EVE General Discussion

Yes

EDIT 27/3 pm:

But -

I have now watched the whole Alliance Presentation, which by and large was interesting and (thanks, ExookiZ) quite a laugh.

It was however in the fourth quarter that things took a turn for the worse. That should have been expected, because you can clearly see from the beginning that the TEST, DNS and Goon CEO's are already loaded, and have a shedload of more alcohol spread out in front of them.

Their language was foul, their attitudes were loutish and they couldn't give a flying f***. This, from (two anyway) of the most powerful and influential players in the game. OK, probably to be expected but -

This, on a live World Wide Web feed available to any member of Joe Public who cared to click the Play button? That's a freaking PR disaster.

It's actually CCP who has to answer for this. They should have easily seen trouble brewing. They should have cut the feed when the language got out of hand and what was a reasonably professional presentation became a complete fiasco.

They should have banned alcohol from the stage, or allowed it and not filmed it. Or a compromise between the two. This isn't hindsight 20-20, this is Television 101. Live tv + alcohol = trouble.

I'm no prude - I'm thinking here about prospective new players. Because frankly, that half hour of effing, blinding, posturing and insulting is the worst single piece of universal PR nightmare CCP has manufactured, to date. And they could so easily have prevented it.

So I suspect the "investigation" into Mittani will also involve some major introspection and damage limitation.

I still think Mittani should resign as Chairman of the CSM but stay on the committee. He's made a decent and thoughtful apology. He can still be infuential. But he will need to take some definitive action, and giving away the contents of his wallet is no solution; he'll be more than recompensed by supporters.

I guess this thread will be locked soon which is why I've added what I hope is a more objective look at this affair. But for what it's worth, so far the No's outweigh the Yes's.