• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Wow, I hadn’t even heard of that particular story of Thor being an egotistical asshat.

    I’d been looking into the WoW debacle, then stumbled into other stuff, but nope, that one’s new to me.

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      2 days ago

      I was in his corp (my old one merged with his, I had no idea who he was for quite a while), and this… isn’t exactly accurate. First, from what I remember, he left on okay terms with the corp.

      There was a laundry list of issues with Pochven, a lot of them due to CCP just not bothering to fix issues that the players reported, and moving devs who did want to try and fix some of the issues to different areas of the game. It got to the point where it wasn’t economically viable to live in the area, which reduced how many ships we could field, and the number of people even willing to join.

      CCP also took forever to decide on how wormholes interacted with the region, and changed those interactions frequently. Some of these were great, for instance there was a point where most of the wormholes linked to wormhole systems, and it was a complicated (and dangerous) dance to get people in and out of the region undetected. CCP ended up going with the worst possible interaction: many wormholes directly linked to nullsec space, where massive alliances could easily find them and send massive fleets through with little effort.

      He wasn’t the only one to quit, to be honest I’m surprised he stayed for as long as he did given how he acts now.

      Is Thor an egotistical narcissist? Absolutely. Was this a case of that? Not really

      By the way, this is a statement he put out alongside the other two main groups in Pochven. I can tell you for a fact that 90+% of the players who spent most of their time in Pochven felt this move was absolutely justified*:

      Edit* And the other ~10% disagreed with the destruction of the citadels, not the sentiment of the statement

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      The worst part is that this are far from the only two events. He has been kicked from several other guilds, for exactly the same narcissistic and egoistic behavior. If everywhere you go it smells like shit, at some point you have to start checking your own shoes. He is just always adamant that it’s other people’s fault that it smells like shit, when he has full diaper.

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        Yep.

        There’s the whole… apparently when Thor was essentially high school to post high school age, he managed to cajole a younger SecondLife user, who was actually decently talented at creating like clothes and custom player models…

        So in SecondLife, you can actually make real money that way, you can cash out the SecondLife currency for actual realworld money.

        Yeah SecondLife was actually quite a pioneer in a lot of ways, from a technical and just ‘what even is a video game’ standpoint, lets say uh ‘eccentric’ community and reputation aside.

        And Thor basically convinced this other SL user, who was like 5 years younger than him… that he could make them both more money as a sort of salesman, promoter, of this other persons user made content… if they profit share.

        I may have some details wrong here, but basically… Thor did basically nothing in terms of promotion, yet he made a significant chunk of change off of this other person.

        Because … SL just has basically a universal market you can list things in.

        Like uh, Escape from Tarkov, or FF14’s auction house or what not, fully built into the game… but even more so as it actually allows you to cash out to real world money.

        its not like you’d have to do some kind of technical wizardry to enable sales, its not like Thor whipped up some kind of gray/black market system / payment processor way back when PayPal was still a fairly new idea.

        Alongside that, there were allegations of basically ERP going waaay too far.

        Now, this other person has I think entirely denied any kind of ERP abuse, sexual or just normal relationship abuse, says everything was fine…

        But a good number of people seem to think that the essentially digital labor theft Thor did, basically amounts to its own kind of grooming, exploitation.

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          Don’t call him Thor call him what he is, a loser. Sullying the good name of Norse gods.

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            … As best I can tell…

            He actually, legally changed his first name to Thor.

            And he has gone by Thor for… at least 5 years?.. in his Twitch streaming career.

            I fully agree this is an insult to the old Gods, but … Thor is apparently literally his actual name.

            His older username / online handle was ‘Maldavius Figtree’ or something like that, can’t say I am aware of his actual birth name.