Originally Posted by heartbrand
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Yikes lot of inaccuracies here not sure where to even begin my incoming epic heartbrand essay.
1) Azrael left RD without ever speaking to me first about their decision. When we agreed to merge into one, it was to be a strong united guild. We lost several members, if not 10+ over this to Nihilum due to the "interesting" nature of some of AZ's players. We accepted that for the "greater good" of contesting. Then AZ basically stabbed us in the back by deguilding and leaving us with a depleted force which we have had to restock.
2) I spoke with most of AZ over the course of the last week and they all basically said they disliked the decision by Lite but that they felt they owed Lite their loyalty, which is 100% fine and respectable. I suggested a brand new guild tag, co-leadership, etc., but it was all shot down. I was told AZ wanted to be their own crew. The problem with this is that it creates unnecessary confusion, rivalries amongst guilds, the option to "end" the pact at any time, the issue of if player a burns bridges in Red Dawn <cough slathar> they can show up tagged AZ and be raiding with us 5 minutes later, differing philosophies on known cheaters such as Brainz, etc. A long term alliance wasn't tenable, especially with AZ admitting to me that their goal in velious is to be an elite pvp squad. Velious requires you to gear up to progress further, if you put gear on people like salem WHO I LIKE, it won't help you kill the next dragon if they're not there.
3) Because of this we agreed to return Red Dawn to it's roots, it's charter, it's message etc. We have rebuilt around our core and new blue players. This is a PVE progression first guild, with the hope of contesting all the time when we're at that point, and in a fun respectable manner.
4) No one from AZ ever approached me yesterday about allying for CT, but how would it have been any different than allying with Nilly? Either way it is a huge zerg of 2 vs 1. Are you mad we chose them over you? Allying with AZ would turn us into a feeder guild for AZ. It means allying with the people who just backstabbed us, who my members told me they DONT want to play with, it means lite picking our members off, and eventually following lite around until he inevitably burns out for the 27th time, which brings me to the next point.
Azrael people keep talking about "scraps" and being a "feeder" guild to Nihilum, but yet they would want Red Dawn to be a feeder guild to Azrael and call the shots. With Nihilum it's a gentlemen's agreement, there's no "alliance" or anything difficult to monitor such as weekly politics and lite's period. There's no numerous questions to be asked about loot systems or calls. It's simple and easy. With Azrael it's constant confusion of what lite will decide this week. if he doesn't give it the lite mexican stamp of approval, Azrael isn't logging in. If someone gets mad about loot, everything crumbles. It's chaos.
I made the call that makes the most sense for my guild BOTH short term and long term, to build Red Dawn as Red Dawn. I've seen Lite make 17 variations of Azrael now. Red Dawn will be here a year from now. Azrael? Who knows. A GM decision they don't like? Rage quit protest. Lite deported? Azrael dead. Lite finally banned for boxing? Azrael dead. It's a bunch of on again off again players. It was an easy call.
Best of luck.
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02-18-2014, 07:28 AM
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