summer was at it's peak, dozens of players were banned for "harassment", with many other threatened. Players like Helicity Boson were banned for telling a Dev to "die in a fire", as a prominent example. Others were banned for even less inflammatory verbiage. Some of them still remain banned, despite doing nothing more than speaking truth to CCP. I almost was banned just for asking players to post a simple "boo" at CCP Soundwave over his Fearless article. CCP employees were indignant about "the level of harassment" against him during the controversy. Yet, calling for players to harass someone until they commit suicide, that's apparently okay provided that they don't work for CCP.

CCP has no consistency with how they enforce their EULA. There are separate rules depending on "who you are." If any of us "normal" players had written the words that Mittani spoke at Fanfest, we would have been automatically banned from the forums and in-game. If you wrote an eve-mail to your corp advocating that they go harass another player who was known to have mental issues until he committed suicide, you would be perma-banned in-game.

Players in the past have been banned for simply helping police the game, one player to the point where you can't even speak his name because he exposed the t2 blueprint scandal years ago. Perhaps if he had been on the CSM, such behavior would have been acceptable, eh?

The devs and company treats their friends and drinking buddies far differently than they treat the average player. The average player would have been instantly banned. You would have been instantly banned for doing even half of what Mittani did on video at fanfest. It would not have taken players pointing it out to the gaming media, it would have been done as soon as a GM or dev saw the harassment. It would not have required some sham "investigation."

Whether or not you agree with their rules, everyone should agree that the company should apply them consistently no matter who the player is. Either remove the rules against harassment, etc, or enforce them across the board fairly and logically.

Updated:http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=28576 - It took far longer than usual, but CCP actually did enforce their EULA in this case fairly consistently. Nice job, a very big surprise that really helps restore player confidence in your ability to be fair.

Excellent. Thanks for the free publicity

The Mittani shouldn't get any special treatment, if it was anyone of us we would've been insta banned. The fact the he hasn't been banned shows CCPs stance in the situation. They might just be waiting for this to blow over, also kinda sucks when people working for news broadcasters learn about these things...

Just for my clarification, are you referring to something that was done using the software that the EULA pertains to or outside of the software, like at Fan Fest or something where the EULA is not applicable?

Hurry up and finish quitting the game, your death knell is getting tiresome.

Simplistic reasoning for simplistic people. I'm certain you just convinced a lot of people.

Yeah, I'm off.

Money is pretty simple.

People protect it.

When you grow up you learn this.

I do think Mitts is going to get some type of punishment, but damn, can we let the process work first? Let CCP do their investigation first to see what they find.

Yea I see what you are saying, but man, trying to get someone to commit suicide...thats Brutal, even by EVE standards. Thats the type of attention CCP doesnt want Im sure.