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However, SWG is a game and If I tell someone I'm going to kill them is this acceptable, considering the whole premise of SWG is war?
Yes, as I said the game has a PvP side. You can kill each others characters so threatening to do so is hardly against the rules. OK, the rules say no threatening behaviour but I doubt any CSR would do much about a report whining "This imperial said he'd kill me" at least I hope not, anyway.
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You're taking the people that ranted on this girl as the same as them threatening her in RL only thing is it's not RL.
No, unless they were threatening her personally (rather than her character) it cannot truely be compared to it happening in RL, agreed BUT it still happened to a real person. It was still intended to offend in the most extreme way possible. She was not playing a game that enables you to rip off your opponents clothes and penetrate what ever ******* was currently available so you can't compare it to having someone threaten to kill her character.
When such a complaint comes up in "Rape Meh! - The online game" then I would agree that she should know better than to be playing it.
If they had been threatening her (and not the character) then I see no distinction between it being done on the internet to being a letter, email or phone call. I know that's a lot of ifs and buts, covered next.
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It just seems that you're a little quick to be the judge and jury based on heresay of a friend of a girl who thinks she was mistreated
Yes and I admitted in a couple of posts that my point of view was based around taking the posters word as fact but this thread was never about whether it did or didn't happen, maybe it should have been.
As far as we are aware they still are playing this game, today. I have not contributed in anyway to any punishment against them as they have never been named. If they had been THEN that arguement would hold far more water as there is no proof as to what was said. For all I know, she doesn't exist and neither do they.
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Just a little info on women most exaggerate, are more passionate, and more sensitive than men.
Actually I would say it was about even on Women-Men on the BS/exaggeration front but I totally agree on the other two. Hence I can understand her reaction to it (again, assuming it happened) not to mention that the threat of such a thing happening, IRL, is very real to any woman.
If it happened to my female entertainer they'd be reported and on ignore, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it although it might **** me off a bit that such people find that amusing. If you haven't done, make a female dancer on server and see how things go, you don't need to dance in your underwear or a revealing outfit before some numbnutt starts trying to live out his fantasies and play the game onehanded, with you the object of his affection...It really is quite sad, tbh.
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I can tell you nothing. So women can turn a mans world upside down without any kind of repercussion yet If I look at a good looking women the wrong way or she takes something I say out of context I can be charged and convicted of sexual harassment.
I don't disagree that is how it is. There are other laws that similarly biased and are similarly abused. This incident, though, is purely hypothetical now. We have had no proof of it happening, there is no name to the "victim" and no names to the "accused" so you, me or anyone else here is not actually judging anyone. From what has been said, these "players" are in game and this is likely because the people that did the reporting were no where near to report it. That no one in "earshot" actually did anything (ok, I too have trouble believing that no one would) about it and the "victim" just logged out never to return. If, however, it happened AND the victim used /report then the players in question should no longer be allowed to play this game. Of course the decision is down to SOE but I would be disappointed if they saw it any other way (if only because they don't want people like this costing them more lost subscribtions)
No I am not a business owner but I am a manager in a company and I do have staff working under me. yes I have had to deal with the conduct of some of them, in these sort of matters, before.
Nothings gone so far as to involve the law. Then again I live in the UK so law suits are not the norm.
