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Right step forward. Professionalism and common courtesy should be observed at all times in public forums.
In bygone days, there were clear boundaries between appropiate and in-appropiate public behaviours - which I don't think many parents nowadays pass to their children.

This isn't about Mittani, this is about CCP "growing up" and sanitizing fanfest and the game, which would be utterly terrible for the game and for the community. There's a reason I don't fly around the world for a week to go to Blizzcon.

Now..THATS what im talking about.

I'm getting my cap stable covert ops just so i can sit and watch in Jita.

It will be.. glorious!

I wouldn't have gone so far as removing him from the CSM after he resigned as chairman.

Ah well, its done now. Make sure you talk with the other CSM members to smooth over the hard feelings as good as it still can be done.

Good Job, raging pubbies. This is why we can't have nice things.

Poor goon.... want a tissue for your tears?

Yup PR-wise live broadcast makes a huge difference over small room.

No - when mistakes are made in front of an audience the sponsors very seldom jump up immediately to call more attention to it.

#1 they usually want to decide on official punishments before making an official response.
#2 responses made on the fly quite often make things worse - especially if a nervous on the spot authority garbles things such that it sounds like he agreeded with the faux paus.


In the future CCP will obviously add in a delay to live broadcasts. I suspect 1-2 minutes as CCP is not professional in business of censoring. They may even add a pause button to be able to call for a higher ruling.

LOL - CCP may force speakers to physically choose between 3 buttons before answering any question (a) no comment (b) inappropriate to respond in this forum (c) question accepted. The audience would see the light and be required move to another question if not accepted. Enforcing the old stop and think.

I suspect that questions to speakers might also need to be submitted via chat for CCP moderater approval. Then when you get a green light at your chair you read out your question -- White House press conference style. Because apparently the challenging nature of the questions in some way directed the non-PC response in this case. This is not the first time a speaker has responded inappropriately to a question that in retrospect they should have ignored. Those who are not regular public speakers often feel they need to respond to every question -- rather than dodging with "no comment" or "it would be inappropriate for me to respond in this forum".

Let's not get confused. The Mittani wasn't asked for the players name, or even directed to answer the question. It wasn't a question
The commenter during the Q&A said, "By the way, that guy has joined (some group) and then got kicked out of there too.
There was no need for further comment, and there certainly wasn't a good reason to respond with the character's name and the CTA that Mittens gave.

This game is changing and will continue to change, the days of Fanfest being a bunch of drunks hamming it up was over the minute that CCP partnered with Sony and entered the mega corp world of entertainment.

It is sad to see so much Goonie whining here the last couple days. I thought tough guys and bad guys were made of stiffer stuff.

What no cries from the other side about religious tolerance?

Church of Darwin: Bullies exist to make sure the weak don't breed.

Always a few honest true believer types. Just don't make your love of EVE too obvious to the RL world.

I still want to play in the house CCP built. Please don't incite the mob to set it on fire.