Myriad Blaze
Common Sense Ltd
Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2014.07.15 00:03:00 -
[1] - Quote
Now, let's see...
Myxx wrote:This is the quote that got my attention:
EVE is a terrible game. I've heard horror stories about it, the pretty much legalized griefing that goes on in the game and ****. Guild officers robbing entire guilds blind, forceful takeovers of guilds and draining them. ******* over new players in general. Its just **** I've heard, I've never played the game though. I probably never will, why would anyone want to experience that?
Here's someone talking about EVE who has never played the game, who says he will never play it and yet seems to believe he knows it all. The internet is crowded with such people and anyone listening to them is to blame themselves.
Here's an "article" from someone who could have been the guy from your first quote. I would bet he didn't take the time to actually listen to the soundcloud file. And if I told you what I think about what happened later, I probably would get in trouble with the mods.
Myxx wrote:From a former player:
Sociopaths like E1 will always find victims because weak ones are numerous in our world.
Abusing them is never ok, even if they are willing to be abused.
CCP had to answer faster on this matter and they did not. My EVE accounts have been cancelled and I will never set foot in this universe (and I don't want to call it a game, I have too much respect for them) again. I am quite ashamed to have been blind for so long.
Enjoy your s***box. (the *** were put there by me, not by some profanity filter).
If this former player is who I think he is, this quote would be quite ironic. Because the player in question tried to intimidate other players with not very veiled RL threats.
Myxx wrote:From a steam review:
i also grew to mistrust the company CCP and the community of this game, although im sure there were lots of decent human beings amongst them. the biggest problem i had with the community happened when i first started playing. the leader of one of the most prominent corporate alliances had shown up to a livestream drunk and called out a player by his real name and asked his followers to grief this poor, totally innocent guy. the leader said during the livestream that he wanted the player to actually commit suicide irl, and the big bad leader was marshalling his ingame forces to "make it so".
this despicable behaviour was reprimanded with a slap on the wrist, a mere 30 day suspension from their little ingame council, and as far as i know, nothing more was done.
As far as he knows, nothing more was done... Well, if you google the incident in question you will learn that a lot more was done. And it wasn't a 30 day suspension from the CSM btw, but a temp ban from EVE (and more). So obviously the guy writing that steam review doesn't know much.
Myxx wrote:The point is... EVE has a reputation problem that gets people to never consider trying it to begin with. This is not good for the game. What should be done about it, if anything?
EVE is not for everyone.
In almost all other MMOs the player gets to be the hero, simply by following the storyline. And in the end - although it makes no sense - you will have hundreds or thousands of chosen ones. EVE is different. In EVE you have to work to be a hero (or villain). You gave to earn your reputation. And if you have it, you have to live with it and deal with the consequences. That's what brought me here.
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