Bear in mind that this post is specifically written to protect some parties and friendships I care about while still keeping the integrity and truth of the events that transpired.
Some of you may have seen Spartan Training Ground and the stable at Carnival Island belong to MissWatson under the guise of helping new players and the community, the story presented by that side is not how it transpired.
The 14th of April I spoke with Rawr in order to figure out a personal matter of mine, to see if he had caught Watson in strange lies.
I’ve caught her in one too many lies for me to be comfortable with, one was during this year’s Entropia Lan when she said people from the UK could not use Uber in other countries, in this case Sweden. This is obviously not the case and not how Uber would operate.
Another was during the second Next Island Meetup (NIM) where I helped her set up little big mining log and heard the classical phrase “it didn’t work like this yesterday”. I have worked IT support, this is for some reason a weird and common thing people say, I’m uncertain why.
There was also the time when she claimed paracetamol was safe for hangovers whereas i mentioned that no, don’t use paracetamol for hangovers since both alcohol and paracetamol interferes with the liver, taking paracetamol for a hangover could be dangerous. Watson being adamant that it is perfectly safe.
These are just a few of the examples that have made me feel uneasy.
The day before the incident of the 14:th, Watson had jumped into a voice call where I happened to sit and chat. She took over the conversation bragging that now was the time for her to take over Spartan Training Ground and that it had been bought by her. However I knew this was another lie as I had prior information that this land area was given to her - for free, or as she herself said “I was the only one who thought of it and asked if i could have it”.
This prompted me to speak with Rawr. My intention was to figure out if I should confront Watson in regards to the odd lies so that we could move past it. Clearly a mistake on my end as the only person I should have confronted about this is Watson herself.
However Rawr took this the wrong way and in no less than ten minutes it escalated and turned into “Etrisa is telling everyone and it’s a shit show”.
In their mind they thought I was telling everyone that Watson got the deeds for free.
This was not the case.
I spent the entire day trying to discuss and sort out the misunderstandings with Rawr and now in retrospect it seems to me that he never had the intention of solving this, every step of the way I was deliberately misunderstood and no effort was made to understand what was said by me.
Speaking with Watson resulted in her playing the victim uttering the following:
“I honestly thought taking spartan away from MA would allow us to use it to help keep players on NI and enjoy the planet we love would actually bring some peace to the people affected most that their was hope that parts of NI couldn’t be touched and ruined by MA. Turns out I was just the body to throw under the bus and have a blame game to. I did all this to take power away from MA and you all accusing me of discussing this with them so easily just shows me where I stand to all three of you. So enjoy. You can now all raise a glass and be happy as a group that I’m leaving Entropia. Leaving your lives. Throw parties or whatever couldn’t give a shit. Didn’t realise I was that fucking awful in all your lives.”
The issue from a game perspective is that this is not a fair way to distribute the resources of Entropia, resources in this manner must be won in some form of competition or auction, not handed out to players for free. But the fact that this happened is not one single entity’s fault and some of it falls on Watson and Rawr.
When Watson asked to get the deeds the answer should have been no, but she should not have asked in the first place.
Imagine being asked by a friend to do something both morally and legally dubious.
It shows that the friendship was fake and the skills of Watsons manipulation tactics.
Having the willpower and strength to say no to someone who has made it their specialty to manipulate others for power and greed is extremely hard.
This revealed the true faces of Watson and Rawr.
The news of this spread further and finally it reached MindArk. The person who finally spoke with MindArk did the right thing and I can only commend them for doing so, it is something I myself should have done as soon as I knew but I was regrettably too close and blind to the situation.
Promptly after this several accounts were temporarily banned in order for the investigation to take place and the account holders contacted by MindArk.
Presumably Watsons account was included in this as she was offline for a similar amount of time as other accounts.
Most of it has since been resolved, and some but not all of the involved parties are back in the game.
A few accounts still remain locked as the investigation is ongoing. I can however not speak more on that matter as it is not resolved and outside of the scope of this post.
My friendship with Rawr is gone, as he held zero interest in resolving the situation. The rapid escalation, the twisting of my words and the truth all led to making the issue far bigger than it needed to be. The hostility behind his words from me simply trying to clear things up - all of this makes it evident that he only cared about his own agenda and I get an eerie feeling he is a puppet-master pulling the strings.
My friendship with Watson is gone as her lies finally caught up to her and she’s tangled in her own web, her behavior in the conversations we had regarding this is nothing but disgusting and her failure to own up for her mistake and playing the victim of the situation ultimately showed me what I set out to investigate in the first place, she’s not someone I would like to keep as a friend or associate with and I was right to feel uneasy about her behavior.
As for myself, I have learnt that my word to keep quiet may cause issues with what is fair and right. I should have contacted MindArk as soon as I learned about this. I have to take a thorough look at myself and have the backbone to go against my friends if necessary.
This is a clear case of what causes trust issues between MindArk, the planet partners and the players, something we want to avoid.
However this is not the end as Watson still owns the Stable on Next Island/Carnival Island. These deeds were not given out in a fair manner, they were not put up for auction, they were not won in a competition and Watson manipulated others to get them.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and don’t take the friendships you have for granted, tell a friend they matter to you and have a lovely day.