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Captain Tardbar
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Posted - 2013.01.25 00:07:00 -
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Andski wrote:Scamming is allowed in this game and it hasn't hindered its growth.
There is no scientific proof on whether it does or not.
Statistically, chances are people have quit because they have been scammed, though.
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Posted - 2013.01.26 01:30:00 -
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Katran Luftschreck wrote:ChaseX wrote:Maybe the kid shouldn't play EVE at all and what the heck is going on if you get a PLEX from your mom to birthday or something. Jesus go play outside when you are a kid. Maybe the kid is in a wheelchair. Maybe the kid has asthma. Maybe the kid just likes playing EvE. One thing is for certain, though: Someone out there just stole some kid's birthday present.
I would argue that scamming in EvE doesn't make you a bad person but shows that you fantasize about being a bad person.
Which I suppose if you think about it, still makes you a bad person.
If there is a god, he probaly still considers stealing play money as stealing. You probaly won't burn in the same circle of hell as say Bernie Madoff, but it is probaly not a pleasant place.
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Captain Tardbar
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Posted - 2013.01.26 02:05:00 -
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Andski wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:I would argue that scamming in EvE doesn't make you a bad person but shows that you fantasize about being a bad person. Which I suppose if you think about it, still makes you a bad person. If there is a god, he probaly still considers stealing play money as stealing. You probaly won't burn in the same circle of hell as say Bernie Madoff, but it is probaly not a pleasant place. theft is not possible in this game unless you hack somebody's account, which is against the EULA. all forms of "theft" in this game are actually fraud or embezzlement, hth
Technically, the EvE banks that folded did the same thing Bernie Madoff did. They took money promising to give a return and eventually never returned anything and made off with the money.
Sure the investors willingly gave their money over, but in the end the money was gone and therfore theft happened.
Theft happens all the time in EvE in other forms. People steal out of miners cans, other people's wrecks, and from player ships that somehow ended up as wreck.
I'm still calling it fantasy theft, but isn't it still stealing?
I mean I stole from the monopoly bank a few times growing up.
Its not really moral. I mean its not like robbing an old lady on the street immoral, but its negative behavior.
And if you fantasize about being immoral it means you enjoy being immoral deep down.
Which in the whole karmic nature of the universe makes you a somewhat bad person.
I've done some bad things in video games before. I've lied cheated and stole. So yes I am a bad person.
Don't be afraid of your nature. Be truthful about being a bad person deep down. Its not going to put you in jail or make your position of being right or wrong into question.
You like doing bad things to be people in fantasy environments in which there is no recourse to punish you.
Its not like you are going go out into the real world and try a ponzi scheme with old people.
Just admit that being bad in a video game does make you somewhat bad. Not that bad. But somewhat bad.
"Entitlement" is a euphemism for "I hate the way you play and it makes me cry like a baby".
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Posted - 2013.01.26 02:33:00 -
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Galaxy Pig wrote:I'm a good person for shouldering the responsibility and stigma of an antagonist.
Galaxy Pig is a bad person.
See doesn't that make you feel better about yourself.
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Posted - 2013.01.26 23:33:00 -
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Hazzard wrote:Scams in Eve are like scams in RL. When you get stung by one it hurts but after your wiser. If it makes you that upset repeat the scam on someone else to get your stuff back.
In real life, scammers go to jail.
Also the average person has a problem with the comprehension of cause and effect.
"Entitlement" is a euphemism for "I hate the way you play and it makes me cry like a baby".
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