What happened wasn't sandbox, everything was scripted and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh

You can't tell a story in EVE and truly involve the players because they'll just destroy everything and then spam local, every time. We're lucky that we were able to see an important Titan according to the lore go down at all.

BUT CCP SAID THAT WE CAPSULEERS ARE IMPORTANT. HOW DARE THEY LIE TO US

Only way this could have been avoided is if they handwaved everything, and that's lamer than allowing people to be there as events unfold. You're entitled, and in reality, this doesn't affect the gameplay of any capsuleer at all. This is just lore, and is for people that RP. Not everything is to be catered to you.

What people don't take into the equation (due to their previously mentioned entitlement issues) is that players in EVE are limited in their response when there are tons of people in a system. I mean, if the lore director in CCP wants to tell a neat story between X an Y and this titan being downed is the catalyst for this to occur, then he should be completely allowed. Why? Because you can't have everything in lore dictated by who has the bigger blob.

You're also right that CCP should've made the event more friendlier to blobbing.

But this whole notion that Live Events can be steered by smallsons that fleet up and head out to ~ruin the RP'ers fun~ is stupid. CCP should get up, distance themselves from the "emergent gameplay" crowd and focus on telling the story their way, and allowing capsuleers to just watch.