EVE General Discussion

So let me see (assuming everyone is paying a subscription in one form or another), your going to use 3% subscriptions to blackmail CCP or else by your "glorious delussions" they are going to lose 100% of them. And you expect them not to do anything about this to prevent the ambitions of those 3% in favour of the remaining 97%? Best of luck

My supposition is that CCP will respond in the interest of this anti-goon sentiment to curb the griefing behavior that we have come to expect as the norm.

If it were as simple as that, it would have been done. The only thing that has toppled the goons in the past has been internal strife. There is no external power consolidated enough to oust them. Assuming that a massive coalition arrived today and took all of goonswarm space by the end of the month there would be no great cry for The Mittani's resignation. Players would know that goons were mere mortals and had no more entrenched power than most large alliances.

Unfortunately we all know that simply cannot happen. Even Pandemic Legion, probably the most powerful mobile space-raping entity that EVE has ever seen, has no chance against goonswarm. It is even doubtful that the combined powers of PL and the old guard of Raiden and Northern Coalition. could accomplish this task.

It does not take a great stretch of the imagination to understand the out-groups mentality here. They realize that they have been defeated and completely enslaved to the will of an overlord that publicly flaunts their intent to drive them out of the game and potentially to suicide. They have been armed this week with a single weapon to fight back with. Is it any surprise that they are vigorously utilizing it?

PL and TRI could easily run gewnz out of space. They aren't doing it because there is no reason to grind all those structures just to put an end to a lot of goodfites.

A long time ago, there was a boy who had a father that beat him mercilessly. Every time the boy was beaten, his mother would care for him, nurture him, and comfort him. Years passed as this happened everyday; his father would beat him, and his mother would heal him. Eventually the boy grew into a man, and eventually his mother grew old and passed away. At the funeral, the boy stood over his mothers casket, yet, he could not shed a tear. No matter how hard he tried, he could not cry for the woman that cared for him after every beating. Years passed again, and eventually his father died. At his fathers funeral, the man looked down at his father, and broke down, sobbing.

+1 to whoever understands why I posted this in this thread.

Your observation that most of EVE has Stockholm Syndrome is astute.

The player base as a whole is far too fragmentend to generate the kind of "epic," content that EVE is famous for. Metagaming was not an invention of goonswarm, but they made metagaming what it is today and many non-goons supplant their own lack of gaming experience with the posting of goon members, living vicariously through the torture they inflict on other players.

In one way or another the game truly does revolve around the exponential griefplay of goonswam on the universe around us; however, that escalation has finally proved to be untenable. The increased venom has reached a potency that even many goonswam allies and members have a problem with. The reaction of the hardened player base will pale in comparison to that of the world at large.

We have reached the critical mass illustrated by the abused child looking down on the dying figure of his father. We know he is the sole source of our pain, but he also shaped our very existence in the world.

Goons caring about EVE's reputation? Cultural victory right there.

If goons are winning, why has there been so many changes to all you hold dear? Contracts changed making scamming alot tougher. Concord response time improve. Aww, no concord insurance any more? Wait, is that PvE content, and an expansion full of new player tutorial stuff? We need to do more for the rookies since replenishing our player base pays the bills. Is to bad instead of fleshing the game out we have to do this to help protect them from griefers before they quit eve prior to learning how to play it.

If eve is a pvp game, why do they keep having to cater to and do so much dev work for the new players instead of more endgame stuff? Oh, that is because the retention rate is so low because of the level of new player harassment. Hey, high sec piracy is part of eve. But CCP needs new players to keep eve. Do some of you guys ever think about that before you act and then whine not enough vet content/sov/pos work is done? Either that or is your actual goal to see eve servers shut down, I mean seriously, eve is a business, they need money. It isn't a charity for socially repressed gamers.

It's spelled LOSING.

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One (1) "o", not 2. Not 3.

ONE (1).

In fact, exactly the same number of O's in the number ONE.

ONE.

LOSING.

Pyrrhic?



Urm.

What devastating cost? What victory? How does the 10k votes have anything to do with what's going on now.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

"Durpa Durpa, I can user words and not spell goodz, but I think Mittani is a extra speshul bad goon. I must create alt to post with because my total lack of male/female parts makes me try to make up for my lack of being relevant."



Does that help?