Why Tune's Appearance as a Server White Knight is False...

[Beastagoog]

...simply put his Velious history is that every time a guild remotely gets into a contesting state/stage he goes out of his way to snuff it out.

Tune and Co DO NOT WANT COMPETITION they want feeder guilds for their sick pixel fantasies.

Example A:

Thunderdome -- a small guild with old vets in, and a bunch of new players who didn't want to join the zerg, cruising along, getting old world content week in and week out. They eventually get to a stage where they can compete decently in PvP. They start to win some PvP engagements with Apex.

What does Tune do?

Pulls his entire 50 man guild off ToV content and parks it in Kunark content to deny the smaller up and coming guild content they need for their members trying to snuff out the rise of a smaller guild.

Example B:

Epidemic the other smaller guild on the server -- Hillbillies, they like to PvP, they like to be loud, they spent lots of time getting their guild VP keys so they could progress as a group they start to win some PvP engagements with Apex.

What does Tune do?

Pulls his entire 50 man guild off ToV content and parks them in VP to deny Epidemic loot they could use to contest Apex with.

Example C:

Nillhium's(Tune's crew) arch-enemies return to the box and begin to smoke his guild into oblivion; within a week Tune's crew has run to hills. His closest pals don't even login to be by his side.

What does Tune do?

Ragnarok was trying to build a 3 day a week guild to contest with PvP but instead of fronting for PvP he starts to raid at 4am in the mornings doing Kunark raids till Ragnarok members realize that the games' actually still dull and boring and stop logging in to which he takes advantage of this fact and finally charges into battle winning a single PvP encounter after weeks of been hammered. Most Ragnarok players go back to the other games because well, raiding Velious is boring as shit.

Example D:

According to the forums/ingame information he's agreed with the leveling guild to not have his member's attack their members during their first 40 levels so that ultimately new players can reach level 50 and end up joining his guild. He spams threads about new players joining the server and will personally give them items/small PLs....but of all the 3 chances above he could have made the right decision to have a larger player base on the server instead he invests more time in to trying to hand pick those rare new players and coerce them on to a loot train in his guild.


Conclusion:

Ever chance that's come up to create a healthy vibrant server Tune's gone out of his way to not OPT in. He want's a server on his own terms, and that is his guild, and 1-2 leveling guilds coughing up players to join his ranks.

Fact is ever since he's lead the server as the #1 guild the pop has slowly been degrading from the high 200's to the sometimes 100's on weekends. This is evidence enough to prove the point that Tune and Co will never actually truly let the server grow outside of just trying to find pixel fiends to join their gravy ToV train.