Hope from your wise words?...
Robespierre,
That was a splendid post, thank you. You must have read my “how the lion was slain by a rat” post – my first on this forum. I am glad it triggered your writing such wise words. I was surprised and a little saddened to see CJ locking the "Cuba and the bay of pigs" thread which I had posted my story in, considering it had been viewed by so many who were enjoying a vigorous debate on this game’s ethics. At least CJ did not delete the thread, so it’s still there to read. I hope as many people see this thread with your excellent post – the best written I have seen to date.
I joined Ferr early on as I saw him as a champion of sane, fair and honourable behaviour in this game. Ripper has upheld those principles (question mark over sane maybe!) as our leader in TKO admirably against increasingly dirty tactics from our competitors. Ferr and Ripper are two very different personalities with the same high standards of ethics. I have played this game along side them because I feel safe I am in a team who will always do the right thing. My comrades and fellow officers feel the same I think.
However this last outrage at the hands of SUP and their pawn, SUP RULES has disgusted us so much I doubt many of us will continue. Panzer, Bendover, Spartan Stars, Flynn, Chang, Shiz and others have already added “retired” to their names. I and many others might well be joining them. Without playing alongside Panzer et al this game will be a lot less enjoyable for me.
My main reason for retiring though lies with Gree’s attitude over these vial tactics by SUP. Gree seem to condone them and have replied to my colleagues' numerous tickets calling for fair play with smug “too bad, your problem, not ours” responses. I am not holding my breath for Gree to change their stance on this as it comes right from the top.
I have had one big question about SUP or PUN for a long time now. There must be some bad apples in their faction for all these dirty tactics to take place. I don’t know their names nor do I care. But much more importantly there must be some great people in SUP too, who believe in honourable fair play as we do. Who don’t condone such unpleasant bullying. Who want to enjoy the game and like winning. Who stay in SUP because its the best return on their real money investment to be with the number 1 team as they always get the best prizes and boosts – I don’t blame them for that at all.
There seem to be lots of factions with players showing SUP in their names. I assume they have SUP in their names as a badge of honour and wear it with pride. I would be amazed if they all know what unethical unpleasant tactics they are celebrating by having SUP in their names. I think the vast majority are decent people like we are who have no clue how sick SUP has become.
So here is my question: Are there any honourable decent people in SUP1 and 2 who are as appalled by what their colleagues have done as we are? If so they might consider leaving out of principle and either starting a decent faction or joining another with the right set of principles.
If I and my comrades see some of SUP making a stand against this thuggish deeply unpleasant behaviour and leaving, it just might restore some of our faith in this game. Then all of us together can work with Gree on trying to make this a game with a set of rules which encourage fair, fun play. And all of us together can ignore the few bad apples in SUP left behind to count their shabbily won trophies.
With hope,
JoanneTKO
PS I agree about the medals – I am not even trying this time around – first MW event I won’t complete since I started playing the game