Out of Pod Experience

1. Account sharing is against the EULA (had to say that)
2. Addiction comes in many forms, doesnt matter what the person is addicted to, getting addicted to one thing or another will be very easy, this is really the issue
3. Cruelty? This is no different than him being a junky then going clean and wondering why his 'friend' junkies are pissed at him

I doubt this is legit anyway but it got me to post so thats good I guess, nice that you know what ransoming is but dont know the difference between company and corporation.

Also if you go to rehab to cure an addiction, the last thing you would do when you leave rehab is restart the addiction, thats like when a fat person rewards themselve with cake after a workout, it makes as much sense as giving cocaine to a junky as a reward for not doing cocaine for a week.

I would say this is 100% a troll but tbh it sounds like a typical scenario that is all so common in life, if it is legit, you my dear are partially responsible for his demise.

Also who pushes their partner and forces them to tell stuff, controlling much? If you had a better understanding he would share his thoughts with you anyway

I'm sorry, but if anyone OD's over an internet game he has more serious issues then said internet game.

Either there are other issues that and some game merely gave the last push over the edge(and if the game did not, then something else would have not much later) adn you should look at/blame/deal with whatever got him to that point in the first place

or, if it is the games fault entirly, then the person is rather unstable to begin with and if it wasnt for the game, then something else would have pushed him over the edge sooner or later. Then again, pretty much same as the other point.

I'm sorry for your hardships, but dont put the blame on some internet game.

I"m sorry, but you are so completely and totally obviously wrong.

Your ingame character is not you? So does someone take over your body when you sit in front of your computer and force your hands to move against your will while you play this game? Of course not. YOU control what your character does, therefore YOU bear the responsibility for your actions in this game. Your ingame character is nothing more than a bunch of pixels. It isn't even an artificial intelligence.

And likewise, the ingame character played by other players ARE them. THEY control the actions of their characters. when your ingame character meets someone else's ingame character, an exchange is made. MMOs *ARE* a form of human interaction. Real life friendships are torn apart because of this game. At the same time, real life friendships are forged because of this game. Marriages end in divorce because of this game. Yet also people find their soulmates in this game.

EVERYTHING that happens in this game world is real. EVE Online IS real. Hundreds of employees at CCP work day and night in order to make it real.

Now, I'm not saying that in-game actions are equivalent to their real-life analogues - because they aren't. EVE Online thrives upon scum and villainy. But people need to realize that just because EVE is a game doesn't mean that their actions don't have consequences. Your actions ALWAYS have consequences.

To the OP, I'm sorry that your husband had to go through what he did. However, it would probably be in his best interests if he does not play this game. EVE Online isn't for everyone, especially for people who cope with problems in game by taking drugs in real life. That being said, I am glad that you care enough about your husband to say something, even in possible face of ridicule. Please be as supportive of your husband as possible - it is obvious to me that he needs your love and strength now more than ever.

I am sure there are a lot of people who want to be in command of those "others" who respond easily to being told "how things are supposed to be" when given certain kinds of orders.

It can be said then that MMOs prove that nothing has changed since the fall of Berlin in 1945 and the fall of Communism in 1989.

People will just as easily line you up and shoot you and your family now as then, when given the orders to do so, and hide behind, along with a uniform and trappings of a state apparatus to shield them both from physical reprisal and their own conscience.

The disagreement with the "this is EvE" crowd shows at least that there are some people who, no matter how fancy the uniform you give them and how tall the orders, will not carry out injustice against others. Even when they can, they don't, and for that latter type of person I am proud to say that I have trained at least 1000 of them in the use of small arms.

Your list of achievements is vast and growing, you're so awesome.

Difference being that it is entertainment. People LIKE being evil sometimes. We like shooter games and movies with explosions. We LIKE having a game where things are cut throat and we're going to play that way. Just like anyone who doesn't like blood shouldn't play a bloody game, or people who don't like nudity shouldn't watch porn... if you can't handle a cut throat game then GTFO my EVE.

Just to note a response to all the folks who are commenting that the victim this thread is speaking about should quit eve because he can't handle it.

This person was playing eve WAY before he developed a substance abuse problem, which I might add occured out of legitimate perscription to the drug.

This person has had an 8 year long eve online career that was quite succesful and included up to 12 active accounts at a time, 4 of which he considered mains and had logged in daily. He wasn't even introduced to the substance until about 2 years ago if I remember correctly.

The argument that he shouldn't be playing eve because he cannot handle it is incredibly incorrect and I hope this helps to clarify any misunderstanding regarding the topic.

I remember when the Star Trek fans were leaving for the new Star Trek game that was supposed to kill Eve....

I called the story a troll, we figured out fairly quickly who was the originator of this thread.

And you know what? This is EVE Online, not hello kitty online or WoW. He was booted because he was bad at eve and got his stuff blown up more often than not.

I've not been able to verify that any of the assets he claims that LVSKY stole was actually his to begin with, or even existed outside of his mind, especially not, and I quote your quite entertaining mail: http://pastie.org/private/2pju2xy0oj5ffbem54vhzw


As far as I know, he left about 10k arkonor, 5k bistot (or something to that effect) and some kernite, aswell as 5 hulks, but they weren't even tanked, much less faction fit. FWIW, he owed wolfie over a bill isk so the hulks were given to him as compensation.

You people need to go back to ******* elementary school and learn to ******* read.

Her husband suffered a physical injury and became addicted to the pain meds, not Eve. After getting out of rehab for the pain meds, he fired up his computer and realized that he was in a douche corp who stole all his ****. He was in rehab for the painkillers, not Eve, but this put him back over the edge due to his fragile state of mind.

Holy ****, people, it's literally a 4th grade reading level. Everyone who's going on about how he shouldn't have let himself become addicted to Eve should just eat the barrel of a shotgun right now because you're even more pathetic due to your inability to read elementary English.

That said, it's the internet. Eve is the last thing you wanna play if your sensibilities are easily offended. The entire premise of the game is to screw over everyone you can in order to put yourself on top.