What is BDA doing to work towards a raid agreement?

[Uteunayr]

Originally Posted by Hitpoint [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's true, I was a bit flippant. The few that are, are definitely quite a vocal minority.

And vocal minorities, regrettably, are the way humans tend to work. It is sad, and it is a particular challenge to people in my line of work (comparative public opinion), as people tend to focus on the negative, and be loudest about the negative things, when those that are happy and content rarely make as much of a fuss about how happy they are. It's also something good to keep in mind if you ever look at player ratings in metacritic scores.

[Droog007]

Originally Posted by Hitpoint [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why are no hardcores complaining about the new deal then? While basically every bda member is.

I'll admit I didn't read the entire thread - but several posts in the last few pages seemed to indicate that the hardcores are mad that that BDA will be able to get mobs outside of a head-to-head with them.

Also, plenty of off-the-cuff remarks in other threads from ostensibly hardcore players whining about items being devalued, sarcastic "grats on your pixels", etc...

You're really telling me that everyone but BDA is completely in love with this new arrangement?

I'm sure plenty of people wished for a punitive outcome, rather than all-inclusive... because, hey - we hate your frickin' guts for being dicks all these months and years. But pixels will go a long way to salve that sore.

[Sadad]

Originally Posted by Blink [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fun fact: FE was formed because of Chest's inability to compromise.

Kinda funny to see it yet again.

Well that's just blatantly false.

[Sadad]

Originally Posted by Clark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sure as hell doesn't mean you are entitled to terrorize the rest of the server with fucking ridiculous demands.

What are you even talking about, bro? 7 out of 9 guilds were in lock-step throughout the process. 2 out of 9 dissented from them. Who's terrorizing who in that situation?

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

you act like you don't want our playstyle or that our playstyle is so wrong, but you def batphoned vox tal draco all at varying hours from early early morning/mid day/late night. so don't act like you have some play style that's so unique and diff than us. FE did what they had to do to get pixels from TMO unlike most.

Difference being that we don't force our members to PM us when they park a toon somewhere.

Originally Posted by Swifty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

30 BDA logs in 30 secs after Vox pop, Casual as fuck.

Casuals can't be organized, then. Well, they can, but don't even think about beating the shit out of TMO or they'll belittle what you did while simultaneously accusing you of striving for too much.

[Hitpoint]

Originally Posted by Sadad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Difference being that we don't force our members to PM us when they park a toon somewhere.

We do not, and have never required this. I'm not even sure who we would PM if we wanted to.

[Razdeline]

BDA's attitude is sadly reminding me of TMO in their infancy.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Razdeline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

BDA's attitude is sadly reminding me of TMO in their infancy.

What attitude is that, sir? The attitude where we eschew the douchebaggery of the raid scene and seek to work with the Tier 2 guilds to develop a rotation that caters to casual raiding, much to the chagrin of Tier 1 guilds that have a chip on their shoulder about wanting us to play their way and get our hands dirty with them?

[Byrjun]

Not sure why anyone would want a rotation at this point. What we got instead was a way to keep a competitive aspect to the game, while EVERY guild on the server gets more raid mobs. This has been a win-win-win outcome, in the words of the venerable Michael Scott.