the mittani did a nice job of it all by his lonesome little self.

The COMMUNITY did NOTHING.

you clearly did not even read my post before throwing your ignorant opinion around.

Never underestimate the power of stupid in large numbers.

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.

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.

I still can't believe people are trying to claim that the players who are outraged about this are the ones who are bringing all the attention to The Wis, when who originally encouraged players to harass him?

(Makes Zero contextual sense here)

Also: ITT - Terminal Insanity now worries about some internet spaceship pilots "dignity".

And particularly dense small numbers, apparently.

2 wrongs, don't make a right

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.

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)

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.

........that doesnt give you the right to make more wrongs by deliberately straining CCP's business relationships in order to serve your own goals.

I am not affected by any of those things, just like a lot of the people who are posting about this.

Speculate all you want about the people who are pissed off about this, but this bad attempt at profiling doesn't change anything. Something must be done to reprimand him and everyone who would do something like what the mittani did.

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.

Eve's playerbase has always been rowdy and the metagame is vast and terrifying.

Mittani made one stupid comment in fit of drunkenness, which he has since apologized for. Other people who could not possibly care less about whether the kid lives or dies have intentionally turned this into a political football to further their own agenda. You tell me whose conduct is more shameful.

The same people responsible for driving this non-issue along would burn down CCP headquarters if it meant Mittens would get removed from the CSM or the game, and then unironically blame him for it.