Its how many days now since the incident? And we still have people posting articles to news sites and searching for Sony reps twitter accounts specifically to abuse the CCP/Sony relationship to remove Mittani from the game.

If any of you were concerned with The Wis you would have taken it up privately with CCP and The Wis. By smearing his private life across the public stage you are exposing The Wis to far more abuse then The Mittani and goonswarm EVER did. Sure, Mittani may have already smeared it infront of a FANFEST camera, who's audience is pretty much purely Eve players. But what the rest of you have done is taken it MUCH further. You've now taken it onto every news site, twitter account, and facebook page you can find.

You all say its hurting the game's reputation? You're the ones who smeared it across every news site you could find. CCP would have handled the situation in private where they could show The Wis the dignity he deserved.

You have now started to search for ways to deliberately abuse CCP's industry relationships. If the abuse of the Wis isnt enough, many of you are now in violation of the EULA by deliberately damaging CCP's business in order to further your selfish in-game goals.

Anyone deliberately dragging CCP's name through the gutter in order to accomplish their in-game goals should be held equally accountable for their violations of the EULA.

Completely agreed. The only people that are raging about this are people that will suffer from the titan nerf, a possible incursion nerf, Riverini, and NPC forum alts. Meanwhile rational thinkers can see beyond the bullshit and discover that there is actually no problem. Mittens did a dumb thing while drunk, realised what he did and wrote a heartfelt apology (along with giving him all the money in his character's wallet). The Wis didn't even realise that this happened until someone in-game pointed it out, and even then he (Wis) remained completely indifferent about the incident.

(By the way, this probably should have gone in the apology thread to avoid further clogging of GD with topics about this)

To be fair...do you honestly think that the goons wouldn't be doing the same thing to get rid of an enemy alliance leader given the opportunity? They're not exactly known for having any sort of boundaries when it comes to metagaming. I have no reason to believe they wouldn't.

And then we'd see a bunch of "pubbies" complaining how it's hurting EvE and a bunch of goons saying, "Cry me a river."

It's a little hypocritical but then again, it's to be expected a bit too. **** off the whole world and the world isn't exactly motivated to come to your defense. It's like the child-raping, drug dealing murderer suddenly taking a stance for civil rights. Sure, rights may have been violated but such people don't make good defendants for that kind of thing.

The Mittani may make a great villain. Alex may make a good CSM member and chair. The game wouldn't be the same without the goons. But you know...

So yeah, I sort of agree with you. This kind of meta-gaming should be off-limits. But, well....that's EvE...and this is exactly the kind of game the goons like to play. I can't really bring myself to feel to sorry for them about it, and I'm sure they'll survive.

If you are so concerned about the wis have you send him a message to see if he is ok?

No?

Didnt think so

Indeed, there are a scary number of people who say Mittens is harming Eve, thus we need to make sure EVERY site talks about how bad Eve is because of him.

It's depressing really. The people ranting and posting on every single site they can find have done 10x the damage The Mittani's comments ever did.

I'm seeing several sites where the same people are posing on sites bringing it up.. The more bad press they make, the more they get to say "See, here's all the bad press he caused.."

Not saying I support Mittani.. Not defending his actions.. But really there is a large number of people in the community who need to take a look in the mirror at themselves, and their motivations.

That's also not to paint everyone who is upset at this with the same brush either, a lot have honest issues and no motivations beyond that.. but there are far far too many who do.. and they are doing their best to see that CCP and Eve gets as much bad press as it can because they have some hate for the man, his alliance, or his positions.

Man the hypocrisy in this thread.

We are mad at mittani for saying to a player go kill yourself! But no! This isn't about the guy with the mental health problems at all!

You realize that on the first page of this very forum there's a thread of someone looking for a Sony rep's twitter info so they can do exactly that, right?

This isn't conspiracy, this is "**** that is actually happening right now".

Well seeing how the guy was most likely lying also about being suicidal...cause I know for damn sure when a person says that they are going to kill themselves they are past the point of no return or just looking for sympathy

Well seeing how he claimed to be suicidal and a few days ago said he forgot about the incident and laughed about it

I bolded a part where I believe you may be wrong. I read somewhere that several hundred thousand PS3 players also watched the fanfest feed.

That being said, I agree with you. This may turn out badly for The Mittani but our community has taken a hit in this scandal.

CCP doesn't need any bad publicity right now as it claws its way back from last year's debacle and readies itself to release DUST.

I hope this blows over quickly.