EVE General Discussion

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So I just went to the library.

A woman shows up, sits next to me, passes out and is snoring really loud.
This is obviously inappropriate behavior, she obviously singled me out, she's obviously done this to other people before, and it's making me crazy.

Should I walk away, and tell one of the librarians, or is it acceptable to go into a ugly racist rant and threaten to gut her?

What does Rippard Teg and his minions think?

Absolutely. Its irrelevant. But its a nice attempt to shift the blame from the people who did do the wrong thing onto the victim. Actually, not its pretty transparent and a bad attempt.

Somebody took his stuff, granted it was just pixels, however that's irrelevant. Whats relevant is a number of people deliberately set out to humiliate and embarrass another person without any regard for them at all. They also made fun of him because he had a speech impediment which is vilification based on disability. There are a lot of things wrong with what they did and your pathetic attempts to try to justify the behavior is, well, pathetic.

Also relevant is if it happened again and a more imbalanced person was deliberately targeted and treated the same way causing that person to harm themselves then CCP would likely be liable in part since they are now fully aware of whats occurring and doing nothing would be pretty stupid from a legal point of view.

CCP has nothing to gain by allowing this behavior to continue and potentially a lot to lose.

I don't think I've seen someone flame out so spectacularly. You took a good long break from eve. You needed it, but now you're walking yourself back into my cross hairs, exercising the poor judgement we all know you posses.

You really don't get it?
I'll grant that the victim was, frankly, stupid. But that's beside the point. More importantly he was gullible and easily manipulated - just the kind of people E1 looks for.
People who've played this game for a while and intend to keep doing so for the foreseeable future assign value to these space pixels that oh-so-many on this thread claim they can just walk away from in the blink of an eye.
For all you know his whole world would've collapsed in his eyes if he lost it all and had to start over. And that's exactly what E1 and Co. are hoping for, nay, counting on. And that is exactly why he couldn't let go, couldn't leave.
They are predators who get their jollies from pushing people's buttons until they either 1) get sufficient entertainment value out of them or 2) push the right buttons to break them. This is a great example of social engineering at it's worst.

My personal stance is that E1 (and Co) should be permanently banned for repeated conduct completely outside the realm of common human decency. The in-game asset scamming part I'm completely fine with OTOH.

I have been playing this game for many many years now, and have never really been comfortable with the whole scamming thing. I think it spoils the game and actually drives people away. Scamming as become so prevalent in Eve its over taken the good aspects of it. Look at jita every single post in chat is a scam.

I dont like the fact that goonswarm do this constantly to a point its part of their culture, and sometimes the way they do it is a little creepy and weird and wrong.

But this is a whole new level, and its just not about a scam, its cyber bullying, torture at is very worse. I am sure this is certainly not the first case of this and its happening to others by other eve players.

You can hear from the start where this was going, and Erotica1 sounds really creepy tbh. They carried on for 2 hours, even when they knew the guy was getting upset, this is when you stop. Actually it should of never started.

This is for me the real darkside of eve, and where scamming takes it past gameplay. I have never played or seen a game that allows this to happen, or even breeds that type of person. The very idea of scamming has created these people, and CCP certainly has to take brunt of the blame for this as they endorse this type of behavior, but its gone a a step too far. as stated I am sure there are many Erotica1s lurking about.

This is just not scamming, its parasidic and morally wrong. Personally i would of called the police and given them the recording as people are now getting prosecuted for this type of thing. What gets me most is that there have been a few cases on twitter etc where people have committed suicide because of people like this. What if this guy did?

CCP has a duty just like twitter and others to protect its users.

However being a veteran player of this game, even after the time an investment i have made, every moral fibre in me is twitching. I am now seriously thinking do i want to pay, play or be a part of this game, ccp and its community if this is something that is happening to people. I certainly do not want to be associated with an organisation or game that endorses such actions and game play anymore.

Can somebody please remind me how many times Sohkar left the Bonus Room....only to return?




And this question would be directed to those who actually listened to the recording in its entirety...not the sheeple who just read the blog and are therefore experts in this situation....

Better watch out, Unsuccessful.

Logic, reason, and factual evidence doesn't work with the vast majority of this crowd.

Just the words of some dude who didn't get his way, and is strong-arming CCP into pursuing his will, via threats of " bad media coverage."

Who admitted to not perusing the recording, but then has the nerve to call people, in a recording he did not hear... torturers.

Both you and I know who the real people to blame are, and I am confident that CCP does as well.

And to think...we are the "bad people" coming from the hundreds of veiled threats in this thread.

And again, CCP, if it pleases you, you are more than welcome to the vast collection of actual factual evidence, that quite frankly is at your disposal. After all, I have been an outspoken supporter of the sandbox you built for us, and any help I can provide is just return for the kindness of enjoying your world. You guys are great.

If this was all done using EVE's in game comm system what do you think would have been the outcome ?