# Players as Content and the Victim Mindset **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** pvp\ **Created:** [August 11, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239 "2022-08-11T05:29:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Ursula\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ursula_anders/32/331878_2.png) [@Ursula\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ursula_Anders)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/203 "2022-08-14T23:36:02Z")
> [@Max\_Deveron](#): > > that is here say… It is. Let me rephrase my exemple. ---
**Author:** ![Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/iceacid_frostpacker/32/505689_2.png) [@Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Iceacid_Frostpacker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/204 "2022-08-14T23:37:07Z")
Would much rather to not draw unwanted attention. ---
**Author:** ![Ursula\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ursula_anders/32/331878_2.png) [@Ursula\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ursula_Anders)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/205 "2022-08-14T23:40:08Z")
> [@Max\_Deveron](#): > > > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > > > One day I hear > > that is here say… There, fixed it… The wording isn’t important, the idea behind the story is. ---
**Author:** ![tutucox\_Khamsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tutucox_khamsi/32/430743_2.png) [@tutucox\_Khamsi](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/tutucox_Khamsi)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/206 "2022-08-14T23:42:58Z")
> [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > The cat in the exemple isn’t mine. ohhh to bad that other cat did nothing wrong IMO ---
**Author:** ![Xuixien](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuixien/32/416896_2.png) [@Xuixien](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuixien)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/207 "2022-08-14T23:48:16Z")
> [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > According to me, when I’m threatened I take it vary seriously. A threat is punishable, same as killing a cat. Okay? I’m not sure what argument you _think_ you’re making. Acts of cruelty and violence are not on the same legal (or moral or ethical) level as “mean words”, even if those mean words are egregious and unlawful. You seem to have trouble maintaining a cogent thread of thought. > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > never mentioned hear-say. You did. > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > To me the question is answered. I’m sorry you don’t like it but there is little I can do about it. CCP is going to do what they seem best for the community regardless of your feelings or opinion. This is what’s known as a “though terminating response”. It’s devoid of substance as no actual points are being made. It basically boils down to “oh well, we can’t do anything about it”. This is the sort of weak kneed and milquetoast attitude that enables sh\*tty policies to be enacted and for those in power to abuse said power unopposed. > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > Let me rephrase my exemple. Tweaking your example because it worked out poorly isn’t going to help you here. You still have yet to address anything in any meaningful way. ---
**Author:** ![Ursula\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ursula_anders/32/331878_2.png) [@Ursula\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ursula_Anders)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/208 "2022-08-14T23:48:26Z")
> [@tutucox\_Khamsi](#): > > that other cat did nothing wrong IMO That would be up to a judge to decide. ---
**Author:** ![Ursula\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ursula_anders/32/331878_2.png) [@Ursula\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ursula_Anders)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/209 "2022-08-15T00:06:13Z")
> [@Xuixien](#): > > Okay? I’m not sure what argument you _think_ you’re making The argument is: should CCP ban players who display threatening and unlawful behavior towards a fellow human being. I said they should be able to and I explained why. You explained your position. We disagree. That’s ok. > [@Xuixien](#): > > You seem to have trouble maintaining a cogent thread of thought. Yes, I’m totally off my rockers and I can barely understand the words I’m writing right now. Nice chatting with you. ---
**Author:** ![Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/iceacid_frostpacker/32/505689_2.png) [@Iceacid\_Frostpacker](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Iceacid_Frostpacker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/210 "2022-08-15T00:11:05Z")
Drones and wrecks are a quick give away, the mindset should be to destroy the wrecks as soon as the Rat is looted and not to use drones while at the same time be aligned to a safespot. ---
