Local parent stumbles into pedophile-infested game

In my time playing I've had three questionable situations.

One was the aforementioned 'being shaken down for sex' by the Guild boss.

Another was an Arm private who just would not stop Waying me with graphic descriptions of anal sex. Specifically what HE wanted to do to me. I was another male character and within maybe 2 months of playing. Very new. I didn't even know there was a way to OOC stop him. He stopped after about a week. I think he annoyed someone more capable than I was and they offed him.

And the third was when I was in the Arabet and two schmucks just would NOT stop having homosexual mudsex (graphic!) at the main firepit. C'mon, guys. Take it to a tent. I'm trying to roast some tregil here.

Yeaah. How does that even happen? Did they ask for consent?

shakes: "You can imagine where it goes from here."

@qwerty: "He fixes the cable?"

The guy Waying me never asked for consent and I didn't know enough about the game to know it was an issue. I thought it was just a creep. You find them sometimes in the world.

The guys having homosexual mudsex in the public space ... if I was present first and they both showed up they would engage in only petting and kissing. But if I walked into the room and they were already going at it they wouldn't stop and wait long enough for me to clear the area. But there was also an expectation that I WOULD leave the firepit and go hide in a tent if they both showed up and wanted to do their thing.

I felt really awkward about that one. I couldn't think of any way possible to file a complaint that didn't make me out to be a complete homophobe to staff.

Isn't that sort of the problem with consent sometimes? The onus should be on the other people to gain consent for everyone present, but when they aren't polite enough to do that ... it's difficult and socially awkward to demand it.

And sometimes it's awkward to GIVE consent.

In case you don't have a Hazmat suit for reading the comments of the Reddit thread, I picked some choice quotes.

A rules lawyer said:



Someone who's probably on Interpol's most wanted list said:



A veteran of the Pedo War who fought for the Axis claims victimhood:

Her response is symptomatic of a larger issue surrounding the veterans' elitist attitude, and belief that critics of the game are trolls who are simply trying to drag a successful game down. I don't specifically blame her for her post; she simply fell into a larger culture where the veterans of the game can't see what's wrong with it and don't demand any changes to fix it. I lay the blame for her post on that culture. It's fairly natural human behavior for leaders of the pack in any society or subculture to do that. That said, she's certainly responsible for evaluating her own beliefs and trying to understand why she is wrong, instead of just raging at the reviewer.

The reviewer did say that they're going to put in a complaint to GoDaddy's abuse center, so either nothing will ultimately happen or Armageddon will have a different URL in a few weeks.

Epic. Upvoted.

This quote stood out to me.

". . . The difference is that the setting is designed around a desperate world, so while those behaviors you listed are disturbing, they at least exist within the context of the game world. It's an entirely different matter when people pervert the context of the game to fulfill their own pedophilic fantasies."

It's a fact that this happens. I've seen it happen. The only way to fix it is to crack down it, or to raise the ages to 18. I usually opt for the coded solution, since it's the easiest and the best long-term solution. It would be trivial to move all ages up to 18.