Hi, I'm Twizzlespark, director of DOKDO, a Korean corporation in Goonswarm Federation.

Many of you might have heard that players in Goonswarm Federation were issued mass warning by simply saying "DOKDO Supremacy" in local chat. For those of you who haven't heard the news yet, here is the TMC article on the subject

This phrase has been a battlecry for the corporation DOKDO for over a year, and no different than say, "U S A U S A" being typed in local after successful super hunting by BL. Players who filed petition against this warning got the response that players shall NOT participate in political discussions in game, and doing so is a breach of Terms of service item 2 of EULA 6C.

There are two problems i wish to discuss about this incident.

First is that the statement is not political. Although Dokdo's sovereignty is in territorial dispute much like Taiwan, the phrase "DOKDO Supremacy" can't translate to "DOKDO is our land" in any way. To this, CCP has replied that the context was clear that the motives behind the statements were political, presumably because one member of the fleet actually did make a political claim over the island. However, this is not the case. We won the fight, we said "DOKDO Supremacy" just like any other times we win fights. I believe CCP should've only sent out warning to the person who explicitly discussed sovereignty over the island.

Second is that policy prohibiting political discussions in game is nowhere to be found in the EULA nor the Terms of service. I don't believe CCP should be warning players just because they think it is not right. Every warnings and bans by CCP should be backed up by either EULA or TOS. This makes me believe that CCP allows GMs to punish players by their own judgement.

"So, it's just a warning. It's not a big deal" you might say. Why are Koreans making such a big fuss out of 'slap on the wrist'? Apart from the fact that CCP is going to be working off hunches and guess and using their own judgement to punish players, this is also seen as cultural insensitivity. Koreans see Dokdo as one of the biggest cultural symbol of the nation. Warning players just for mentioning the biggest cultural icon is something that will insult any nation. Would "TAIWAN SUPREMACY", "GAZA STRIP SUPREMACY" or even "USA SUPREMACY" (assuming complaint was filed by a person from anti-US diplomatic policies) be breach of EULA? Is "DOKDO SUPREMACY" really any different? Koreans are upset because GMs didn't take caution and used their own judgement to enforce something that is not stated in EULA when the subject of the discussion is really sensitive

This is perhaps why this started massive uproar in Korean gaming communities, some of them including: DCinside community, This is game news website, Today humor game forums, inven and many more.

We believe CCP should've handled this incident the following way: CCP should've included policies disallowing political discussions in their TOS and EULA and only punished players who explicitly debated the sovereignty of the island, instead of warning everyone who mentioned the island.

All that we asked of CCP is that they apologize to players who were only warned for saying "DOKDO SUPREMACY" (we don't even expect them to do this publically) and the warnings be lifted. However, it is sad to see that CCP would rather upset whole nation's population instead of admitting a simple mistake.

DOKDO SUPREMACY!!