**Author:** ![Xuixien](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuixien/32/416896_2.png) [@Xuixien](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuixien)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/211 "2022-08-15T00:17:15Z")
> [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > The argument is: should CCP ban players who display threatening and unlawful behavior towards a fellow human being. That’s not an argument, that’s the position you’re argu_ing_ in favor of. But you have not done a very good job supporting that position. So if I get in a bar fight, completely unrelated to EVE Online in any way shape or form, CCP should have the right to ban me from the game should they find out about it? It’s one thing to ban people who threaten other players or break the law _through official CCP channels_, aka, the game client, official CCP discord services, official CCP endorsed EVE meetups, etc (since, y’know, that’s where CCP has “jurisdiction”). It’s an entirely different matter for CCP to meddle in the activities players engage in outside of CCP’s jurisdiction (at best) and, at worst, to meddle in the _private lives_ of it’s customers. You seem to be arguing in favor of some sort of weird, dystopian surveillance/police state where gaming companies spy on the private lives of customers and sanction them for activities that have nothing to do with the game or the company. > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > You explained your position. > We disagree. > That’s ok. “Agree to disagree” is a fallacy. > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > Yes, I’m totally off my rockers and I can barely understand the words I’m writing right now. > > Nice chatting with you. ✌ ---
**Author:** ![ResonanceOfWar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/resonanceofwar/32/408654_2.png) [@ResonanceOfWar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ResonanceOfWar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/213 "2022-08-15T07:53:03Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > Edit: See the flaggers exactly proven my point. 😉 Flaggers are overly sensitive thou. Not exactly sure how they are surviving the real world if they can’t even handle 2/10 lvl smack talk on a video game forum where everyone is anonymous xD But my thoughts on the subject: Content works both way’s, there shouldn’t be a victim if both are prepared for what they sign up for: (undocking). What transpires from the interaction could swing both way’s and the aggressor themself knows this very well probably as “bait” is a very common thing in this game. And if people roam and they find someone willing to engage then both are neither the victum and hence are both each others content, the best way this game is played imo. Compare that to stalking (ganking/hot dropping) and gate camping which usually stack’s the odd’s in the hunters favour before hand, where that content is very diminished, short lived and lacking in substance/competitiveness/excitement. These players are closer to victum’s but not really as they usually are out in dangerous space taking that risk for that extra reward usually in some type of pve ship to min max their time vs the reward part with no thought/care of the risk. So by the time they finally get ganked they have already payed off that risk with the rewards. If this is not the case and they over-invested were impatient and didn’t start slow then they have that lesson to learn from and at least walk away with something. ---
**Author:** ![Shipwreck\_Jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/shipwreck_jones/32/274382_2.png) [@Shipwreck\_Jones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Shipwreck_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/214 "2022-08-15T08:05:50Z")
I’ve mostly been trying to keep my distance from all this crap. I made one comment in the official dev thread, but it became increasingly clear that it had become a battleground for the culture war. And, I just didn’t want to deal with that, and checked out. Unfortunately, it feels like I can’t escape it. Okay, let me say this to anyone that needs to hear it… The culture war is a means of control. It divides us, and gets us pointing fingers of blame at each other, instead of at the people who designed, maintain, and benefit from the current state of affairs. Sigh. I have said this to people who agreed with me -they agreed that it was a form of control, and that the real people to blame were the people in charge… and yet they still couldn’t stop focusing the stupidest beliefs and worst behaviors of the either side. They still couldn’t stop viewing “the other side” as the enemy. And, I don’t know what to say to stop it. Moreover, there’s a decent chance this post will get flagged for politics. So, I guess I’ll just leave it at that for now. Oh, btw, some of the posting has gotten kind of aggressive. I don’t know who started it, or who’s to blame, and I don’t care. Please try to be civil towards one another. ---
**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/215 "2022-08-15T08:10:44Z")
> [@Shipwreck\_Jones](#): > > I have said this to people who agreed with me -they agreed that it was a form of control, and that the real people to blame were the people in charge… and yet they still couldn’t stop focusing the stupidest beliefs and worst behaviors of the either side. They still couldn’t stop viewing “the other side” as the enemy. And, I don’t know what to say to stop it. This, and hands up I admit to it. So now what do? ---
