
Acac Sunflyier
Burning Star L.L.C.
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Posted - 2011.11.02 04:51:00 -
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Huehuehue wrote:I know this is going to be a controversial topic (mostly everyone vs. me I think...) but please read trough. This is not a troll attempt of kind, but this is an attempt to generate discussion on this topic.
It seems to me that most of EVE player community seems to think , even if they don't do this themselves, that it's okay to shoot down a lone miner or missioner in low sec, steal ore, threaten someone for money etc. "It's part of the game, deal with it" is what I hear most of the time. The question I want to ask you is this: Why do you leave your morality at login screen? Don't get me wrong, pvp and such is obviously okay when both parties do it for fun and enjoyment, which is the case with most pvp in EVE. Sure, no one likes to lose but that's part of the fun too. But when you kill a lone miner who's not even in a player corp that's just evil. You don't see people saying "well he shouldn't whine it's part of the life" if a guy wanders in bad part of the town and gets beat up do you? How would like it if I came up to you and beat you up, afterwards saying "hey don't get mad, god (aka the lead dev of life ;) ) made this possible so it's cool!". You don't see theist go around saying **** like that do you?
It's so easy to be an ******* to people when you both are anonymous and it's never going to get back you. What marks a real good and moral person is his ability sympathize with others regardless of the fact who and where the other person is. "It's part of the game" is just really really bad excuse for behaving like an ******* and makes me wonder if these people are just as bad irl, or do express their inner ******* online because they don't have the balls to do it irl? I know I'd much rather just say hi to that lonely miner than blow him to pieces just because.
Overall, Eve is a sandbox with enough peeps in it to populate a small city. Part of the appeal of playing a sandbox game is the ability to be a complete ass and be rewarded for it. In GTA/Saint's Row, players will run over old ladies, take off all their clothes and hip thrust at old ladies, get into a sewage truck and spray old ladies with poo, and get into an aerial vehicle and fly to the highest point possible only to jump out and tackle old ladies.
The same appeal is represented in Eve. Only with Eve you can replace the image of spraying an old lady with poo to spraying another person half way across the world with poo as they furiously stomp on their keyboard. |