The tomato has spoken!
But seriously, he's right. The server IS EXACTLY what the players have made it. You guys can keep blaming Empire, but two things:
If the guild you're in was on top rather than Empire, it'd be because you won the zerg contest. If you claim you'd stop recruiting players when you reached a certain point, you're a damn liar or a terribly inept leader. A guild DIES on a server this small when it closes recruitment because player attrition is too high and the recruitment pool is too small.
Secondly, Empire may be recruiting all of the players, but they wouldn't have anyone to recruit if those players weren't willingly choosing the easy route. Face it, we are not teenagers / young adults in the year 2000 any more. The population here is very niche, and it's filled with aging gamers that have responsibilities now. I know this more than most. I was one of the biggest neck beards on Fennin Ro back in the day, now I can barely log in and resort to begging for fungis on the forums.
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There was a chance for a better server while Fresh was still around. Leaving to join the likes of Jib and Lite was a TERRIBLE call. Max may be a little psycho, but he's absolutely right.
The second chance was with TMO coming over from blue. Hell, had we allied with CS we would have been fielding comparable raid sizes to Empire. TMO had an abundance of talented raiders that have been doing this content since some of you were in diapers, while CS had the PVP experience from being here longer. It could have been a magical union.