You sound like a Goon alt trying to obscure their history. Well played yourself.

However, they are astonishingly poor winners who pay $10 to belong to the "winning" team. Their main tactic is to make other players so miserable that they leave the game. Their "leader" advocated driving other players to suicide. google Mittani art of war for more on that philosophy.

Something Awful forums is a business model that has made 1.5 million + dollars on subscriptions and has a substantial add revenue due to its subscribers. Whether or not some of this money is used to help the Goons along is impossible to ascertain. However what is undeniable is that someone has a very nice life because of Goon success.

It is this probable smashentment of RL money and influence with a game that makes people despise them. Its like the obnoxious guy who buys cheat codes and then brags about how he kicks ass.

The OP seemed to be asking what the animosity towards Goons was all about. My post was a look at them through the lens of uproar and discontent that leads towards negative feelings for them.

The really interesting thing is the reaction to that opinion; they seem very unhappy and offended.

Good god, what happened to my thread? Well, since we're all here... I'm going to love seeing goons scramble to find new moon goo after Odyessy hits. What shall ensue? We can only wait.

Goonies, try not to break each others skulls in. It kills your brain cells.

Wait... your trolling now, right? Because if not, this is the best scam.. errr.. business model evah! So you set up a forum where you ask people to pay 10 buck to pass the idiot filter. So actually even if your a complete nut, the teen buck will make you a genius. I'm not even laughing... if this is true, it's fukin brilliant! Every day I learn something new!

Posting in a "WE ARE STILL RELEVANT GOON ALT THREAD"

that's exactly what happened, and that's why the acceptable way to play the game is the way that you dictate yourself. One way of doing that is to let others dictate your game for you because you can't/won't take control yourself.

The game caters for any play style you choose, if you are able to secure it for yourself. But that's just it: you have to do it GÇö the game won't do it for you.

Let me put it this way:

We analyze the Goons purely because you're so different. We don't understand how you can derive pleasure from harassing people into quitting a game, particularly upon considering that each person you drive away, or harass to the point of 'I'm not coming back', is one less subscriber to keep this game going.

You see, your actions are counter-intuitive: you want to have fun playing the game, but you want to do that by making other people less inclined to play.. In essence: while the vast majority of EvE's player population wants to help grow the game and attract subscribers, you appear to desire the exact opposite.

If you drive enough people away -- however unlikely this is to actually happen -- CCP may even decide that EvE isn't profitable to operate any more. At that point, congratulations -- you've shut down a business and forced dozens of people out of work.

You act without understanding the self-destructive nature of your behavior.

That's why we think you're deserving of analysis.