Mar 10th 2012, 15:58:59
Originally posted by Pang:
Originally posted by Eric171:
Well, considering that they left the game in a strong position and now are back in the game again and you are out of LAF, I would say that it worked better for them than for you. ;p
I see it a bit differently... they left after being utterly crushed both militarily and politically;
maybe politically. Rival left without being crushed militarily, though.
they never won against LaF 1v1 which was their ultimate goal.
I confess my memory is sort of fuzzy around that time, but didn`t they fluffslap LAF around as much on an one on one base as it was possible during those servers wars? A couple times even maybe?
They claimed they would run LaF from the game and LaF would never net again. The word "ninja vanish" was used, which IMO is a synonym for "we're already beaten". LaF won the double crown 2 rounds later as Rival pissed away the last of the good will they had with ppl like TIE, ICN and a few other tags by suiciding on LaF from those tags. :)
Their hatred of LaF was all consuming and they left LaF stronger than when they started their crusade. That was the bottom line :p
Those who are back now are NOT the Rival'ers who ran the show back in the day and made all those poor choices -- if they were I'd probably have had to rejoin LaF to re-fight those wars again instead of having a great time with PDM. The Rival'ers I talk to today are a pretty nice group.
Their hatred of LaF was all consuming and they left LaF stronger than when they started their crusade. That was the bottom line :p
Those who are back now are NOT the Rival'ers who ran the show back in the day and made all those poor choices -- if they were I'd probably have had to rejoin LaF to re-fight those wars again instead of having a great time with PDM. The Rival'ers I talk to today are a pretty nice group.
Well, that is your version. From inside, as a simple member, what I saw was a lack of future in the game combined with a lack of a good political position combined with, and that was the most important part, a lack of new leadership willingly AND capable to step up and run the show for them. I bet different people will also have different versions of what happened, btw.
Regarding burning bridges due to suiciding, the people that did it didn`t really care and they already had little respect for ICN and TIE. Doing it from inside those tags was part of the point being made.
I don`t really know who brought rival back or who is there today, only thing I see and know are the public faces of mapleson and PG here in AT. The important thing is that it seems they are having fun.