I find it outrageous that ccp is just acting like mittens, xen and goons were a recent problem.They have been a problem for more than 15 years. I have been in and out of eve online since 2004 on a few different accounts. This is just the account of my most recent character, having returned to Eve after more than 5 years away.
More than 15 years ago I and others reported it that mittens and goon swarm leaders ddosed, doxxed and harassed me and others, in and outside of the game. mittens, so upset and angry during their war with BoB, band of brothers, and that i podded his char at the time on my old main account, literally doxxed me. Not only that, at the time I was in recovery from injuries sustained in combat in Iraq at the time. Mittens literally called the military base I was on and fabricated a story accusing me of wanting to shoot people on the base. He LITERALLY tried to get me thrown in the brig. All because I podded him.
More than 12 years ago, I and others reported that mittens, and other goons attacked an FC in Circle of Two, Co2, outside of the game. They LITERALLY, tunneled and backdoored his computer, found the nude pictures of his wife, and having her employment information that was on the computer, sent them to her work place, a small hospital in rural Australia. She was fired and had to get a replacement job as a substitute teacher. The wife, of a former player, had her personal, private photos leaked to her employment to get her fired because her husband played eve and fought with mittens. He has not played an online game since. This was more than a decade ago.
More than 10 years ago, I and others reported that we were getting death threats and non stop spamming in chat channels threatening us, our spouses, our children because “the imperium is the only one important in eve”.
More than 5 years ago, during World War Bee, I was harassed so badly that not only did I leave the game, I had a mental breakdown. people contacted my former partner, they contacted my place of employment, her place of employment, her parents, her family members, my family members, endlessly with messages like “the mittani sends his regards”. These people did not give a flying fornication what the CCP rules, terms of service and eula said.
Even on my current character I’ve reported hate speech and harmful rhetoric being spewed by members of the community. At times, I have had heated arguments against these individuals because I don’t tolerate bigotry or harassment of any kind. Sometimes I have mistakenly gone overboard with my own speech due to the sheer audacity of some of the things that have been said and for that I apologize, because losing control of your emotions, even for a good reason, is not helpful. I try to keep calm, block the individuals and move on and not engage with them further.
Look, I get it. CCP cannot control everything players say and do in and out of the game, however, even when being presented with evidence via screen shots, recordings, videos and more, not enough has been done. I have been here since 2004 off and on, that’s almost 18 years of gameplay and use of the eve online platform and NEVER have i attempted to do what the imperium/goon swarm/bee’s whatever you want to call them, have done.
Never have I ever said or done anything as egregious as the things that have happened in this community at times. I believe that many of the players that are just claiming to be portraying a “bad character” are actually just playing how they are in real life. There are a lot of toxic players in the community, and in online gaming, i think thats probably a common occurrence. However, i do not understand what it is about eve that creates all these tyrants like goons, or horde or whoever.