**Author:** ![Dracvlad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dracvlad/32/444126_2.png) [@Dracvlad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dracvlad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/216 "2022-08-15T08:34:58Z")
> [@Shipwreck\_Jones](#): > > Oh, btw, some of the posting has gotten kind of aggressive. I don’t know who started it, or who’s to blame, and I don’t care. Please try to be civil towards one another. [You were doing it](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/92): ---
**Author:** ![Wadiest\_Yong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wadiest_yong/32/426921_2.png) [@Wadiest\_Yong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wadiest_Yong)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/217 "2022-08-15T09:21:57Z")
> [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > Do I want that person back in my club? No. Let’s continue that line of reasoning. At times where public outrage, staged or not, seems to be the norm rather than an (often non-justifiable) exception, here’s what else may happen. Clay’s butcher refuses to sell him meat, his grocer doesn’t want him in his shop, Clay is barred from the local shopping mall, his baker no longer wants to sell him any products, his employer lays him off because his ethical values no longer match. You see where this is going, don’t you. So Clay’s life is over ? He needs to assume a new identity ? Emigrate ? Or worse ? Casting someone out is about as primitive as public “justice” can get - bar stoning of course. That’s one hell of a way from siding with an alleged victim to becoming an executioner, and something we should all be protected from, even - and perhaps especially - the ones who were found guilty of something and paid their fines/served their sentence. It’s too easy to manipulate. _Cui bono_ ? All it really does is instill fear in a community, and a very long queue for who’s next. ---
**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/218 "2022-08-15T09:31:30Z")
I can follow that clearly enough, but whats the outcome of it here? Im not trying to draw a strawman, Im literally asking; Should everyone be immune from being banned? That seems to be the outcome here. ---
**Author:** ![Wadiest\_Yong](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wadiest_yong/32/426921_2.png) [@Wadiest\_Yong](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wadiest_Yong)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/219 "2022-08-15T09:43:08Z")
No, not at all. The business owner has his own type AND scope of “jurisdiction” as @Xuixien pointed out, in his own domain - namely the product or service he sells - via the EULA/ToS rules. When someone has broken any of those rules to a degree that justifies a ban, the owner has that power. No one contests that. The whole argument that is being developed since a few posts is one where the business owner is being _urged_ by certain other customers to broaden the rules in such a way that what happens in real life AND is unrelated to the product/service being sold, should lead to some form of punishment (banning, permabanning, w/e, and even extending that to other people who are in some way associated with the person e.g. being present at a meeting). @Xuixien argues against that, and so do I. CCP itself can never leave the “confines” of its own product/service, and **certainly not** (be allowed to) become a moral judge/jury/executioner for anything that happens outside of EvE and is unrelated except that it may involve a customer of theirs. I find the discussion very unsettling, especially since the “victim” mindset rears its head with a concealed blade up its sleeve. ---
**Author:** ![Ramona\_McCandless](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ramona_mccandless/32/468438_2.png) [@Ramona\_McCandless](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ramona_McCandless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/220 "2022-08-15T09:46:49Z")
I think I see. Ok, then the only objection I had is one in absurdium so its withdrawn; the sanctions against such an act as I was imagining would preclude access to their EvE account anyway. Yeah ok, Im onboard there. ---
**Author:** ![Ursula\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ursula_anders/32/331878_2.png) [@Ursula\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ursula_Anders)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/221 "2022-08-15T09:54:04Z")
> [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > Let’s continue that line of reasoning. At times where public outrage, staged or not, seems to be the norm rather than an (often non-justifiable) exception, here’s what else may happen. Clay’s butcher refuses to sell him meat, his grocer doesn’t want him in his shop, Clay is barred from the local shopping mall, his baker no longer wants to sell him any products, his employer lays him off because his ethical values no longer match. You see where this is going, don’t you. So Clay’s life is over ? He needs to assume a new identity ? Emigrate ? Or worse ? How many ex-convicts of violent crimes had to assume a new identify, emigrate