Out of Pod Experience

Unfortunately, this is a trend that I've seen repeated again and again and again. CCP, or another company, tries to do what's best for the longevity of their product, and the ungrateful masses throw the proverbial Christmas tie back in grandma's face.

Here's a message to those that feel the need to b----, moan and whine when CCP doesn't 'snap to':

Grow. Up.

Seriously.

Grow the hell up.

Game design is not easy, and I speak from experience. That a game of EVE's complexity is even possible speaks to the dedication and perseverance on CCP's part. Whinging and whining when it's not your 'ideal game' is beyond ungrateful, given the scale of what they've already produced.

You say you can do better? Put your money where your mouth is. Go out and buy the hardware, hire the staff, and design the Next Big Game. Go on -- I'll wait. It's only a few million dollars, after all, and a couple of years of dedicated design and production is nothing, right?

Be thankful that we have games like EVE at all. With such a massively unappreciative audience, it's a wonder they even bother.

Well, I didn't asked them to come and poop on my moral principles. As much as I admire and sometimes enjoy their master work, I still hate the message it conveys. And I am perfectly OK if they learn why it is wrong to convey such message.

Causing harm to the weaker is not fun. Rejoicing in it is not ethic. And building a game on such premises is somewhere between mildly evil and utterly stupid. It is no longer a game when suffer is real, and who causes it for fun, deserves to get it back. As the ones who set up the device why that happened.

So, in my opinion, if CCP make a game about unconsequential virtual harrassment, they deserve to be unconsequentially harrassed back, at least virtually, i.e. eat forum hate and such.

"Someone pushed me because of your game and because of your game I can't push him back, so I push you back instead", that's fair in my book.

a) as Slade said, you can do it, as it is advocated by the game's design

b) more specifically to EVE, welcome to one of the many possible outcomes of mankind in space, simulated in this game, and playing with the fact that humans will be humans.

TL;DR, stop being disappointed with mankind's ugliness, take it as a fact, and be surprised by the good acts instead. cynical? yes, extremely, I can see that myself. doesn't make it less true tho...

True, but with more than a little work you can screen all those you let into your corp via limited access keys top check for alts. You can monitor character sales. It is all a process called due diligence, as in the real world due diligence is a pain in the arse. If you do not want to do it and you lay your trust in those that do not really deserve it then all you mentioned can happen. Those that work through all the hurdles to gain trust and then stab you in the back are usually the ones that do not hide after the fact as they want to revile in the glory of their accomplishment, and you can then push back.


Oh and ganking and biomassing is heavily frowned upon by CCP, that is why said characters must grind back the negative sec status before they can biomass.

my guess is that this "rule" is more of a per-case basis.

biomass a single character that has neg status once in a blue moon every leap year that ends up in a monday, and CCP won't do much.

start doing it as a common practice, and banhammer in yo face.


..or so I'm lead into thinking.

I'd rather have the idiots in our game anyway doing crap instead of doing what the 3 bored children who shot that Australian Baseball Player yesterday in America did "just to kill someone" out of boredom.

EVE is the lesser of 2 evils in that respect.

That's a whole different level of wrong, and it's absolutely disgusting. It has nothing to do with 'boredom,' either, because there's plenty to do when you're bored; it's just not all entertainment and diversion. The level of entitlement on display there is staggering. My thoughts go out to the victim's family and friends.

If a game like EVE dulls impulses like that even slightly by allowing people to listen to their shoulder devils for a while in a virtual environment, then I agree that it's a net win. That would be an interesting research study.

Read the article again. It's not talking about 'forum hate'; it's talking about threats of physical harm to developers and their families. In the US, sending a threat letter (or an e-mail) sent across state lines is a Federal crime.

You hear THAT, all you Carebear haters, and Nerf High Sec mongers? You're gonna be the ruin of CCP! So STFU already!

(please don't hunt me down and kill me or **** my wife in rl, mmkay?)

Hey, uh, I was just joking about that hunting you comment. You guys can come back.







Please?