Tarman, on 16 January 2013 - 08:35 PM, said:
It's about all the hype and bluster that organized team players threw up for ages, until they got a chance to put their AC20 where their mouth was. WE NEEDS 8MANZ FOR OUR ELITE TEAMSKILLS was the cry for a long time, along with claims that these magical millions of large organized groups were the driving force of the entire game and NEEDED full-on team matching or there would be no game.
Well, we got a place for them to play, and guess what? Now the story is OMG 8MANZ IS HARD AND I ONLY HAVE 3 FRIENDS I CANT PLAY PLUS ECM TEAMS SUK IMA GO ROLL SOME PUGS WITH 4MANZ OR DOUBLE 4MANZ BECAUSE THATS STILL WITHIN MY SKILLSET. I'm quite sure any actual teams wanting to 8man are disappointed at the lack of competition, since so many of the lesser team players melted back down into pug arenas where they know they can have a chance.
Again, this is not everyone across the board, absolutes are silly. But most puggers have zero respect for the teamers who are only there because it's easy money.
Hey, remember that terrible thread someone made when we were hours away from getting 8 manz? It think it was a battleborn knight, but I can't be absolutely certain.
Anyway, it had all these pictures and cute mentions of the elite 420 noscopers being the MWO equivalents to the clans, and this was their exodus from the pub ghetto of the sphere. Well, we got 8 manz, and WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW! We roll them for days on end, watching them ragequit, and having riffleman reporting on their puny, silent return to pub ghetto farming.
I remember when they had these crazy ideas that XL engines for OMG UBER, so you saw lots of 100% XL mechs in the 8 manz, that cut matches about 3 minutes shorter. Those guys were never seen again, in either 8 manz or the ghetto.
Zylo, on 16 January 2013 - 08:51 PM, said:
I just find it strange that your forum account shows "member since" as 5 minutes before your post when I mouse over your name.
It sets the timer from when you first login to the forum. This account was made way, way, way before the date listed, back when I had many of them going, and had yet to purchase founders.