EVE General Discussion

Issler should resign for trying to spin the story for his own gain.

People need to learn the difference between griefing and cyber bullying. This was griefing not cyber bullying.

You seem to be making arbitrary statements without any signs of logical reasoning.

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They are blogs made by players.

You can not compare blogs made by players to those sites that companies like CCP rely on heavily for marketing and advertising.

Whilst I generally do not like these sites and rarely bother visiting any of them simply because they don't give a **** about the players or games, just simply which developer pays them the most to get a good review, companies like CCP, Like Sony pay a hell of a lot attention to them.

Oh please. If you think that Sony gives a damn about this incident, you're worse than your posting.

**** like this happens every day in game. Eve is well known for being a game that encourages ganking, scamming, and other bastard-like behavior. Spend a day in Jita and you'll see worse. Sony isn't going into this blind.

It's like when a firefighter puts a bunch of boxes in front of the emergency exit, or smokes in bed and sets their house on fire. It's one of those things they should just know better because it's their job.

Sort of like a lawyer/paralegal whatever knowing that cyberbullying is a crime - because it's their job to know.

Jesus we have some idiots on these forums.

The word will spread and soon this will be known as the biggest meta-gaming battle for power in EVE ever. And then EVE will grow even bigger.

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I genuinely hope it doesn't.

At the moment in the UK their is a witch hunt going, and has been for a while now, blaming computer games for a host of different things.

Coupled with the daily reporting about instances of Cyber Bullying - Somebody only today was sentenced for racially-aggravated public order offence to incite violence and will spend up to 56 days behind bars for a 1 racist internet message he twitted.

This is what some people don't seem to realise. There is potentially a massive fall for CCP if they do not act quick and if somebody who wants to make a name for themselves gets hold of the story and it goes main stream.

One of the most dangerous things about the internet is its anonymous nature. It blurs the lines between what is acceptable and what is not. As a direct result you end up in situations like this one. Things get said. In here and more severely in the game it's 'harmless.' Out in the real world we have things called consequences. The Mittani should have known better. We are all adults and we should attempt to act like adults. Especially when we stand up in front of a group of other adults, regardless of our 'standing' within the community I don't know any of you personally and I can say that 99% of you, based on what you post here, I wouldn't especially care to know. Those in Goonswarm rushing to defend The Mittani have motive to do so, those rushing to attack him also have motive to do so. I very much fail to see how it accomplishes much of anything frankly. What is more disconcerting in the callous, flippant, nature of the criticism directed at the alledged victim through all of this Suicide and suicide prevention are not something to joke about nor should it be regarded flippantly. A person's rationale for feeling the way they feel is not for us to judge. The worthiness of the reasoning is not important and regardless of what intent this individual had in writing what he wrote the simple fact is that The Mittani and through the CSM; CCP have an obligation to take it seriously That is the true failure here in my opinion. What was said at Fanfest was out of line. What has been written in this threadnaught by some is even more disturbing to me in its callousness. When someone writes what this person wrote you take it seriously and you do what you can as a human being Suicide is a permanent solution to what is very often a temporary situation, it is not a laughing matter. Hiding behind an IP address and a Avatar does not change that What becomes of all this is not for us to decide and whatever penalties result I am sure they will be thoughfully considered. All we should ask of ourselves as a community of adult human beings playing a game is to act with a shred more decency and a little more decorum. The world is watching this and what you put on the internet is written in ink.