You guys should probably wait for the official Dev blog before panicking and jumping to conclusions. Reading the EVE news article, some things are very strangely written, other things are very off the mark and seem to have been taken completely out of context for what Soundwave will have explained.
The dev blog Is written, and is ready to be released very soon.

EN24 writing things off the mark and out of context? Color me shocked

I love being a dumb troll who tries to post and look cool only to end up looking stupid

http://www.evenews24.com/2012/10/08/eve-vegas-ccp-soundwave-discusses-winter/

It's the nature of people to speculate on the info they have available. Since all they currently can rely on is hearsay, that is what they use to speculate and draw conclusions from. If you want to manage this behavior, you're going to have to come out with some concrete facts about the mechanic. Otherwise the article is still the only solid info available, so people will speculate based on it.

what do you think the dev blog will be about?

Sex.

BINGO!

BINGO!

wow, this all sounds really stupid. It's more of a legal assassination system, rather than a bounty system.

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Not sure if I actually want to hear about Devs sex lives (if they even exist).

In fact, I call for less reproduction more Bounty Hunting Dev Blog writing

Corp thieves and spies do not incurr any sec hits.

A Dev Blog about Bounty Hunting is bound to involve someone getting screwed.

Have you considered being respectful and polite towards others, instead of acting like a gigantic douchebag? That way people would be less willing to pay huge sums of money to get your sorry ass driven out of the game. If you get a bounty because of your in-game actions, then I'd consider it just a consequense of your actions and a part of normal gameplay.

Let's imagine, for a moment, that there was a large group of people who generally behave as douchebags because that's what they consider fun. These people have access to "infinite ISK" in game because they have tech moons, freighter ganking alts and FW plex spinning alts. They have so much ISK they don't know what to do with it. So they just start a campaign of putting bounties on people who post in forums or have a blog.

Does that mean that people who post on forums or have a blog have been impolite to others? Or would this just be a case of douchebags paying a large sum of money to get polite people driven out of the game?

I can see a spike in alt-posting and a drop in community participation if this bounty-on-anyone mechanism doesn't have some kind of counterbalance in place.

Let's imagine, for a moment, that there was a large group of people who generally behave as douchebags because that's what they consider fun. These people have access to "infinite ISK" in game because they have tech moons, freighter ganking alts and FW plex spinning alts. They have so much ISK they don't know what to do with it. So they just start a campaign of putting bounties on people who post in forums or have a blog.

Does that mean that people who post on forums or have a blog have been impolite to others? Or would this just be a case of douchebags paying a large sum of money to get polite people driven out of the game?

I can see a spike in alt-posting and a drop in community participation if this bounty-on-anyone mechanism doesn't have some kind of counterbalance in place.

Log in, check bounty, hmmm 100m, log in second account, shoot 1st account, collect money.

I'm confused as to what part of that you interpret as "out of the game".

That won't be possible with the new system. If you try it you'll simply end up incurring a loss.

Why wouldnt this work if you have a second account? Bounty on first account log in second account get in noob ship on bounty account and let second account kill and collect bounth. How will they tell difference between your secound account or any other?

Why wouldnt this work if you have a second account? Bounty on first account log in second account get in noob ship on bounty account and let second account kill and collect bounth. How will they tell difference between your secound account or any other?

Relax, the bounty system won't make people who have bounties free for all to everyone else. That will be reserved for, uh, people who steal bookmarks out of bait cans and targeting mining vessels without their pilots' permission (coming in 2014).

Also, all the people getting ready to jump on the alt bandwagon for forum posting just to avoid bounties make me sad for the state of gaming as a whole. I don't understand how someone can insist on playing a shooting game while having less balls than an underbudgeted inner-city school gymnasium. With all the people I **** off, I'll probably hit ten figures in a month. And guess what? I'll wear that **** as a badge of honor. I've never even considered using alts to post on forums, unlike these tiny cowards who are scurrying in panic like ants under a microscope. Way to play a videogame.

From first read of the EveNews24 article, the Bounty system looks problematic at best. Even the entire idea of removing NPC enforcement in a game so skewed toward dickery sounds a bit goofy, (if so maybe let Roleplayers play Concord) but given EveNews24's stellar record on getting the facts straight it does make sense to wait for the Dev blog before rage quitting.

People post with alts for many reasons. Some corps have a code of conduct that restricts them from posting on the forums as they represent that corp.