IMO a news letter is pretty cool, but this is propaganda and trolling.
The real epic quest in Norrath is for friendship. And although I put that in a pretty silly way, i truly think most of us feel that this game is more about community then content, and that p99 being time locked for 5 years and still so active is pretty good evidence for this.
This news letter tho...it's about salting wounds, flaring people up, and if the recruitment stuff isn't a total troll, then about tearing down what other people have built.
The project leads and their staff can claim rooting dragons, making absurd raid rules, and etc is all about making a "fair playing field", but let's be real, they have multiple technical solutions for that. The way they've attempted to enforce a social solution feels like insanity and denial at their finest.
The private discord servers, lack of permissions to sections of these forums, GMs that get too involved in the drama to stay objective...All of this keeps being used and keeps ending bad, and keeps to not working. The only thing it's been good as is given a platform for toxic people to be heard and boxed people out.
If the project leads and devs ever want to get serious about the social state of the community and give equal access to raid content, then extend the play nice policy to this troll behavior in and outside of the game and implement a technical solution for access to raid content.
I haven't had the sound on in my game for about a year, but can someone tell me if each time an FTE goes out, does
THIS play?