Toshiro Ozuwara wrote:TheGunslinger42 wrote:CCP are within their legal rights to ban any player for any reason.
That doesn't mean every ban is inherently fair, balanced, good for the game/community, intelligent and reasonable though. It just means they're free to make unfair, imbalanced, bad, stupid and unreasonable bans.
Equality is a delusion. Everyone is unique, every circumstance is unique and every moment in time is unique.
What you think is unfair, other people think is fair. There is no objective measure of fairness, and by playing this game, and agreeing to the EULA, we've all agreed to let CCP make decisions, at their discretion, wrt fairness.
Because CCP's staff is mostly human, they will make human (aka imperfect, subjective, biased, socially-normalized) decisions.
If you don't like that, find a game with robot GMs.
I guess I'm not being clear with my real issue here. I agree to abide by the TOS/EULA when logged on to CCP's servers, using their products/services, etc. be it the game itself, the forums, if I were at a CCP event like FanFest, etc. I don't have a problem with that. Like you said, I AGREE to that every time I log on.
That said, I don't believe that the TOS/EULA apply to me when I'm
not logged on to CCP's servers, using their products/services, etc. What I say or do when not in CCP's "sphere of control" is frankly none of their damned business.
Terms of
Service - When I'm not using the service, the terms don't apply.
End
User License Agreement - When I'm not acting as a user of their product, there is no agreement, there's nothing to agree or disagreed about!
So there's my issue. CCP doesn't own me, they own the Eve Online franchise, their Internet domain, etc, and just like if I were to visit their "house," I must of course agree to follow their rules when I'm there, but the minute I pull out of the driveway, I can turn the radio to whatever station I choose, so to speak.
CCP has no jurisdiction over anything outside of the Game, their forums, etc, and I find it quite literally horribly offensive, tyrannical, illogical and unreasonable for them to take action against anyone for anything they might say or do when not in CCP's "house."
Hope that clears up my position.