EVE General Discussion

The victory in this case being the mandate 10,000+ vote margin for The Mittani. But why is this a pyrrhic victory for the goons?

For starters, the Goons have a very particular skillset and modus operandi. They play to grief, to sow the seeds of chaos and destruction. They entertain themselves by "ruining your game." The problem; however, is that the longer they do this the more they need to extend themselves to feel the game bend beneath their weight. When small tests of the in-game rules no longer draw an endorphin rush, they move on to bigger and better schemes. Ultimately, they have no choice but to attack the broadest parts of the game economy and do things like pick on potentially suicidal players. It is their impetus.

As they became a dominant political force in New Eden, Goonswarm became increasingly vigorious with their attempts to attack players from every angle. Not just by generating wars or ganking spaceships, but by metagaming the very development process via the CSM and extolling the virtues of RL griefing. If you follow the escapades of Goonswarm from their earliest days to the present, you notice a pattern developing. No longer are the Goons the jihadists of old, doing the populist work of god and slaying the old-money dragons like Band of Brothers. Today, goons are the sadistic nobility of the middle ages.

Just as the RL nobles who came before them, goons are now reaping a popular backlash for their wanton disregard of the population. For years now Goons have felt as though it were their birth right to drive new players out of the game, to target the most mentally unstable players for greifing, and to exacerbate issues that plague the common EVE player. When last week's event dropped and the CEO and CSM elect of Goonswarm finally brought the absolute worst of their griefing ways into the most public of EVE's venues, the last straw had been dropped.

What we are witnessing today is a direct result of the success of Goonswarm. They will be, in the coming days, directly responsible for the undermining of the laissez-faire policy that has made CCP's EVE Online a unique and enjoyable game for all of us. The succes, the pyrric victory, of goonfleet has not only decimated their popular support in the "pubbie," community; It has undermined their ability to grief in a way that still gets them off.

With each subsequent effort by the goons to up the ante, to mock the response to The Mittani's comments, to continue their pointless crusade... they come one step closer to loosing completely. There is no battle that the goons cannot win. They have a voting block that can trump any other CSM candidate. They have the isk and manpower to dominate any battlefield or in-game market. But they cannot control the response of the community or the necessary response of the men and women at CCP to justify their actions to the world.

Ultimately the backlash against their actions is going to destroy the game they love and that is a truth they cannot face. I can't say that I look forward to the shitstorm that is bound to hit CCP like a tidal wave of grief, but anyone who says that this was not a long time coming obviously has no idea what makes goons tick.

The final catch-22 is now upon us. EVE thrives on the destructive influence of players like the goons and the goons thrive on it in turn, but the envelope has been pushed and EVE cannot take it. If EVE is pushed beyond the brink, CCP will be forced to tighten their regulation and break the game. If Goons do not push EVE beyond the brink they will become bored and simply stop logging in, denying the game thousands of active players and subscribers input.

Will the goons back down and attempt to gain some perspective on their success or will they ride on, energized by this latest incident, and cause a backlash like never before? Time will tell.

Never stop stop posting.

Goons actions are self destructive in the long run.

Thats about it really.

Quite amusing OP, tbh, somewhat worth the read, altho quite obvious where it come from.

Goons are literally destroying EVE, and by destroying EVE, they will either get bored of destroying EVE or get banned.

This.

Less than 3% of the whole subscriber base and they think that they run the whole game. The other 97% don't give a flaming **** what a measley 3% want.

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tl;dr: here's another mittens/goons hatepost.
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Me and my other six accounts will care the day I have someone to vote for. They're all **** as is.
Oh, and so is CSM, but that's another matter. I'd still vote, even if I don't believe in it. There's just noone to vote for, simple as.

Everything the OP said is 100% true.

"Har Har Har, we might be destroying EVE's reputation in the media, but we sure showed those goonies!!1"