This game seems more interesting to hear about than to actually play

So he's like the Littlefinger of Eve.

*_That's_* The Mittani? Huh. Thought he'd have a better suit.

I've said it before, but Eve is the most fascinating game that I will never play lol. It's amazing what the game has become and the approach the developer has taken toward the game, and I find it a lot of fun to keep up with the major events in the game, but there's just way too much going on in this game for me to want to invest myself in it.

His empire will fall when he finds a girlfriend

We do love our castles of sand.

i would of kept my RL idenity a secret just to add to the fun of the game

There are colder, more ruthless, and more calculating individuals than him in Eve. He has simply made himself the most obvious.

Oh look, EVE just got 8 million players. Oh look, EVE just lost 8 million players.

The funny thing is, the Mittani is probably one of the most skilled players in Eve despite not actually playing a lot. It's because he's managed to be able to win fights without actually winning. He might be wierd, quirky, and a bit crazy - but there's no denying he's got an amazing knack for being a space dictator.

Gaming's most ruthless tyrant... do you mean Electronic Arts?

The Mittani reminds me of the Illusive Man...

“It’s hard to cause a war” *war happens because of anime*

Also the mattani strategy of making the war unfun for your opponent is exactly what won him the fountain War. His methods are brutal but extremely efficient, the guy knows exactly what he's doing.

"we built the game to do exactly what he's doing"... "and when that no longer works in his favor we change the game for him"

I think I'm interested in eve now

Does anybody else think of Handsome jack from borderlands at least a little bit when they see and hear this guy? anybody?

This is actually kinda fascinating. You don't see stuff like that in a online game or any online games really.

white space kim jung un

that is a huggable guy. Fist bump bro. Fist bump.

"In rust we trust" - every minmatar ever

"internet spaceship historian" - where do I get my degree in this?

this game allows players to betray thousands of people.

1:06 "Functioning" is a very strong word

The Mitanni bullied a suicidally depressed player by telling him to kill himself. Stop treating the guy like he's a celbrity.

Sooooo he's just some nerd with a power complex?

Thanks for the video game journalism. That was fun to watch. I hope to see more pieces like it.

to be honest EvEs politics seems more interesting than real life

A warlord in a game, nobody in real life.

one of the best things to come out of IGN ever, what a genuinely interesting news story about gaming. Please keep doing stuff like this!

Given the blurring of fiction/real life that exists in EVE, i wouldnt be surprised if someone just took a war in universe to its logical extension and offs this guy in RL. War= won.

IGN stop giving AAA games high ratings for money

Alex is that kind of guy that is only tough online or at an convention. You have to be pretty insecure to pick on the depressed. Not to mention my grandmother can grow a better beard than that.

I thought it was EA

So he is EVE'S version of the Shadow Broker? Nice

He is a bit like "Im the Mettani and you are not" kind of attittude is he not? Bit douchy.

i'm thinking of starting to play this game just to overthrow this fool.

4:08 - so the guy who controls everyone seems to be married - has a ring on his wedding ring finger. And the guys who work for him seem to be in their mom's basements.. Seems legit and expected.

Goodbye girlfriend, Hello Eve!

At the end he hedges so hard "I'm only pretending to be a sociopath"

"Gaming's most ruthless tyrant" MMO Grinding.

I was expecting an interview with an EA executive.

Imagine explaining to a girl that you look up to this guy

and he did log on at least once, I had him on my watch list and one day, around two years ago I think (shortly after the Mittanni Affair anyway), he was on-line. So I went to my locator agent and found he was way up in the north of Caldari space in a high sec system, and I was down way south of Gallente space; too many jumps for me to get there to slag him out in local over the Mittani Affair.

In any society, whether it's real or a digital one, it seems like the makeup of an evil leader is almost exactly the same

Really great piece by IGN, I'd love to see more like this.

Oh, I didn't know until over 4 minutes in this guy is the leader of Goonswarm. Nobody cares about Goonswarm. They're just a mass zerg corp that rarely does anything other than run around doing mass uncoordinated PvP. I haven't played the game in years and I know that. Goonswarm is hated by most people not because they control things or are the biggest corporation or whatever. People hate them because they are anti fun and that is their only interest, on top of them being the most toxic group of people anyone can ever meet. As he said, their goal is to make every experience as unpleasant as possible. And that's not just for big corporation wars. Goonswarm is most known for their creation of such events as going around places that are supposed to be safe for players, and working together to kill people and destroy ships that they have absolutely no quarrel with simply becasue they find ruining people's experiences fun. It's called Hulkageddon, and they do it because they're basically the Death Eaters of the game. Just like how in Harry Potter Voldemort and his army were like "FILTHY DISGUSTING HALF BLOODS" Goonswarm is the exact same way, except they go "FILTHY DISGUSTING CAREBEARS" because they simply cannot STAND the thought of people playing the game any way other than how they want it to be played.

Now all I can think about is getting the game, composing a brilliant speech to which provokes a revolution against the Mittani

This guy needs to chronicle his Ingame History!

So... let me get this straight: That creep encouraged thousands of people to harass another human being with the goal of that human being killing himself and the creep is NOT in prison? I'm pretty sure what he did is extremely illegal, but okay.

