(06-05-2017, 01:00 PM)Graeham Wrote: I find that there's usually two sides to most stories. I've seen people bring up Balmung in a negative way but I've also seen people bring up Mateus in a negative manner too. Ultimately, though, it could just be venting taken out of context. Maybe the people involved were just having a bad day, maybe there's growing pains because they're frustrated that they moved from Balmung to get away from Balmung and now a lot of people from that server are now knocking on their door. A lot of people on Mateus may have genuine concerns that some people are only going to settle temporarily on the new server, set up connections and then jump ship if Balmung opens up again.
I remember there being a similar rivalry between Balmung and Gilgamesh...that got pretty heated and nasty at various points. Balmung certainly wasn't innocent in that battle, nor was Gilgamesh.
Server pride can be very dangerous, though. It can make even genuinely nice people act unreasonable much in the same way as even regular people can act deranged and/or overly defensive regarding their favour football teams.
In short, it's definitely not a black or white situation and it shouldn't be treated as such. Ultimately, though, Balmung has the luxury of being a behemoth - a few bad apples taking aim at it isn't going to destabilise it. Mateus, though, is smaller, so it stands to lose more if it ends up getting a poor reputation based on a few vocal, bitter players. With that in mind, Balmung players may need to just swallow their pride and shrug off the venting/sniping rather than bringing it up across multiple threads whenever Mateus (or another server seeking to sustain role-players) is brought up.
There's this age-old adage about those who don't learn from history. I forget how it goes.
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