EVE General Discussion

Well considering a Former CSM and the current active leader of the most powerful player bloc in EVE actually taunted and encouraged a guy to commit suicide, I'm not sure why we're suprised at the prevalence of this disgusting behavior in our community.

It is a cancer, and ALL of it must be removed

‘deindividuation’ within crowds causes people to lose their identities and consequently behave in inevitably anti-social ways. Over thirty years of empirical work from the social identity tradition (for a review see Reicher, Spears, & Haslam, 2010) has discredited these claims. This research has shown that rather than a loss of identity within crowds, there is ashift from personal to social levels of identification. Instead of acting in terms of the norms and behavioural limits of one’s personal identity, within a psychological crowd one therefore acts in coherence with the norms of one’s salient collective identity. These norms will differ depending upon which social identity is salient at any given time, e.g. as a resident of a local community, supporter of a sports team, or as a member of an audience at a television recording. Crowd behaviour is therefore rooted in social context, such that individuals may even act more pro-socially in a crowd than they would do alone.

Stumbled upon this when I remembered a Darren Brown experiment "The mask". What is worrying in this paragraph taken from a psychological response is it states that often in deindividuation people act the way they are socially expected to.

Now in a game like eve where CCP sell and even pride themselves on making a lawless, ruthless environment where being devious, deceitful and just plain nasty offers instant gratification and rewards. How do we expect many people to act? Eventually something will cross the line and CCP will have to act and make a stance. Personally I think this is the instance where this is needed before any real harm comes to anyone because of this game.

This goes so much farther than just Erotica 1.

That's it, I'm calling your babysitter.

And yet CCP advertises this

I think you are in the wrong game.

i dont like repeating myself but ill say once again.

its bollox there is no and never has been a winner of the bonus round. The whole point of the scam is to take everything and push it as far as possible. only the vain hope of winning keeps the mark coming back for more. sertain cretins like to say that there was a winner so the con doesnt die totally.

no one will play if they think there is no chance of winning.

I hate scammers like you. At least Erotica 1 doubles your ISK. Your actions show you are morally bankrupt.

People like you should be banned by CCP based on MY feelings.

Don't we all? We are EvE players after all.

I hear a guy manipulate somebody to intentionally humiliate him using in game leverage with false promise and going public on top of it.
You got to be a total douche not to even consider it as something wrong.

I could care less about lost pixels but if I read that they use this chat room in a way that can harm people and intentionally set everything up to dodge ban hammer then no matter what some twisted individuals think this is a case for outrage and I'm glad that at least part of this already ****** up community is able to pull they eyes out of their ass and realize that things went too far.

Go chase a kangaroo and stop acting like wrong is ok because it's cool.

Why is CCP responsible for the actions of an individual who does another individual harm over a game? Does said individual not have any control over their emotions and can they not tell the difference between a video game and real life?