I am not saying they may not do the same but I bet if you average how much Elusive pay per month and PPK pay per month, Elusive pay WAY more than you. They are nicer to the game community. I have NEVER seen PPK hold a world boss, while Elusive does. Elusive seems more willing to help the mid gamers than PPK. PPK is nothing more than elitist, game sucking, cheapskates on a whole vs Elusive, which is probably the best end game guild, at least on artemis... I don't know about Reni, but as much as I don't like Zid and some of the Raves, Borellas... they seem more helpful then PPK... SO yes, I have NO worry about PPK disappearing..... ever.
Edit to add: Yeah Yomen, your right it isn't a big deal if me and everyone I know quits paying, and they pass it to their friends and on and on. The big idea is, it is NOT just one person, saying they are gonna quit. You are right, just one means nothing. It is only when we band together that it starts to matter. Endgamers think they spend enough to keep a servers up and running (including you!!!). What is your job? I hope it isn't just through your website (which I love thx! you!, so you know it is nothing about you personally). These people think they can threaten the game and you don't jump their "ish" but you just MY "ish", just cause you don't like what I am saying? You didn't make any point about these endgamers threatening to quit over "being bored" which is way worse than threatening to quit paying over "catering to F2P endgamers".
I've gotten numerous whispers from multiple endgames from multiples servers saying they are quitting, selling gear. The instance is a joke. Why would they keep playing and farm the same thing all day?
I am saying, to the mid range not that well geared players, what happens when you are geared fully? What happens when you walk through that instance. Completed. Grats. Now the next instance comes out, and you finish it in one day. What do you do with the rest of your time? There goes the mid range guilds, and a lot more of them start quitting than the endgame guilds that quit before them (for the same reason).
PS: Idk what you mean we don't help the community. I don't pay for this game. I can't give handouts like the elusive members. They spend billions on gear, and tell PPK that our gear is terrible. They have amazing gear, but they had troubles. Everyone has troubles.
I help(ed) the community by making numerous KBN videos. Teaching them. Telling them strategies to
EVERY BOSS IN KBN. I have numerous videos up showing how to do that. If someone cannot do what I am instructing in a video, what is their problem? They are
lacking the skill to beat the boss. You don't need amazing gear to down bosses. Gear makes it easier. If we didn't have skill, we would wipe on every boss of KBN.
SKILL.
We are not geared like ELUSIVE. Elusive pays for their gear. They have all the orange stats t9 gear t12 weapons etc, but they had troubles downing KBN, even tho we had much worse gear. Tell me why did they have troubles downing KBN? They didn't have the skill to do it.
I bet you'd be surprised to hear this! I even whisper a few of them. I even ran with them, telling them what they needed to do. Eventually 6th boss was downed, and I gave tips on 7th. I would hope they would believe this as I do, but I
helped them with finishing that instance, just as they help the rest of the community by... whatever they do. I still whisper them and we talk back and forth giving each other tips for the new instance (even with the joke that it is).
TL;DR:
Endgame guilds (atm) are going to quit. Mid range guilds will start to clear Beth and get just as geared as an endgame guild should (no, not t12... t10. t7 / t6 gears..) The next 12man instance will come out, and it will be just as easy for them as it was for us. They will want to quit also. The new endgame guilds then quit. The cycle will continue.
I AGREE with gear being easily accessible, and one of the main guilds opposing it is PPK, which has been using it for profit for years. They WERE banned for exploiting first boss of KBNHM. That is a fact. Therefore that isn't attacking someone...... that is stating the truth. Where did I get the information about why they were banned, From a PPK that was not banned... They joined another guild until they were unbanned. You think it is an attack if it is the truth?
If you claim that pulling the boss out of the room to further manipulate the game to get gold faster was our goal, then maybe you should run with us sometime. We then afterwards did it the right way, and we did not lose any time. The point was not to make gold so I think you have no knowledge of how endgame works, or how it would end up if the endgame started being like this with each instance.
Also, pulling the boss out of the room is one thing, sure. But what about the guild that pulls the adds from 4th boss, kills the adds, and then leaves the instance to lose the buffs, go back in, and kill the boss? That is an actual DPS enhancing exploit. I think the guild you are praising is guilty (a good handful of guilds are... as well as pulling the boss. Not pointing fingers, IDC, hf). Why should I care though? I don't. Why should you care? You shouldn't.
Just like us, they are selling the gear they get for money, and to help people. I have multiple friends in certain guilds where I cut the price by 50% for gear to help their guild get better.
I don't make threads telling people that I am going to give away things, because that is not a thing that I can do. I also don't need to come on the forums and make posts about each community driven thing I do either.
Now com'on. Let's be serious about the topic at hand and stop talking about nothing.