A while back, Hilen Tukoss, the famous NPC Wormhole researcher, went missing and was found dead by some plucky Capsuleers, who refuse to hand over the body.
So far, cool, no problem.
Then it gets interesting. CONCORD Directive Enforcement Department puts a 40+ PLEX bounty on their heads and threatens to trash their standings with all highsec factions (including setting their sec status -10.0) if they don’t cough up the corpse.
I’m not au fait with the state of in-game roleplaying events in other MMOs but this seems pretty out there.
Serpentine's Eve 
And they turned it over… Why was the DED in strongarm mode?
This, after the early wormhole seeding when a player destroyed the intended story progression rather than have another player get it. This is EVE.
I love the fact that CCP is going down this route. It’s truly awesome, but doesn’t address the issue if the players simply choose not to log in anymore. But it’s exactly what I’d expect, and it’s great.