Egos and Pride are the reasons why holo is the only show in town.
If Azrael de-tagged and joined Fresh today, they'd have a fighting chance even with sunday holo numbers.
If Friends/Slosh/Azrael/Curse joined together under one tag, so would they.
All these best-in-slot players in 6-18 man guilds sitting on their hands acting like they should have a fair shot. Acting like everyone else is the problem. Resigning themselves to failure and making threads about how awful the zerg is. Your complacency is the self-fulfilling prophecy. You make it possible for us to do what we do.
You didn't give those 'warm bodies' a chance. You didn't recruit them early and help them out. Fresh did, and still tries to (bless their hearts), but they still don't have the geared core you others do so, unfortunately, some freshies move on (hopefully most don't, happens tho).
It's not a matter of pixel lust or being a 'bluebie'. For most people it comes down to not wanting to PVP in rags against several factions on the server that have best in slot characters coupled with the amount of resistance they get trying to join other better geared/experienced forces on the server that aren't holo.
Drop the egos, invite a bunch of players who are eager or join a guild that's full of them like Fresh, teach them to be good pvpers or shut up and deal with it.
This is everquest and the
positive feedback cycle of guild momentum isn't some new concept, it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of this elf simulator and every other MMO.