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I would hate to think the Goons consider carebears as the only people capable of tears, but apparently I was mistaken. I for one would love to see a goon fleet massed against a high sec fleet of everyone who doesnt like them. Let it be decided on the field of battle just like the old days.

The time is over for forum posts i guess, time to duke it out in low sec.

In the immortal words of half a dozen shirtless devs, HTFU.

EVE Online is a harsh, cruel world. The people populating EVE Online are referred to as "capsuleers", "characters" or (in still-can't-recite-the-alphabet circles) as "toons". (pardon me while I go have a hot shower to wash that taint off my soul)

It is entirely possible to have a virtual world where violence and treachery are the expected behaviour between characters, while still enforcing standards of behaviour between players in the real world. If you were playing Mortal Kombat, your character is expected to smash the snot out of the opponent. If you were to smash the snot out of the other player, you'd be going to court facing assault charges.

While not necessarily a crime in most jurisdictions, recommending a course of action in the virtual world with the intent of achieving some negative outcome in the real world is at the very least morally shady.

Clear as mud?

You have got to be kidding me. That line had to be a joke. CCP most certainly does condone this type of behavior. It is encouraged and lauded and bragged about and used as a point of advertisement. You push it all over the internet that Eve is the place where people are allowed to treat others as poorly as possible. The worse you treat others the better and the more press time you give it.

Further if anyone complains about the culture that CCP has purposefully and intentionally created of people mistreating others they are referred to the song written and preformed by Perma Band, and band consisting purely of CCP Devs and employees, in which they are told in no uncertain terms to " Harden The **** Up ".

You condone this behavior, You encourage it, You foster it, You cultivate it. I suspect the only reason you choose to deny it here and now is because someone in your legal department got a hold of you and told you that if this guy does kill himself you guys could be held liable for it. This dev blog is a disclaimer to try and disassociate CCP from any accountability for it's actions.

As far as the law is concerned this may server to insulate you from any financial punishment but in the world of action and consequence what happened on that Alliance panel is a direct result of the environment that you, CCP, have willfully and intentionally created, fostered and nurtured. You may be able to fool the law of the land but you can't fool the law of action and consequence.

Here is the official Goonswarm Federation response to CCP "growing up" and throwing The Mittani under the bus.

http://i.imgur.com/J42oU.gif

Enjoy!

Goon tears best tears. If people can't tell what sort of behavior is acceptable, their loss.

If Mitt had not told people to go and abuse that person, and had not given out the name...he'd have gotten away rather unaffected. But telling people on a live feed to find this person and abuse them is way beyond EVEs usual "tough love" play style.

As for if this were a real government official;
If a real government official had told people on television to contact someone and abuse them to make them kill themselves...Yeah, they'd get the boot. Or at least, they would in any country with a sense of self respect and decency.

This was also an action against the EULA on a far more public and open venue than in-game. A venue anyone with any intelligence would have figured would not be appropriate for such remarks. But then...he does represent Goonswarm...so yeah...

That being said, I'll stand by the guy that was targeted by Mitt. No one deserves that sort of thing.

[citation needed]

The ice interdiction, hulkageddon, etc: all brilliant strategies to gain commercial advantage within the game. In game activities impacting in game activities.

Can you provide some references to situations where players engaged in particular campaigns with the intent of causing emotional harm to the real person behind the character?

The CSM is not a government entity. It is a customer advocacy group, or at best a panel of customers.

Indeed it is. I'm going to get a Mack, fit it with a civilian shield booster, sit in a Gallente ice belt and decry to all and sundry in local that I am mentaly unstable.....

CCP sets the tone of Fanfest with it's events.

You can't have drunken quizes on one hand and demands for sobriety and people to "grow up" on the other.