When gamers take things too far.

[Deleted member 110222]

Apparently, an employee of EA has been receiving death threats and personal attacks over the loot box system in "Star Wars Battlefront 2".

Frankly, I'm appalled by this. I really hate the game. But I'm not so entitled as to make threats. Sure, moan and whine and call EA money-grabbing scum... But to threaten someone who is probably nothing more than a corporate slave... To threaten his very being? No, this isn't cool.

He's stated that he's keeping a record of all threats. He says he's received seven death threats from gamers. Frankly, if this is all true... I hope the gamers in question are prosecuted. I don't like EA. I think they're terrible. But I simply say this by ensuring that I never feed their children. That's just appropriate commerce.

I can't even... I'm sure that gamers have made death threats in the past... Needless to say this story is blowing up on Google. It's things like this that cause some people to think ill of gamers in general, IMO.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Its not that uncommon. Hello Games got piles of 'em when they announced a two month delay of the release, before they got death threats for the mediocre quality of the game/broken promises. The internet allows idiots to take their to whomever they want, so that means tons of people getting death threats from manchildren. It dont mean much, there are hundred of millions of gamers, so you're bound to end up with thousands upon thousands of scumbags as with any group.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Yeah I saw the tweet earlier. Self entitled, closeted idiots.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Yeah I saw the tweet earlier. Self entitled, closeted idiots.

You'd think with the passion that the threat-makers have, they could make their own game? Or would that require work?

 

[jonluv]

Does anyone ever believe these " death threats"?

 

[StiTch]

There are cretins in all walks of life. The crowd with the biggest proportion of them manage our lives. Telling me there were seven people into games that are unstable kinda doesn't mean much tbh.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Does anyone ever believe these " death threats"?

I suppose for me, it's the principle I'm bothered about. Maybe I'm still naive. I'm only 23. Lots of things to learn yet, admittedly.

 

[jonluv]

I suppose for me, it's the principle I'm bothered about. Maybe I'm still naive. I'm only 23. Lots of things to learn yet, admittedly.

I'm 80 next birthday and have discovered people who threaten very rarely act -- and I would think that perhaps those who would threaten over a plaything may just be children--- but another thing I have learnt is that I can be wrong��

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Does anyone ever believe these " death threats"?

Believe as have they been made? Completely.

Beyond that there's no 'but'. Death treat is death treat.

 

[Cotic]

What about when people have fights? Many times people have said "I'm going to g kill you!" before we got down to it but I never thought it was a literal description of what they intended, which is not to say people should go around threatening people in any manner, especially over computer games.

 

[Komemiute]

When people on the internet can act without fear of retribution or fines- why would they care about being mean and disrespecting?

 

[ChiefRedCloud]

Yes, there does seem to be a lot of feelings of entitlement in the world today and it has bled over into the gaming world. Which is sad. Talk is usually just that. But, not always as we've seen in world news. I believe in standing up for what you believe in but I also believe it should be tempered with thought and understanding.

As for those "corporate slaves" they are hard working individuals just like you and I. I think I understand your inaligy but we all do what we have todo to survive and support ourselves and our families.

Chief

 

[CmdrKull]

There’s some mental illness at work here, surely. Well-adjusted individuals don’t let their emotions boil so close to the surface. Maybe they’re so poorly adjusted that they cannot comprehend how someone might take their words at face value, or how they might be masking that 1-1,000,000 individual who really will take it that far.

What really burns me up is that a fairly good point was made: EA exceeded their greedy reach, and there was backlash. Now half of the conversation is going to be about dangerously unstable self-entitled gamers rather than the more beneficial “don’t be greedy or it’ll bite you in the rear.”

 

[Memnoch]

The EA people really should play their own games if they think that's bad. They should hear the bile that spills out of the mouths of what sound like children. I don't play them myself, wouldm't touch EA stuff for love nor money but I have watched many a video on YT and its pretty appalling. The parents should be ashamed.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Death threats are hilarious.

I had one once for simply being better at Bad Company 2 than someone else. (I wasn't even that good, he was just that bad...!)

I welcome them. Just to torment people.

You just need to figure out where I live. I'll help. It's Shrewsbury, in one of the 40,000~ houses! Clue: it's near the river! (Lol look at Shrewsbury on a map!).
And where I work. I'll tell you. Tesco, but which one? (Clue: it's the big one, but I'm a delivery driver, so I won't be there 90% of the time).

And assume I'll just let you kill me and not fight back. Lol or just run you over.

Oh wait. You don't know what I look like either. Or my name. Have fun!

Ahh, the internet. Such entertainment.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[PhanttoM]

On the EA side of things: I haven't bought/played an EA game since Battlefield 3 - which I only played for 4 hours.

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Well-adjusted individuals don’t let their emotions boil so close to the surface. Maybe they’re so poorly adjusted that they cannot comprehend how someone might take their words at face value, or how they might be masking that 1-1,000,000 individual who really will take it that far.
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I think you hit the right wording there. As someone who has worked in customer support and retail stores, I have frequently seen certain types of people who lack self awareness in how they say things.

Like the kind of customers who get really passive aggressive over small things, like when items are out of stock.
Or like a couple of months ago, when a buff dude with tattoos on his arms and face threatened to shove my head into a wall, because he felt I was provoking him, because I asked him to calm down while I check our storage.
(Which in hindsight was really stupid of me — He was already riled up from talking to my colleague, before I got involved — and people who are riled up don't like being told or asked to do things)


I always wonder how those types of people would sound over the anonymity of the internet.

 

[StiTch]

You'd think with the passion that the threat-makers have, they could make their own game? Or would that require work?

Come on, who wouldn't have their own game if they could? If I had the work capacity and skills to write my own game, I'd be on top of that that like it were a rich model with no standards.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Okay, maybe "corporate slave" wasn't the best term to use. Allow me to explain.

By that, I simply meant that it's pretty unlikely that "Sean", who has received the threats, it's pretty unlikely that he's in a position within the company to decide on the game's pricing. Indeed, he actually claims to not be directly attached to the game at all. It seems he's been attacked simply because he happens to be employed by a certain company.

 

[znôrt]

Come on, who wouldn't have their own game if they could? If I had the work capacity and skills to write my own game, I'd be on top of that that like it were a rich model with no standards.

i would be very surprised if you didn't have them. most likely you just have to stop telling yourself you don't.

('nobody told them it was impossible, so they did it')

 

[StiTch]

i would be very surprised if you didn't have them. most likely you just have to stop telling yourself you don't.

('nobody told them it was impossible, so they did it')

From a technical perspective perhaps so. From a realistic perspective I don't have the coding skills, money nor time. Yes, I could revisit learning coding, but if one man could realistically make a full, awesome game without a team then FD would just be...Braben Development; and every bridge would feature his bobblehead, like it or not.