The resignation of its leader, and a possible split within its ranks, could have an impact on EVE Online equal to any of the biggest wars that preceded it. This isn't the Mittani's first brush with controversy: In 2011 he was banned from EVE Online for 30 days, and removed from his position on the Council of Interstellar Management, for urging players at Fanfest (EVE's annual community convention held in Iceland) to dogpile another player and 'make the guy kill himself.' But this seems like an even bigger deal: The Goonswarm Federation, and The Imperium coalition it leads, is one of the longest-lived and most powerful organizations in EVE history, and has dominated the game for years despite multiple concerted efforts to dislodge it from power. Because of that, they have no interest in being a part of that faction: 'It feels good to be on the other side,' they wrote. One member of Goonswarm said in a forum post that the 'legacy, rules, and policies' of 'true goons'-players who came to EVE Online from the Something Awful forums, rather than joining Goonswarm directly-have failed the organization and its wider membership.

I have transferred shares to Xttz and will be making TheAdj Interim CEO of Goonwaffe.'īut that intransigence may be coming to an end, at least in the context of EVE Online. The only honorable thing to do is exit in an orderly fashion. You deserve better in leadership than having to continually be confronted with MITTANI MAN BAD day in, day out I, and my partner, deserve better than to wake each day to find some new horrific slander being levelled against me. 'The accusations that I am aware of are unsubstantiated falsehoods, and I did not sign up to be the scapegoat for the entire galaxy.

'The fact that my divorce, the loss of my dog, and a terrible number other of outright lies and falsehoods have been heaped on top of each other has resulted in me becoming simply too radioactive to continue leading Goonswarm without my presence being a net negative for the wider tribe. 'My people, I’m afraid that the sheer amount of smears being flung my way across the galaxy are simply too much to handle at a personal level,' The Mittani said in a Goonfleet forum post (via Imperium News).

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