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[Brotato]

off-topic:

I think death threats should carry the same penalty as actual attempted murder. Seriously. Some kid runs their mouth on the internet? Hunt them down and throw them in jail. The end.

Its a douchy thing to do, but that seems a bit extreme.

This.

If they did that I wouldn't have anybody to beat when I hop online to play

[timferius]

This is the first link I could find, I heard the story the other week:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2349328/Teenager-jail-making-terroristic-threats-Facebook-comment-carrying-school-shooting--despite-adding-lol-jk-joking.html

More on topic:
I'm still cautiously optimistic about this game. I found I burnt out on Terraria pretty quickly, but with the addition of different planet types and npc quests and such, I think this may hold my attention much longer.

[Levi]

I'm still hyped, but I wish they would focus on getting multiplayer in before releasing the beta.    My roommate isn't going to let me play without him, so its going to be torture when everyone else is playing it and I've got to wait.  Haha. 

[miauw62]

We will make sure to give you updates with extra spoilery content in this thread <3

[Levi]

We will make sure to give you updates with extra spoilery content in this thread <3

Noooooo!

Although to be honest I should probably avoid this thread once it comes out.   

[Darkmere]

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Its a douchy thing to do, but that seems a bit extreme.

Why? You can't yell !!FIRE!! in a movie theater. You can't run up to someone on the street and threaten to kill them. The internet is a public place, so what's the difference? There's plenty of cases where things like this DO impact real people in a real way, what makes it okay to do this when you feel anonymous and empowered?

The "father"'s comment in the linked article proves my point. His son was too ignorant to know about consequences? Being 18 makes him legally able to do everything but drink (beer is srs bsns), and yet he's such a man-child that he doesn't understand being publicly abusive is not a great idea? Don't get me started on how parenting let that happen in the first place. No, I have no sympathy for either of them.

[hemmingjay]

No responses from my connection at all since the concern yesterday. I guess he/she is laying low until today's update. From yesterday's update it really looks like the game is 90%+ complete, including much of MP. Really, I would expect that they could submit code to Steam for the early release/alpha access at any point. My understanding is that it take 2-4 days for Steam to approve that submission.

Tomorrow was my best guess for release but I obviously think it makes more sense to announce it a week in advance. Further, I was wrong about Payday 2's beta even though I was talking to the lead dev everyday. You just never know how these things will go and Starbound has already proven to be wildly impulsive in every other respect.

[Virtz]

Spoiler: More OT nonsense (click to show/hide)

Its a douchy thing to do, but that seems a bit extreme.

Why? You can't yell !!FIRE!! in a movie theater. You can't run up to someone on the street and threaten to kill them. The internet is a public place, so what's the difference? There's plenty of cases where things like this DO impact real people in a real way, what makes it okay to do this when you feel anonymous and empowered?

The "father"'s comment in the linked article proves my point. His son was too ignorant to know about consequences? Being 18 makes him legally able to do everything but drink (beer is srs bsns), and yet he's such a man-child that he doesn't understand being publicly abusive is not a great idea? Don't get me started on how parenting let that happen in the first place. No, I have no sympathy for either of them.

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I don't think anyone argued that it shouldn't be punished. Just that it shouldn't be treated the same as actual attempted murder as you said. People say a lot of things, but they do very few of those things.

[Grakelin]

No responses from my connection at all since the concern yesterday. I guess he/she is laying low until today's update. From yesterday's update it really looks like the game is 90%+ complete, including much of MP. Really, I would expect that they could submit code to Steam for the early release/alpha access at any point. My understanding is that it take 2-4 days for Steam to approve that submission.

Tomorrow was my best guess for release but I obviously think it makes more sense to announce it a week in advance. Further, I was wrong about Payday 2's beta even though I was talking to the lead dev everyday. You just never know how these things will go and Starbound has already proven to be wildly impulsive in every other respect.

Maybe they're just onto you leaking the information here, so they feed you falsehoods to keep us on our toes.

[Niveras]

Spoiler: More OT nonsense (click to show/hide)

Its a douchy thing to do, but that seems a bit extreme.

Why? You can't yell !!FIRE!! in a movie theater. You can't run up to someone on the street and threaten to kill them. The internet is a public place, so what's the difference? There's plenty of cases where things like this DO impact real people in a real way, what makes it okay to do this when you feel anonymous and empowered?

The "father"'s comment in the linked article proves my point. His son was too ignorant to know about consequences? Being 18 makes him legally able to do everything but drink (beer is srs bsns), and yet he's such a man-child that he doesn't understand being publicly abusive is not a great idea? Don't get me started on how parenting let that happen in the first place. No, I have no sympathy for either of them.

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I don't think anyone argued that it shouldn't be punished. Just that it shouldn't be treated the same as actual attempted murder as you said. People say a lot of things, but they do very few of those things.

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I don't know about attempted murder, but a lot of online games are trying to take threats like that seriously. It's mostly a problem of investigation/enforcement, though. If you threaten a guy in real life (particularly in the heat of a moment), it's a lot easier to know who you are for the police to have a word with you. Online, it's still possible but it takes more work and the cooperation of the multiple third parties (ISPs and the company running the service on which the threat was made, for example), with all the legal hoops and hassles that entails.

Also, I don't know how much of it is a willing attempt by service providers to try to elevate multiplayer discourse away from the crude chatter we've gotten used to over the past 10, 15 years, as opposed to a company just trying to cover their ass from any legal responsibility they may have.

[Sergius]

Spoiler: More OT nonsense (click to show/hide)

Its a douchy thing to do, but that seems a bit extreme.

Why? You can't yell !!FIRE!! in a movie theater. You can't run up to someone on the street and threaten to kill them. The internet is a public place, so what's the difference? There's plenty of cases where things like this DO impact real people in a real way, what makes it okay to do this when you feel anonymous and empowered?

The "father"'s comment in the linked article proves my point. His son was too ignorant to know about consequences? Being 18 makes him legally able to do everything but drink (beer is srs bsns), and yet he's such a man-child that he doesn't understand being publicly abusive is not a great idea? Don't get me started on how parenting let that happen in the first place. No, I have no sympathy for either of them.

I hope you're joking, because what you just said is a perfect example of what's wrong with society today.
Hope you like that police state you're wishing for.

[Baneling]

Can we please stop using this topic for an argument about the policing or lack thereof of verbal assault made via the internet? Take it to General Discussion or something, rather than talking about a subject almost entirely irrelevant to video games in a topic about a video game in a subforum about video games.

[Maldevious]

Starbound should be fun.

Topic: fixed.

[Sergius]

Hey, what's up with that Starbound thing? It's got stars, it's got bounds...

[umiman]

Seinfeld: "What's with Starbound? Anyone ever think about how weird that word is? Why are we 'bound' for a 'star'? You don't want to go to a star! It's hot! You'll die! You wanna go away from the star that's where you wanna be. What's that game you're playing? Oh it's Stargone."