I mean, where do you start with this shit. Freedom of speech? Are you fucking serious? Freedom of speech does NOT mean your ability to name yourself "JEWNIGGERR KILLER" in an online game, around other, paying, customers, who can be of many different ages/races/tolerances for your complete and utter stupidity. Why should they have to put up with that shit because you feel it's your fucking right for some fucking reason to expose them to whatever stupidity you can drum up in your socially rejected little brain. In a game someone else owns, and thusly they make the rules for. In the faces of other paying customers who aren't interested in your stupid adolescent need to bend the rules as far as you can before someone smacks you in the face for being a retard.

Freedom of speech is meant for people who actually have something to say, with, at the very least, some minor point - not as an excuse to be a fucking mongoloid and act like as much of an ignorant child as much as you possibly can.

Trust me, it isn't a "shot on the mouth from THE MAN". Don't be so vain. They don't care about you. You're not special, no matter what your mommy has been telling you your whole life. It's so much less about "the man" keeping your righteous fight down, and so much more about the people who are trying to run a fucking game and a fucking service just trying to avoid your stupid, immature, annoying, ignorant ass wasting the time of their paid employees and either pissing off their paying customers, or even driving them away. They just want you to shut the fuck up, because what you do is stupid as shit and annoys other people. Period. You serve no purpose. So shut the fuck up and don't piss around with my other customers, dickhead.

You think you'd run a business any differently?

Don't get me wrong. PKing, stealing, whatever. It's all got its place in a MMORPG. For damn sure. But where does the person naming himself "IEATURBABIESVAGINALOLOL" get off, besides in his pants when he comes to the conclusion of his lifelong quest to be stupid as hell by naming his character that and running around seeing how long it takes him to get banned by calling people niggers.

You see a lot of this crap running a game. And really, it has no valid place. If you're that stupid and immature, you don't need to expose others to it. And either way, whether you wouldn't pull this kind of shit in real life because you'd get your ass beat by all of the people who simply wouldn't put up with your shit, or would do it in real life because you're THAT much of a shitstain, people coming into an online game to enjoy themselves, especially if they're paying to do so, really don't need to put up with it.

Really, there's freedom contributing to the reality of the online fantasy world, and then there are stupid kids (or adults who, let's face it, should probably just get shot) who are there to get their little, immature rocks off on pissing people off and even making them quit.

There's just a difference. And if you even want to start about how there isn't, let me give you fair warning in advance - you, sir, are fucking wrong.

There's a difference between PKs, being able TO PK, and PKing and dry looting newbs all day while simultaneously emoting *AHHA FUCK YOU FAGGOT NEWBIE I FUCKED YOUR DEAD NIGGER COUSIN*.

Do I understand why a guild was banned for emoting assrape over corpses? Well, yeah. Of course I understand that, now. Granted, I don't agree with the action that was taken, but when you realize that it was taken by a company who had less interest in the freedom of players to be douchebags (obviously, very little interest, but that's beside the point) and much more interest in the people who were emailing in and complaining about being "assraped" while trying to teach their twelve year old daughter how to make a tailor.

Funny? Sure, very funny. To the people doing it. And the people like them checking out some screen shots.

But that's the point. These people are the most ignorant, selfish people you can come across. It's quite funny that a father was sitting with his twelve year old daughter trying to teach her the game when that happened.

But it's never about other people. That's understood, that's how shit works sometimes.

Of course, maybe it's time to grow up.

Interestingly enough, I was in a particularly poor mood watching that newbie get scammed. After the newbie cried for a while and left, I decided to pop out and say something to the effect of "Now, was it really worth 42 ingots to spend a half hour scamming a newbie and making him hate a great game, and probably quit playing it because you wanted to be a cockholster?". Hell, I even went on to explain how he's totally free to scam as much as he pleases.

But, pretty quickly, and I mean even before I got my second sentence out, our scammy friend was offering to return the newbie's items, which certainly wasn't what I asked for or even hinted towards, but shows to me what pussies these people can end up being in real life, or when simply confronted by a little bit of retard slap.

