Re: Recently my son, Jack, committed suicide after loosing the account he worked on for about two years on Eve-online.
- From: john.dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Lewis)
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:24:10 GMT
On 24 Apr 2006 20:44:27 -0700, "Eve Player" <ultimangel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Troll ? So what... the message does contain some points worthy of a
reply, considering the potentially-addictive nature of on-line
games...
Recently my son, Jack, committed suicide after loosing the account he
worked on for about two years on Eve-online.
We played Eve as a family, my son and my daughter and I.
The wife gave up and moved out years before, of course............
We had three
accounts but we operated them all together on the same network. Often
I'd have to kick my daughter off as she liked playing my main so much,
as he had about 35 million skill points. My son's account had 32
million skill points. Together we had about 20 billion in assets.
Oh, goody, and you still notice that the sun rises in the East and set
in the West, that the birds still sing in the trees, and that rain
still falls downwards....
Did your son and daughter have much time for work, friends, school,
homework, outside activities, walking, running, swimming...you know,
a normal healthy life..... And as a father how did you actively
encourage and set an example of such a life while hunched over a
keyboard peering at a screen ?
All three of our accounts were banned.
... blah, blah....
My son was upset by this, but we had no idea how upset he was. Several
weeks ago he took a kitchen knife and cut his own throat with it.
no doubt you were too busy on-line protesting the unfairness of the
account terminations to notice that anything was wrong before you
skidded on the blood on the floor...
I
have been unable to do anything but try and hold my family together all
this time
with baling wire ?
. I feel responsible for it and I've been very upset.
To the extent of closing ALL on-line gaming accounts FOR EVER
both in memory of your son and for the psychological good of your
remaining daughter ? You and your family have been in the grip of an
addiction just as insidious as gambling or drinking. And the remedy
needs to be just as severe as those that are effective in these areas.
Just as with alcohol, some people can play on-line games with the
discipline of knowing that it is just a game and when it is
appropriate to stop and give attention to more important life-matters.
And some cannot......
Why am I baring my soul like this? Why am I telling people like this
about our loss?
I think the way we were treated by Eve-online and the GM's was mean
spirited. We were guilty until proven innocent, but no opportunity was
given to prove our innocense.These accounts meant a great deal to all
of us, but it had become a way of life for my son. Playing Eve was
about all he did, and I realize now that it was unhealthy, but I also
spent a huge amount of my life building those accounts.
Ah, yes.. the victim-mentality.
This is
something I won't get over soon. The loss of my son puts it all in
perspective. The game means nothing to me now. I hope CCP and
Eve-online all go to hell for the way they treated my family.
I am hoping that in the future, perhaps, customers of these games will
be given more rights only because we put so much blood, sweat and tears
into these accounts that it is just cruel to ban people outright
without so much as an explanation.
A little late for your son, but no problem for you and your daughter
to immediately seek psychiatric evaluation and addiction counselling.
John Lewis
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