WTF is wrong with some gamers?
So, I browse the Crime and Punishment forum for EVE Online regularly, and ended up directed to a website about a corp named “The United”.
It seems that they had a falling out with some people in the game (a good number of them) that used to be in their corp, but the most screwed up thing about the whole situation is, they started harassing people at home…
http://thebl3h.com/ and http://www.eve-druid.com/its-just-a-game-you-know/
The gist of is comes down to this: people leave their corp, other people in The United because someone makes fun of them and is disruptive on their corporation’s forums (corporation = collection of players like a guild etc in other games for those of you unfamiliar), people in The United band together to harass people in real life.
What kind of internet loser do you have to be to track people down in the real world and harass and threaten them? I mean seriously, internet spaceships aren’t THAT big of a deal. I guess if you’re so insecure in your own personal life, and hate yourself that much then you really should just kill yourself now and make some room on this over populated planet called Earth we all have to live on.
Part of the problem is the people on the internet (and particularly EVE Online) like to be as big of a douche as possible because they can hide behind their annonimity. 90-99% (completely made up statistic by me 
) of the people that engage in fucking people over in a video game (which is condoned in EVE Online) are too afraid of the consequences in real life of betraying friends, ripping people off and just being a jerk in general. These people I would call cowards, and I do believe that deep down inside, when they make their “mischief” in EVE, there is a part of their personality that they won’t readily acknowledge, that has antisocial-sociopathic tendencies. They claim “it’s only a game” and that’s fine, but when you carry that over into real life, there is a very serious mental and emotional problem going on there.
I personally had a couple run ins with what I believe to be internet gamers that have a screw loose. One incident (a series) were some harassing phone calls/answering machine messages made by an individual living in Florida. I tracked the exchange from the phone number to somewhere in the vicinity of Ft. Lauderdale or something like that, unfortunately, it didn’t match with the nutbag in Canada that decided after 2 years of not having any contact with me that he’d try to go on an internet crusade against me. When he found he couldn’t get to me via the internet, I assume he took it to real life. The first couple of phone calls didn’t block the caller ID, which I found amusing. Subsequent calls did, but it was the same guy. His voice was pretty much as I remembered it to be from using Teamspeak with my old guild in EQ2…but a year and a half later, I decided to look up old girl friends and discovered one of them moved off to Florida, and well last I heard she was living her white trash, mullet loving dream with one of the guys she cheated on me with waaaaaaay back in the day (like 12 years ago). So that one is still up for debate. I ended up just getting the number changed. I do still lean towards the nutbag from EQ2 simply because a few of my domains didn’t have the privacy options turned on for one reason or another, and I had no contact with my ex in about 5 years. She looked me up one day out of the blue to try to live some soap opera drama – on the internet, supposedly she was scarred from things I supposedly said to her, and almost 10 years later had to talk to me and accuse me of things I have no recollection of because it was “theraputic” for her. This from the same chick that claimed to have had sex with her parent’s dog and she was supposedly a “vampire” (yeah I really know how to pick them huh?) I’ll not release her identity (but I am VERY tempted to, just for the fact that this chick deserves the embarassment). The exchange on the phone number was a cellphone exchange so it is possible for him to still be in Canada and make a call with a Florida exchange, provided he used a friend’s cell (to avoid long distance charges) or somehow obtained a cell number with a Florida exchange.
But back to the harassment being done by United members. Seriously the losers involved need to grow the fuck up and go outside for a change, stop living in your mother’s basement and experience the world outside of the internet. You might actually find that life is a lot different when you have to respect other people or deal with the consequences. I seriously do hope that after getting the police involved with the harassment they got a good scare, although from the Irish/Scottish accent in one of those phone messages, I wouldn’t be surprised if at least one person got off without repercussions (but a large phone bill).
A lot of players claim that real life relationships with people mean nothing in EVE and would readily screw them over in game given the chance. I’ve even seen stories where employees install keyloggers on their boss/friend’s computers to get their EVE account information then log in and steal/delete everything. It’s pretty strange what EVE does to people. The person that stuck up for his real life friend (Vaden Khale – second post at http://thebl3h.com/) in a video game should be commended for staying true to his friend.
People should definitely keep in the back of their mind though when playing EVE and trying to exact some sort of revenge on someone for something done in a video game, when you start breaking laws in the real world for your revenge, you may have to pay very harsh consequences. That includes hacking, theft, harassment etc. You will be paid a visit by your local/federal law enforcement provided the victim is persistent in pursuing you according to the laws of where they live. Video games are video games, but real life is srsbiznz.
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