Mittani = Kevorkian. Resign.

The Mittani has built himself a brand (same as any other celebrity figure), his is that of a brash, offensive super douche but it gets attention inside and outside of eve.

So what more did you expect?

Personally, I see stuff like this and just think "I see what you did there".

God I hate being in a marketing company some times :P

Anyway,
If someone can be pushed to suicide by means of mails from the fanbase of a computer game, maybe humanity would be better off without them.
Not saying I think that, just posing it as a point for debate.

Besides, if CCP boots Mittani, just how many players are going to leave with him?

Nerfing Titans is fair enough. But nothing beats nerfing Mittens ;)

I don't care. What part of that do you not get? My moral code is far different from your moral code. You are not allowed to define what my moral code is and that's a fact of life. Morality has always been subjective to interpretation and how we define things to be good and bad on a case by case basis. For me, if my actions caused another person to threaten to kill themselves, why am I responsible? They make the choices themselves and I will never ever care. It has nothing to do with being a sociopath. It has to do with poor decisions that people make every day.

"I'm going to kill myself."
"Okay. And?"

If Mittani the Great was sincere in his apologies, he would have understood the gravity of his mistake and have apologized when someone questioned his misconduct after the Fanfest.

His nonchalant and rude replies are already solid proof that he had no willingness to apologize.

Only when his chairmanship was threatened and various media coverage brought spotlight to his misconduct, then he decided to write a half-hearted letter of apologies to the community.

Does Mittani the Great thinks we are that dumb to fall for his pathetic attempt to sway the crowd?

He already caused irreparable damage to EVE Online. Keeping him as part of CSM not only tarnish the reputation of CSM and CCP, but sets a horrible horrible precedent for the future fo the game.

Mittani the Great, please do us a favor and resign.

Do us all a favour and stop posting.

I did not pick the outcome or their threat therefore I am not responsible. These people make those choices out of their own doing.

Wow the internet is not magical faerie land of happiness and gumdrops. eve is ruthless and speech should not be censored in any way. and why the **** would you say your gunna commit suicide to someone you don't know all that well? to me it seems like this guy was not being serious. i don't know all the facts but if i was scamming someone and they said they were going to i probably would be like whatever have fun.

You're not a valid subscriber, you're a NPC alt. The opinions of NPC alts don't count for anything.

Wow the internet is not magical faerie land of happiness and gumdrops. eve is ruthless and speech should not be censored in any way. and why the **** would you say your gunna commit suicide to someone you don't know all that well? to me it seems like this guy was not being serious. i don't know all the facts but if i was scamming someone and they said they were going to i probably would be like whatever have fun.

I'd like to chime in on this.

I suffer from clinical depression. It varies in severity based on circumstances and the given day, and will pretty much be with me for the rest of my days. I don't keep it under control by bitching and whining about it online, I do it through a mixture of happy pills, exercise, willpower, a good diet, work and routine. I have to agree with Simi that the casual use of suicide as an attention seeker or threat, especially online, only reinforces the stigma about depression not being a disease but a character "defect". People who do this trivialize what isn't trivial, and he/she deserves the abuse they received.

Ultimately, when I was at my zenith, only I could pull myself out. Only I can beat back what Churchill called "the black dog." I will graciously accept the help of family and friends but in the end it's my responsibility to manage my depression and keep buggering on. What I will not do is attempt to guilt trip others, especially strangers, into feeling sorry for me. That is simply pathetic.

You are absolutely right. We don't care if people scam. It was COMPLETELY OK for Mittani to harras that unfortunate miner ingame. What became a big problem is that he, in front of thousands of audiences (both live and stream attendees), exhibited the best of EVE Online behavior by knowingly encouraging thousands of others to provoke a person with known suicidal tendency, to actually commit suicide.

By keeping Mittani as CSM, we are basically telling the world that it is completely ok to harras and drive others to commit suicide, and that CCP COMPLETELY SUPPORTS it!

Damn your perspective and logic!

I'll just add that I went through a period of severe depression myself years ago (bad breakup and consequences). It was not a good time in my life. The hardest part was bringing my family together and letting them know what was happening.

But you know what? If, at any point, I had told my family that I was considering killing myself over a ******* video game, my father would have handed me his gun and said "Don't make a mess in the house".

There's a huge difference between "cry for help" and "whining drama queen". People need to get some perspective in their lives.