imagine you sit down with your co-worker over a nice meal of canned cheeseburgers (as one naturally does), when your co-worker excitedly reveals to you this fun new game he found: EVE Online.
He asks if you have played it before - and what your character’s name is!
What do you do -
Do you reveal your powerlevel?
Do you excuse yourself to the bathroom?
Do you look for the nearest weapon to defend yourself?
Do you just say “no”?
Answer it all, if you please! These are CERTAINLY the questions of our time.
Like @Analoreke_Brunette said, there is no vote option for me, I will tell you a story instead.
Back in the 90’s, I held some in house IT contracts for major companies; Dow Chemical, General Motors, United Technologies, Ameritech which later in 2002 went defunct and was swallowed up by SBC. ALL of these companies had huge security issues with employees. I felt pretty secure at Dow, but every year a contractor died a most gruesome death. The first year a contractor fell and was crushed, it took him almost a week to die from his injuries. The year I left Dow a contractor was melted by a chemical pipe burst. General Motors I found employees putting their user IDs and password on a sticky. The sticky was posted to the PC or monitor. While I was at Ameritech I was working on their small business division database. I was amidst the sea of office cubicles with telemarketers talking to clients. A fire alarm went off and I jumped up, but to my dismay no one else was moving. I asked the girl, who wasn’t talking on her headset, why no one was leaving? She replied, “Oh they will announce it, if this is a real fire.”. I left down 3 flights of stairs and took a 15 minute break outside the building. I almost got ran over in the United Technologies warehouse by a forklift truck, later I was told he was drinking on the job.
This is just a game, I am very sharing on games. But this is asking me about co-workers and colleagues. If this was security work related, then no. But this is just a game. I have shared with people who do know me in real life ( IRL ), such as friends and family. I might share it, if I still worked in the field, but that would greatly depend on their disposition. I don’t trust everyone I meet, you need build trust.
But I probably would have fun talking with them about the game and if they play more often I don’t see why I wouldn’t share my character’s name. I would be surprised though to find someone who also plays EVE, because I never encountered anyone who did when hobbies are mentioned.
I worked in the trades about ten years ago, and was pouring concrete at a railroad crossing and the ready-mix driver casually dropped he couldn’t wait to get home to ‘get some EVE time in’
Since I’m a proud Minmatar Capsuleer I’d definitely tell them my name, even offer to help them learn the basics of surviving in New Eden…
I’ve only met one person in the work place who has heard of Eve Online… Much to my dismay, he stated the usual propaganda that Eve was full of grief players and despite my assurances to the contrary, he wasn’t interested in trying the game.
Yes. I tell people all about myself, because I am narcissistic and proud of it. My husband told me to stop posting a lot “personal” information about myself on Facebook. Facebook is social media and this is social gaming community. I have some people who are like, “Aren’t you afraid those online weirdos will hunt you down and kill you in your sleep?”. Nah, I am not worried, I am an online internet weirdo and I never bother tracking people down. People are too paranoid these days. Back in my childhood, if the neighborhood kids broke a window playing baseball, the property damage would get repaired and the neighbors would be all good and decent about it. Today when that happens, the person with the broken window calls 911 and gets the cops out. They treat the kids like street thugs who intended to do harm to the home owner. Depending on the police, might get a record for malicious vandalism.
I am retired. I do not bother to go to a senior center. To depressing. the either talk about their latest surgery, compare notes on doctors, or their grandkids. WTAF. Talk about anything else and it gets about five minutes. Then back to one of the three above topics.
I do not even bother to broach the subject of online games. Let alone Eve. My generation goes one of two ways. Either embrace the tech of today or is a complete Luddite. The old dinosaurs at the senior center are the latter. Slowing letting the dementia creep on them as they rehash the same topics continuously. SMH
Had a kid at work wanting to get into Eve and gaming asking me if he could play it with me, but due to the nature of the game I was like hell no!! In my field itd be a conflict of interest to spread the Eve germs!!
I do tell people I play Eve though and they all think Im weird as most of them have never heard of Eve nor are gamers.
