EVE Search - Player morality in EVE online. Why did you leave it at the door?

Aubepine Finfleur wrote:

Bischopt wrote:

It's absolutely ridiculous how people make these connections between violent / cruel videogames and real life crime / psychopathy. Even talking about boiling or burning animals and killing people on a internet spaceship forum is pretty ******* dumb.

People act like assholes in eve BECAUSE it's a game. They wouldnt do it in real life. Most people who do evil things in eve are normal, moral people and they're not training themselves to become murderers by playing. There are those in real life who play video games and kill people, yes. But they're not killing people because they played video games, they're killing people because they're ****** up in the head and that has nothing to do with gaming.

This thread is stupid.

But you are even more, this point has been addressed before. There are two categories of people logging in EvE

- Those who enjoy it as a game, roleplay a capsuleer, and are out to amass virtual riches and internet spaceships. The game is an end in itself
- Those who don't care about virtual riches and internet spaceships, but only enjoy gamer's rage, hate mail, carebear tears etc. The game is a mere social platform to get cheap kicks out of complete strangers and delight in their distress. They wouldn't do it IRL because they are a cowardly bunch. Though, Herzog wrote earlier that online sociopathy may prevent RL acts of vandalism or worse, and I hope that he's right, that a broken New Eden helps prevent RL troubles.
And no, the gankbears are not normal or moral people. Their "ingame" goals and chatlogs amply demonstrate how quasi-autistic, selfish and completely devoid of empathy they are. We shun or isolate those people IRL, why should we suffer them online?

And you see, the broken New Eden environmnent (hamfisted Concord response, gateguns forcing blobby camps) is a direct consequence of this minority of online sociopaths, who do not enjoy playing a game, but enjoy other people's distress.

Boy oh boy do i enjoy rewording the same exact thing a hundred times, for people who cannot spend 10 minutes speed reading a thread to extract salient points !

Now, people who do not want to play an online game as an end in itself, but only abuse those who do, should they be allowed to log in at all ?

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They wouldn't do it IRL because they are a cowardly bunch. Though, Herzog wrote earlier that online sociopathy may prevent RL acts of vandalism or worse, and I hope that he's right, that a broken New Eden helps prevent RL troubles.
And no, the gankbears are not normal or moral people. Their "ingame" goals and chatlogs amply demonstrate how quasi-autistic, selfish and completely devoid of empathy they are. We shun or isolate those people IRL, why should we suffer them online?