EVE General Discussion

"A grief player, or "griefer," is a player who devotes much of his time to making others’ lives miserable, in a large part deriving his enjoyment of the game from these activities while he does not profit from it in any way" - from the support page. I have seen numerous cases of bumpers being threatened with bans/banned for this.

I agree with you, definitely not very professional at all.

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The winner of the Eve Darwin Award for 2012 goes to....

Konorr

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Actually it is. But its up to the GMs discretion as to what is griefing.


That CCP encourages this behavior, even that its a bot, annoys me to no end. ******* ban the idiot, do it right, have some sense in the thing and be professional about it. But to psuedoly encourage more such activities by the player base in emulation isnt what the employees of a company should be doing.

Thats one of the things so far with Screegs, he may be an ex goon, this, that and the other thing, but hes acted and shown professionalism in his actions and performance as a CCP employed bot hunter.


So yeah... dont **** around with it, if theyre breaking the rules ban them, if theyre not dont play "**** ****" games that remind me of station hugging and other silly annoying childish mechanics than doing a job.


Will this be disliked? Yup. But thats why Im posting it. Its the truth.

Truth and opinion are very different things sir. Sit down before you hurt yourself flailing around with that sword of righteousness. You think they should be cold, professional, efficient, fair enough, that's what you want from CCP. You are entitled to your opinion. But look at the situation from my point of view; as far as I am concerned what they've done here is draw attention to a botter, focus our attention on the negative backlash and public humiliation that will befall culprits and, I would imagine, re-enforced the negative consequences associated with botting in the minds of many people. I'm not saying it will have worked, or that it will be a wildly successful move, maybe publicly humiliating botters will encourage people to do it for attention, who knows, but it's still a viable, intelligent way of dealing with the problem, albeit one that doesn't sit well with your personal opinion of what CCP should do.

So before you start passing off your views as universal truths, stop and think that what you feel in your gut, isn't always 'right' and that perspective alters everything

Personally, I would much rather have a dev that has fun with their job and is willing to connect with the community over promoting a "professional" culture.

Considering the "professional" game development companies out there, the lack of imagination behind the products that they produce, and the disregard that they have for their playerbase, it's refreshing to see devs step out from behind the curtain and share something with the community that they personally found amusing/interesting.