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Why do people dislike Goons ?
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Moloney
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#41 - 2014-09-10 15:55:01 UTC
They are a group that by all accounts have an admin / logistical setup rivaling irl enterprise organization in a game environment.

None others have matched that nor do I suspect many want to play like that.

So there is no fighting them with expectations of success like you would with any other group. You just have to wait for them to get bored or randomly implode.

It's like taxes, they are always there and there is nothing you can do about it without significant effort that most don't enjoy spending in a game.

Engage tinfoil: always wondered if it's run by independently rich nerds, intelligent nerds that never left the basement or an rmt empire...
Absolutely Not Analt
Carebears on Fire
#42 - 2014-09-10 16:19:15 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
For some, Goons are a manifestation of all of their own inadequacies, externalized into an organization that is big, faceless, and easy to hate on.

For some, it's sour grapes, they have been historically successful in EVE and success comes at the expense of others.

For some, it's taking offense at their "to heck with everybody else" attitudes.

For some, it's because everyone else hates on them, and they're just joining the bandwagon.



This is probably the most concise answer I've seen to the question.

I personally don't have a problem with the Goons. They do go out of their way to create content, which is good for the game, and they go out of their way to poke at the broken parts until CCP fixes them, which is also good for the game.

I think a lot of people dislike them because of their more juvenile antics - internet spaceships being serious business and all. I have never had any real love for them. I suppose this stems from me being an older, cynical, and generally curmudgeonly fellow - I find their antics mildly annoying in the same way I find techno music and raves annoying, but I also don't actively dislike them. Overall, I think, love or hate them, they're actually good for the game, and I wonder what Eve would look like if they had never been involved (or if it would even still be around).

Eve is a multi player game. And you are the content. - Ralph King-Griffin Being meh at two things is not better than being great at one. - Lugh Crow-Slave
Phugoid
Absolute Order XL
Absolute Honor
#43 - 2014-09-10 18:15:43 UTC
Hmmmm...

Personally, I don't dislike them. I do respect what they have accomplished in the game.

I do not trust them tho, as I learned the hard way regarding ransoms and a couple of ganks. But hey, its the game.
Even survived a gank attempt on an empty freighter once...barely, but survived :)
I do know a couple of them in a shared chat, other than that no biggee.

For the most part they are busy against other "big boys" in the sandbox......

Flugzeugführer
Anya Klibor
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2014-09-10 19:16:17 UTC
It began with the forging of the Great Rings.

Leadership is something you learn. Maybe one day, you'll learn that.
Karl Jerr
Herzack Unit
#45 - 2014-09-11 01:25:52 UTC
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find their Plex,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of of the Blue Donut where the Unspeakable Meta lie.

Apart that I don't like or dislike them. Meta pseudopolitics in null sec seems to be from another world where some people, at the image of the Colonel Kurtz, have crossed a certain frontier...
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