or move away from their city/town? That would be interesting data for our Convo here. > [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > Casting someone out is about as primitive as public “justice” can get - bar stoning of course Violent are as primitive. The justice system may have its way to deal with people like that but we as individuals aren’t in any obligation to welcome them with open arms once they step out of the jail. > [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > Casting someone out is about as primitive as public “justice” can get - bar stoning of course. That’s one hell of a way from siding with an alleged victim to becoming an executioner, and something we should all be protected from, even - and perhaps especially - the ones who were found guilty of something and paid their fines/served their sentence. Banishment from an entire community is harsh and that’s not my exemple anyway, the club in my exemple represents the game and as owner of such anyone reserves the right to serve. > [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > It’s too easy to manipulate. Many things are manipulated, it wouldn’t be the last thing to be. The worse crooks are the ones who make the rules. > [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > All it really does is instill fear in a community, and a very long queue for who’s next. That’s a bit dramatic. Refusal of entry into a club can hardly be likened to ostracizm and exile. ---
**Author:** ![Qia\_Kare](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/qia_kare/32/279281_2.png) [@Qia\_Kare](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Qia_Kare)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/222 "2022-08-15T09:58:43Z")
I think Shipwreck’s post is fairly civil. It asserts a theory that is his genuine belief and tries to back up that theory with evidence he believes proves that theory. My real issue with the post is mainly that it invites only people who are likely to agree with it to comment or analyze it. It could have invited you, at least, to refute it. People need to be able to express their honestly held beliefs, though, even if those beliefs are critical and especially if those beliefs are wrong. Presenting our ideas so that others have the chance to challenge them helps point out where we have made mistakes or simply enlightens us as to others’ points of view. I think I understand you and what you’re trying to say most of the time. It doesn’t seem logically inconsistent with what I think you believe. It just seems to me you have very specific definitions for terms that differ from how people generally use those terms and that people get hung up on those terms and definitions trying to understand what you mean. Still, when people do misunderstand, you tend to attribute their misunderstanding to malice, immaturity, or as a personal attack and indicate as much clearly in the tone you take even if the person would otherwise have been willing to listen to a clarification and debate you on your actual stance. I can criticise Shipwreck all I want and he says literally nothing worse to me than that he believes I am mistaken or that I’ve made a flawed argument. There’s no implication that because my argument is bad that I am bad also. I consider us on friendly terms, but I would expect him to call me out if he catches me saying some BS, as he should. Honest criticism is not, in my view, an uncivil personal attack. Had I never been criticised, I would not have gained the skills I have gained to defend my positions, nor would I have realized on my own all those times I found was actually in error. People respect a person who is gracious both when they are right and when they are wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ursula\_Anders](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ursula_anders/32/331878_2.png) [@Ursula\_Anders](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ursula_Anders)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239/223 "2022-08-15T10:03:57Z")
> [@Wadiest\_Yong](#): > > The whole argument that is being developed since a few posts is one where the business owner is being _urged_ by certain other customers to broaden the rules in such a way that what happens in real life AND is unrelated to the product/service being sold, should lead to some form of punishment That isn’t the exemple I used and the argument is simply: should a business owner be forced to serve anyone and can he reserve the right to restrict access to anyone based on a misdemeanor or felony. I’m not talking about mob justice and lynching. > [@Ursula\_Anders](#): > > One day I read in the journal that Clay killed his neighbor’s cat after an altercation. Knowing Clay it struck me as extreme so I drove to the jail to speak with him. > He said "yeah, my girlfriend left me and my dog died and all my stuff went up in smoke so I was in a bad mood when Lois, that’s my neighbor, started nafmgging me about the bowl she leaves for cat when he’s out. One thing led to another and I just snapped. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239.md?page=10) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/players-as-content-and-the-victim-mindset/373239.md?page=12)