Probably time to stop getting off on internet anonymity so much, because you know damn well had you tipped over his shopping cart and yelled assrape at his daughter in real life, that father would have stomped your fucking teeth into your throat and had you coughing up bloody chicklets for the next four months solid.

I realize what's going on, how it's going on, and why it's going on on many different levels. People are scamming and PKing and doing whatever they can at record levels because of the crowd we attract, with a higher percentage of these players than normal. It's going on because we've got a game and a set of people running it who really do believe in the value of freedom in an online world. But why the fuck is it so ferocious? There are, and I mean a LOT of, people who literally play for no other reason than to kill newbies and do their best to make other people quit or have a terrible time in such a great game.

Really, it's because of two things stemming from the same problem. For one, you've got the old timers who used to have their freedom but have had it snatched away from them, and they've been tied down for years. Now they're chomping at the bit to kill some newbie ass.

But the bigger problem is the kids who NEVER got to experience the freedom, or only experienced it when they were newbies themselves, and now they either want their turn, which, of course, being kiddies, includes very little respect or honour, or lack that respect and honour simply because they were never there to experience it and foam at the mouth for their "Holy Christ I can act like an ignorant little cockslut all I like and nobody can pound my skinny and/or fat ass" time every day.

Just remember, the people who quit this shard and go back to playing EQ get bad impressions of real MMORPGs, and fuel the desire for more EQ clones in the future. Whether you want to think so or not, this shard IS a small part of the front line in the battle for a comeback of real MMORPGs. Disprespecting that, and playing your cards incorrectly in relation to that by being a little ignorant self centered immature retard and making people quit to go back to a safer game, makes YOU a HUGE part of the reason every game looks and feels exactly like EverQuest right now, and why they probably always will.

- Azaroth

Lately it seems several people have been getting a bit of a snort and a chortle at what's been "going on" with IPY, and at what Nighthawk described in his post.

We're learning there's a lot more to running a game than what we thought. Okay, sure. Absolutely, and I'm proud to have learned what I have.

But, some people would ride around on a rather tall horse assuming that we've learned that all the bitching we've ever done was unfounded, or assume that since we're not pleasing all of the players all of the time we've failed at our original mission statement.

That couldn't be further from the truth.

The original intent wasn't to make all of the players happy all of the time, and it wasn't to show anyone how to do customer service. Shit, I'd be the first guy to tell you that, I, personally, will be winning no customer service awards in the near future. We've got some really great counselors, and we do what we can, but beyond that - you're not going to like, me, personally any more than you liked anyone at Origin. You got killed and you want your gold back? Well, no. You're not getting it back. Even if I could prove you had the gold in the first place I wouldn't give it back.

Hell, you'll probably like me much less than any OSI employee you've ever met.

I think people forget a lot of times that we're still the same guys we were before we started doing this. Emphasis on myself. If you're a slobbering mongoloid on the messageboard, I'm probably going to tell you so. I'm free to do that. I'm not getting paid to be a doormat for you. If you're an idiot, I'm not going to smile, nod, and stroke you a little for your ten bucks a month. You're not giving me ten bucks a month, and even if you were, there'd be no way I'd let you think that it entitles you to be a moron anywhere in my presence or the presence of my staff. Yes some people donate, but you'll also notice that any time someone brings up that fact while they're being an idiot, they're told to take their ten bucks and cram it neatly into their arsehole. We are indeed quite grateful to those who decide to donate, but never once has a donation been a free ticket to anything on IPY except the satisfaction of knowing you're helping us give you guys a game to play. As an added bonus, you get that great "I'm doing a service to freeloaders everywhere" feeling.

But, of course, the point of this post is to kick into the nuts of those who would jump quickly to acheiving a superior little smirk on their face when reading Nighthawk's post and thinking, or posting, shit like this: Just a little bit.

"In the end, some people are going to hate every decision you make and some are going to love it. It genuinely is hard to make a game changing policy change that you know a vast majority is going to hate even though you fully believe it is best for the game. "

From wtfman.com

In other news, the staff at EA has been overcome by fits of laughter...