EVE General Discussion

Title states it all. No this isn't a troll, flame or insult toward Goblin but rather I ask a legitimate question. What exactly do his article's contribute toward in improving Eve? I read all the pretty little news sites mainly for laughes over the propoganda war and of course for the abissmal articles written on an almost daily basis by Gelvon Goblin.

See I understand that all if not mainly a majority of the news written for EN24 and Mittani well are spun. But even I fail to see any legitimate contribution Goblin brings except for infuriating those who endure the pain of reading his opinions on making Eve like World Of Warcraft.

His articles hold little context. Rather than taking an outward look at Eve as a whole, he often gloats from simple things like his wallet balance, to his "acceptance" into TEST (as if this was an achievement worth any merit at this stage in the war), and of course let us never forget my fellow simpletons he achieved the "gold cap" in WoW.

No I'm not kidding. . Why not stick someone else to fill the gap on the "economic" section of your website? Why keep giving this person chances to make EN24 look comical?

Please someone enlighten me. How exactly does comparing looting boars for gold give one credentials in speaking on the vast intricate workings of Eve's economic system? Let's not even touch his opinion on null sec, frig pvp, combat experience vs care bearing etc.

My point is Riv. You read these forums. And Ripard you are a CSM. Do us all a favor and send this little green goblin back to the Horde where he belongs.


(Also I fail at life for confusing Riverini and Ripard Teg. I shall take no less than 50 lashes for my incompetence )

riverini's not on the csm?

No not butthurt. Just rather perplexed. You'd think after three consecutive weeks of Goblin's articles going down in flames in the comments section someone would have taken notice

I also find these threads interesting seeing as players are influenced to a degree by editor's and writers in Eve's major news sites. After all information is key in influencing peoples opinions.

We can only hope and pray my friend.

In b4 ships turn into flying mounts and we can have pets in station

Its tough to find quality writers and en24 writers have to have the added stigma of being rigidly anti-CFC/goons. Except for Wilhelm Arcturus who is actually in TNT- one of the eldest CFC alliances. But his blog posts are often whimsical and filled with beautiful pictures without any alliance rhetoric.

Goblin fancies himself a superior player/intellect than most which is ironic considering he is currently being treated as a doormat by TEST alliance who have allowed him once again to donate billions of isk for the privilege of being in a large 0.0 alliance. Despite all of his hurf blurf about how highsec is where the money and pvp is at- Gobbo wants to be in 0.0 since most of his characters in training are capital characters, and he recognizes caps to be a form of ~endgame~ if there were such a thing in EVE.

What a dumb post , you dont need to read his site okey?

Well, this green greedy goblin fellow did have one good post.

I may be biased, as Lux is a personal friend:

http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-scam-contract-margin-trade-scam-and.html

May I propose everyone send Lux Marquis a tip either in isk or bounty in appreciation for Lux's hard work making Eve a better place?

Some of my favorite quotes by Goblin:

"This scam is so well thought that I fell for it"

" Never update orders casually like the moron of the week: me."

"Way to lose 950M in 5 seconds!"

My personal favorite is where Goblin says he wasn't scammed because he can just try to sell these grossly inflated items to someone else himself and wait... clearly has issues with basic reasoning. That's like a miner saying he didn't lose out when his ship was ganked because he can just mine more minerals for hours on end and make another.

Why would rivierini care about Gevlon's contribution to EVE as long as Gevlon is creating pageviews for EN24?

I agree with the OP. Glevon Goblin is an absolute waste of space. He proves with every article that he knows nothing about EVE, does not listen to anyone else's opinions and has this thing about separating people into tiered categories (of which shockingly he is at the top). I like EN24, but there's more and more of these nonsense articles appearing on there, and I'm not bothering to go on there most of the time now. Now I just jump straight to the blogs like Jester's Trek, or onto alternative eve news sites.

At the end of the day EN24 wants to be seen as a serious news site, and these posts go directly against that image.