The negotiations for the "casuals" have been about separating the playstyles so that the "hardcores" can no longer interfere with how they want to play the game and deny them pixels (at least non-VP). Our proposition is that if you want hardcore competition, go compete with like-minded guilds... leave the rest of the server alone. Wake up at 0300 for those dragons. Get the same shiny things you have been getting via the same processes.
Except now there might be a NEW set of shiny things via less variance and simulated patch re-pops.
And they CAN'T STAND the fact they can't have access to that. To the point where they keep trying to take their "priority mobs" of CT/Inny/VS/Trak off the table from sharing. You see, they have too many mouths to feed at this point. Nevermind the fact the rest of the server has been starving for the last 2.5 years because of the extreme barrier to entry they have placed on the raid scene.
Somehow THEIR mouths are more important, more hungry, and more entitled than the rest of the server because of their self-chosen playstyle.
Thus, the negotiations for the "hardcores" have been about ensuring they get a bigger piece of the pie because their chosen playstyle takes "more time and effort", thus denying pixels to those they deem not worthy. Because in order for them to enjoy their shiny things, other players must have less shiny things. In order for them to justify all the hours they spent poopsocking/tracking, all that suddenly seems ridiculous when other people don't have to put in that extreme amount of effort into getting the same shiny things. Not to mention, if more shiny things enter the market, the less their shiny things are worth. How can they sell epic MQs and Kunark BP/legs if other guilds have a reasonable shot at getting them?
This is so important to them, that they actually suggested withholding loot camps from being fair game during this raid suspension to even further hold the server hostage until they get their shiny pixels back. I have a sneaking suspicion there's some rent to pay! The stakes just seem way too high here for mature adults that just view this as a nostalgic hobby.
And just when they let it slip that no matter how the mobs are sliced, the hardcore minority should be entitled to more of the shiny things than anyone else, completely oblivious to the fact that the reason no one has "stepped up to take things from them" is because many of us don't want to play like sociopaths -- they put a negative spin on those who insist on making sure they aren't allowed to do that. So Chest becomes the villain. BDA becomes the shitheads of the server. Suddenly we're holding the server hostage because the hardcore cannot let go of the premise of "Nevermind we are getting the same amount as before... there are more shiny things to be had in the 1/1/1 proposal and we deserve them over the casuals."
Sure, they'll disguise it as "effort = reward",
but their effort = reward is fighting among the other hardcore like-minded guilds for their shiny things. More effort = lock out your opponents in Tier C or Tier 1. Have at it. Go to town with it! You will be rewarded by your efforts in competing against your Tier C/1 opponents. That is your competition. That is your effort vs. reward. It is isolated from the casual piece of the pie so you never again deny the majority of the server from enjoying it.
If this were truly about competition and effort=reward, then they should be more worried about dominating the other guild in Tier C/1 and getting 100% of the shiny things, than worried about what section of the "casual pie" they can negotiate away from them.
But they don't like how that will work out, because one hardcore guild in Tier C/1 will become the have-nots, while Tier R/2 will reap the benefits of playing nice, working together, and sharing their piece of the pie. The hardcores can't have that. Under hardcore competition, one guild is afraid of completely being locked out of shiny things and having their asses handed to them.
This is why proposals that separate the hardcore from the casual playstyles and keep them from interfering with each other keep getting "adjusted" to add "priority mobs", or limit the casuals in some way.
So keep ranting against BDA all you want... it doesn't change what's really going on here and who is really holding the server hostage because they cannot let go of greed.