I'm waiting to see if this goes viral. As I have said before, I always pause before telling people who know about games that I play Eve, because the response is already not very enthusiastic.

If this incident goes viral, then I will be ashamed of playing this game and will have to consider my associations in the long term.

"C. User Content

The System may allow you to communicate information, such as by posting messages in chat rooms, on bulletin boards and other user-to-user areas (collectively, "User Content").

User Content that you cause to be communicated to the System may not (i) violate any statute, rule, regulation or law; (ii) infringe or violate the intellectual property, proprietary, privacy or publicity rights of any third party"

Erotica1 is communicating, ingame, through means of chat functions and bulletin boards that he provides a service OUTSIDE of the game, namely the "Bonus Room".

What that "Bonus Room" has turned out to be, as evidenced by the recording, is a 2hr psychological torture, coerced by the players seized assets and leveraged against the false promise of its return if the person completes the humiliating, degrading and arbitrary demands issued to him by the persons located in this out of game environment, while simultaneously harassing, ridiculing and insulting him.

The conduct the victims are subjected to in this OUT OF GAME environment....

There's no consent with coercion. Obviously after having his stuff taken and fearing if he didn't do what they said and agreed to what they asked they would not return it there was coercion. No consent at all.

Really irrelevant though unless he sues them.

No consent at all.

There are several gaming sites more or less calling the eve player base complete scum.

Change is needed.

Can't sleep myself. I'm supposed to be napping before a 24 hour shift, but the benadryl is doing nothing.

This thread is AMAZING though, viewed through a haze of opiates.

I didint imply. I did tip the FBI, and several other agencies.

Many comments about bad press here
but wasn't it Ripard Teg who brought this matter up and made a big deal out of it?
how's he not responsible for a hypothetical bad press that may come out off this?
should he be banned alongside Erotica if the only reason to ban erotica is to avoid bad press?

Well we can have him removed from the CSM but due process and paperwork is gonna take about 6 weeks. I'll get right on it.

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Umm, the results of CSM9 will be announced May 3rd, which is less than 6 weeks away. I don't think it was a serious suggestion.

Actually, I suspected you were just having some fun. But the other two...

Mr Epeen

So imma put aside the rage and ask an opinion of both sides;

Almost 300 pages and nary a peep from ccp. No matter what side you're on...ain't that weird?

Then what is the point of the unwinnable game?

And another business day passes in CCP Iceland with no acknowledgement whatsoever, other that falcon shutting down duplicate threads. Eterne spends his day tweeting about how awesome Fanfest is and commenting on how cute some animae shot also tweeted.

But zero about this scandal, in any way.
I know it will take likely take weeks to make some decision on this, but it is terrible business practice from a PR perspective not to acknowledge there is a crisis.

What is Jester gaining here exactly? Are you saying that the bonus room in normal Eve game play?

Really? Is that what they should do? Just lock it? Because you said so?

Or should they do what they are doing. Using it for feedback and a time killer while they formulate a response to an issue that would have come to a head sooner or later with or without Ripard as the catalyst.

They're giving us the respect of allowing us to post our feelings on this matter unmoderated. How often does that happen? If I were you I'd just back out of the thread now since you are so offended by this rare concession from CCP.

Mr Epeen

Agreed, its disintigrating into a typical General Discussion thread.