This was really interesting. Thanks for producing this.

This guy sounds like a legend, not to mention a brilliant strategist.

The developer is such a legend. Full player control!

Lol, I've read that most sociopaths are, on average, less intelligent than your average human overall, but they're experts at manipulation and disguising this fact. I get the impression this guy is instead both a sociopath and very intelligent. I'm just glad he has a video game to serve as his outlet haha

I love this game so much. I hope it's still here when I retire

So many neckbeards...

When i saw the thumbnail of this vid I'm like.. Its that the Algos, Gallente Destroyer... Ahh... haven't heard IGN talk about Eve Online before...

I was sad seeing a clip of Dust514 in there. 😥

It’s on 999k views so i think I’m spending the rest of my day rewatching this despite myself

As soon as I saw the title, I knew exactly who it was going to be..

Internet Spaceship Historian? Really?

I feel like He’s the type of dude who thinks being the “Mettani” is a personality

"can't always expect your enemy to be honorable"- mittens then proceeds to drop a supercap fleet on 2 dreadnoughts, a fax, and a 40man muninn fleet.

Learned some good tips in this video. Now, I guess I should read on the Art of War. Then buy Eve if I'm not too late.

An internet.....spaceship.....historian?

:D :D :D "goonswarm is lead by a madman"- leader of the said alliance, 2013

I like him already. He knows his stuff and does what he can do best to ensure victory.

“The best way to avoid a war you don’t want is to have your enemies afraid to come after you in any way.” 👌🏽

If he publicly made fun of me like he did with that guy i'd sue him for all he has. "if you tell someone to kill themselves it’s considered encouraging suicide and you can get a fine of $25,000 and 10+ years in prison. if they actually commit you can be charged with manslaughter."

Damn.... I thought I was a nerd. These guys are the whole next level. You guys should get out a little more.

Used to roll with Atlas once upon a time did they ever fix the lag issues with big battles?

He definitely got picked on in school. But at least he found a world where he is relevant.

I'm now glad I don't play this game.

This sounds like some classic bad guy takeover story, like the Sith or the Hydra. I wonder if there will be a protagonist to this story anytime soon...

He recommended people dox this poor person. He got away virtually scot free too. What a horrible human being.

I had a tenant who loved to play this game. He would spend every free hour after work in his room just playing eve on his supercomputer setup. He would always tell me about this crazy stuff going on in the game, and it was honestly pretty fascinating. I'm not an mmo player, but he convinced me to look into getting the game. Then I watched a few gameplay videos lol.

And still I don´t like the way you have to fly and control your ship... But it is amazing what EVE turned into since its Beta :D ! Happy gaming!

Wait so is there like a resistance that's fighting against him and trying to take him down?

Eve provides so many differing styles of play. I enjoyed playing as an explorer seeking treasure in null space or wormholes. I just don't have time for the game any longer.

i am nothing like this guy, way too much of a kind guy to run an empire.

Hilmar's right. Eve is supposed to be played that way, and that's why I love this game. You can become anything you want, given you have enough patience, and monies.

Haha the mittens barely controls his own pod let alone vast empires of space

THE GREAT MITTANI - a literal madman ... hopefully that suicidal guy has found peace and realizes that , in a way , the great mittani is also seeking happiness through an alternative method (other than just being “normal”). Know that when the mittani spills insults , he’s really just begging for attention, for anyone to accept him even though his fake personality was created for nothing but attention and to appease his own roller coaster of emotions !

I like eve, but after the tutorial I lost my ibis and can't quite figure out what I'm supposed to do and why my frigate has no weapon slots (or I just can't find them.)

I just wanna hear him say "Execute order 66"

Truth is, EvE is a strange, kind off pisses me off thing... It has the freedom I want, do anything anywhere & good pop, but where is the game... I mean I hear spreadsheet sim and MS Office in space & I find it is true... I am really hopping Star Citizen is a fun version of eve...

Eve online is the only mmorpg where you cannot be called a loser for playing it all the time.

He looks like Moriarty from sherlock, and by what you guys said, freaking suits him very well

Very good misdirection Mr. Mittani

... his portret looks like him 40 years into the future..... EVERYONE WATCH OUT WHEN SPACE BECOMES COMMERCIAL #newoverlord irl

"Internet Spaceship Historian" I lol'ed

Waiting for a good documentary about this

I wonder if he ever had played the game called "Real Life"

EVE is an experience you never forget if you spent some time in it, which is quite cool in the grand schemes of things in life.

I believe one of his associates bought a character from me on the Eve auctions. Best bit of money I ever made.

Oh, the he is the leader of goonsquad. That pretty much explains all you need to know about it if you know even the slightest bit about the lore that happened in the game or Fountain War if nothing else.

thought this was about EA and their microtransactions

"internet spaceship historian" I lolled so hard on this.. really people? really?

In a year, when I become an actuary, this will be a fine side proyect.

I gave this game about 7 years when knowledge was given only by time, I fully mastered the Minmatar branch and all modules for armor on 6 accounts, they released a patch that removes all bonuses for armor from minmatar, and released INJECTOR EXTRACTOR. It turns out that everything that I was striving for so much is available to new players in a week (versus 7 years). Technical support (CCP) did not decide what was happening. How do you like it?