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Re:Video game execution watched by 325K players by atmosx on Sunday May 10, 2015 @04:51AM (#9519349)
Maybe this is where I disagree and didn't make it clear. I have no problem with banning an account. No one would even notice that this account was banned probably.

What I have problem with is the stance of the admin/dev/supervisor/whatever towards a user who fund and exploited a bug.

Humiliating publicly a game character was never in the context of the game. The character didn't lose a battle, the admin took over the account by force and eliminated the character, then he published the video for other users to see. Imagine if the death sentence in the US was not an electric chair but a Colosseum-like show with lions eating men alive, broadcasted on national TV. They were going to die anyway, so why not make up a show, use the money for ... I don't know, public education/research? :-) - would that make the action appropriate/ethical/understandable?

This is not another virtual death otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it, would we?

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Re:Video game execution watched by 325K players by hueving on Sunday May 10, 2015 @05:41AM (#9519424)
>Imagine if the death sentence in the US was not an electric chair but a Colosseum-like show with lions eating men alive, broadcasted on national TV.

Except this isn't real death. It's a game! The fact that you're having so much difficulty distinguishing between the two is a little worrisome.

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Re:Video game execution watched by 325K players by atmosx on Sunday May 10, 2015 @07:15AM (#9519567)
I'm ready to be held accountable for what I write and say. But under no circumstances am I to held accountable for your poor understanding...
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Re:Video game execution watched by 325K players by A_COMPUTER on Sunday May 10, 2015 @06:33AM (#9519498)
>This is not another virtual death otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it, would we?

We're talking about it now because someone in the media reported it. Sometimes importance is an effect of media reporting rather than a cause.

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Re:Video game execution watched by 325K players by Squarel on Sunday May 10, 2015 @07:00AM (#9519534)
we are talking about this one for the same reason some thefts in eve get media attention and others do not. They decided to send a press release out.

But, it was a nice job equating virtual pixels with real life death. Do you have similar views regarding the fact that I just had to torture an NPC with an electronic prod?

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