NortherWolf said:
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I'm still 50/50 on that. Then again, I remember what happened when Yathzee bashed EvE in his review. So you might well just be one of a group of posters.
I couldn't care less about what Yathzee's review said, it's his opinion and he's welcome to it.
Ah, okay. Sensible points
I hope)
Someone who's the public face of EvE Online should not resort to being a giant douche in public.
Said person should not, when another player on the official EvE forums calls him out on it reply with "~deal with it"
TBH, I think for many eve players, the fanfest remains something that's created solely for the consumption of eve players, even though the live broadcast opens the event up to people who wouldn't understand the context of events that occur there. The alliance panel literally is about drunken alliance leaders making lul-presentations to a drunken crowd.
on the "deal with it" comment, mittani's explanation is that he was not aware of what had transpired since he was still in Iceland, and that he simply thought it was just reactions to his presentation slides, so he responded with a typical comment. Whether that is to be believed at face value is up to everyone to decide for themselves. Me personally think mittani is too stupid to have said something like that if he knew just what was happening, /shrug.
Taunting someone suicidal should not be acceptable, the old BS that you don't want to commit suicide if you mention it has been proven false, so it really isn't a laughing matter.
agreed, but then you have to take into context the amount of tear/rage/hate mails that are sent by people every day in eve. If everyone of those were to be taken at face value, I dunno how many police reports people would've had to file over internet spaceship threats. Also, the ganked miner had 22 or 23 accounts, which probably led to the assumption that he was probably a bot runner/rmt, which further invites ridicule.
still, what mittani said did cross the line, and I'm not defending that, all I'm trying to do here is to provide some context.
The fans of the game should not rally behind the bully, but rather point out that "Hey, you represent us. We're not giant assholes. Stop being one!". If they fail that, then it is only logical to assume that said spokesperson really is the face and voice of the community.
people will form their opinions based on what they've seen and read and from their own perspective. Some have accepted mittani's apology and decided that was enough, others think he should still go. Also keep in mind that the political meta-game in eve never stops, and frankly there are no short supply of people in eve who would love to see mittani gone at any cost.
case in point:
4Chan is also a site dedicated to the fact you can be an anonymous freaky little bugger. WHat they do is so often wrong it's not even funny. But they hide behind the guise of the Internet.
Mr Mittani, mittens or whatever he wants to be called...Don't. He spoke out in public.
and that more than anything else is the crux of this whole debacle, he should've been smarter about what to say in public, even if it's at an event for eve players.