Berrik Radhok
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Posted - 2007.11.30 23:09:00 -
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Edited by: Berrik Radhok on 30/11/2007 23:09:08
 Originally by: Sergeant Spot
My own hatred of goons is based on one, and only one incident:
They dragged a RL tragedy into the game, refused to face the issue beyond a few weak excuse attempts, and then proceeded to try and shift blame to the folks that called them on it for the crime of calling them on it.
Funny thing is, I never hesitated to team up with old enemies from the game Mankind, even after years of fighting and some very bitter experiences. I dont hesitate to respect current enemies, regardless of how bitter the fights are. After all, its all a pew pew space game, except when some filthy punk drags a RL tragedy in so he can mock it.
Strangely, I have absolutely no hate for Red alliance, nor for Razor, nor for IAC, etc. Maybe its because they never pulled that crap.
My contempt will disappear the same day I see a "real" mea culpa.
And if someone else in game does the same thing tomorrow, I'll treat them the same, with pretty much the same options for a mea culpa. (I know some goons dream of the day they can try and claim some BoB member did something similar, but BoB's responce would be a tad different, and that makes all the difference for me.....)
In fact, there is one incident from the game Mankind that is vaguely similar, and my response was similar. A player by the name of "Severed Wind" was threatening to commit real life suicide unless folks gave him game money, and doing so in such a way that some folks were wondering if he was serious. I was called to the scene by a friend.
I pulled out the suicide prevention material from some of the NCO training material I have laying about and used it. I also dialed 911 and reported the incident at the same time I was in game chatting with him.
I spent the next 3 weeks trying to get the game company (VIBES) to contact French law enforcement and report the issue. I made formal reports to my local law enforcement and tried to find hints to Severed Wind's RL identity in game, but never did.
Severed Wind heard what I was doing and contacting me with threats to himself to make me stop (text logs of the threats were turned over to my local police the next day).
As I told my local police, it was probably a stunt for free stuff by a kid, but all training says "treat it as a real", which the police agreed with.
If real, the kid needed help. If fake, it would do him good to be "talked to" by his local police for pulling the stunt.
Sadly, VIBES did not care, and went bankrupt not long afterwards.
Thats the only other incident where someone dragged such RL stuff into a game, and my responce to it.
why don't you go headbutt a lorry about it
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