CCP should take a step forward and protect the users in Dust 514.

If CCP is really concerned about the identity of their player they would actually demonstrate it with in-game changes, such as:

1) Making the PSN ID private (not shown to other players in any form it must include the character sheet/character information).
2) No character name should match the real life name of a player.
3) No character name should match the PSN ID or email account.


For security and privacy concerns.

Hello everyone,

For the last few weeks the community has been debating the topic of real life harassment, and its connection to the EVE Universe. The EVE Universe Community Team has been working on this issue for some time now, and has had extensive discussions about it with your elected representatives, the Council of Stellar Management.

EVE is a virtual world whose inhabitants have more freedom to play the villain and experiment with various backhanded tactics than in any other MMO. The freedom to scam and commit piracy, espionage, and extortion are all fundamental to the EVE Online experience, and CCP will never change that. However, it is important to remember that the EVE universe is a virtual world, and behavior of this nature should remain firmly within that virtual world.

While the content of online interactions between players cannot realistically be gated within our game worlds, CCP strongly disapproves of clear and extraordinary levels of real life harassment against our players in the outside world.

CCP, in collaboration with the CSM, have agreed and would like to state in the strongest possible terms and in accordance with our existing Terms of Service and End User License Agreement, that real life harassment is morally reprehensible, and verifiable examples of such behavior will be met with disciplinary action against game accounts in accordance with our Terms of Service.

Harassment poses a potential problem in any virtual world, and CCP has dealt with cases of this nature for more than a decade. We will continue to monitor and evaluate claims of harassment based on our policies and acceptable standards of behavior.

As always, CCP will not discuss specific cases of policy enforcement. However, if you have any questions regarding this statement, please feel free to pose them in this thread, and we will respond to the best of our ability.

- The EVE Universe Community Team

so then sending someone your toon name and pass in eve to dust and then waiting a week or to then report the toon hacked to get the player IP banned from dust and eve online is fair game ?

just saying this has been used more then ones in eve/dust corps and in eve and dust CCP seems to always IP ban the wrong guy .

just asking then do,s this fall with in RL Harassment in the case player A go,s to player B and gives the account info over to player B just to report player B to you guys he,s a hacker and get his IP banned so player A can get his account back and get rid of player B from the game ! and go on to do the same to other players that player A dont like .

Where I come from, harassment is a serious crime and if found guilty of any form of harassment then you would face several years in prison, a very costly legal bill and an extremely costly compensation payment to the victim.

It can not be emphasized enough that as a community we should be aware of the line between the game and real life and always respect that line when it comes to topics such as harassment and real-life threats.

Dude your gay, go farm isk in PC by not fighting and getting everyone else to not fight, cause they took away your keys to the lock. Whod of thought the guy who doesnt want to fight thinks that the video game nerds are a real life threat.....? Ok CCP has to do some CYA here but lets be real, real life harassment, really?

Harassment is not cool, thats all folks.

It can not be emphasized enough that as a community we should be aware of the line between the game and real life and always respect that line when it comes to topics such as harassment and real-life threats.

This will always be a delicate balance, but you also have to remember. If you evoke real life emotions, you've gone to far. If you've lead people on for months at a time, and screw them over, it may be all part of a game, but you hurt their feelings and let them down.

People devote their time to this game, they want to enjoy their experience. Some people like to be the a**hole, but lying to gain leverage over someone's hard work is wrong; even in New Eden. Real friendships have formed and broke over this 'game'... so what kind of game does that make? Especially a game that kids can play, and people can spend their real money on.

I know people that hate you, Spero. And they've never actually dealt with you, or know what you do as Kain Spero the pirate of New Eden, and as the real life CPM.
If you do something for the community, and you state that you do, it is a reflection as CPM, not an in-game character.So you have to be careful how your present your actions.

Personally, I have no issues with you. In the game, I have none either. On the battlefield, I certainly don't have any issues, I'll just pop your tanks and be on my merry way :)

CCP should take a step forward and protect the users in Dust 514.

If CCP is really concerned about the identity of their player they would actually demonstrate it with in-game changes, such as:

1) Making the PSN ID private (not shown to other players in any form it must include the character sheet/character information).
2) No character name should match the real life name of a player.
3) No character name should match the PSN ID or email account.


For security and privacy concerns.