We moved to 4 nights right as school started up. If you have been playing for 3-4 years now, you realize this is just another phase of inactivity that we see EVERY YEAR.
We see phases of inactivity with new content patches, School started a month ago, so I highly doubt school starting had anything to do with games stopping just shy of a week ago. In fact when you say things like:
I honestly let my account run out and have no interest in going back. I have been playing other games, and hanging out with friends. Hell, I needed a break from WoW anyways, I'm just wondering how many other people just felt the same way.
It probably has nothing to do with school starting up again. After all, how many people who play in this bracket are actually in school?
It didn't happen because of votekicks, it didn't happen because of drama.
Votekicks and drama = less players here to play games. Less players here to play games = games not happening. Games not happening = dead bracket. Especially when you have such a small population to begin with.
The only thing that had some impact on this coming about a half a month earlier than in the past is the fact that alliance had a lot of REALLY well geared hunters, who knew what they were doing. Horde simply didn't. I really think a lot of nights I tried to play through it, but it was not nearly as fun as it could have been just because of the hunters hopping around mid stopping me from ever actually getting to play O.
Of course, it's all about the hunters. And Alliance just being better while playing their hunters. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that they could have played any class besides hunters and the outcome would have been identical.
And for the last time, stop fucking arguing with willy. He makes the statements he does because he honestly believes a team with 0 hunters can outplay a team with 3 on skill and the power of love alone. 9 times out of 10 that will not happen, especially with the skill level of a few of the top hunters (all alliance). He isn't even anywhere near your viewpoints, so a rational conversation can never occur. He doesn't think hunters are overpowered in a 1v1 or 5v5 situation. Its hopeless.
I make the statements I do because I am a realist. I try to have the most accurate and realistic idea of what's going on, instead of trying to inject my own personal bias and feelings into a discussion like everyone else does. This means that even if I personally like or dislike something, I won't let that interfere with my point of view on it. For the record, a team with 0 coordinated players will never beat a team with any amount of coordinated players, regardless of personal skill. It just so happens that whenever a group of Detox or MB players is in a BG, they are very coordinated and playing against a very uncoordinated horde team.
It doesn't matter if they have 10 hunters on their side or none, the outcome would have always been the same.
Firstly, I'm sure there are a lot of people in 19s/70s that DO afk after high hunter (or whatever OP class) games. The difference is they have a couple hundred players in that bracket, and have the population to support shitty gameplay. Our bracket is small enough that a bad game means that one team stops playing, and the available pool of players there to replace them is limited. The upside is in a small community that we can limit things like hunters to keep everyone happy, but sadly there were a bunch of players that would rather not do that, and they all played for the alliance side.
Why do they have a couple hundred players? If every one of them knows that certain classes are OP and some games end up being class stacked, why would anyone bother queuing up for that kind of game play? The whole point I was trying to make is that there are dramatic differences between our bracket and those brackets. Differences that are determined by players who value getting games over being opinionated against certain aspects of the game (like hunters or GF weapons). They don't let their personal opinions get in the way of making sure games are happening.
Many of you in the 29 bracket have stated time and time again that 19s/70s are shit brackets, not worth playing. So while you sit here and say that only getting perfect games is appealing to you, your bracket is dead and other brackets are doing great because.... people are willing to compromise? Sure, I'll play in a 15 hunter game, and I'll stay in it all the way to the end, just like everyone else in that 15 hunter game did. I'll do that because I know that even though there are 15 hunters, it's still a close and competitive game. Even if it were a steamroll, at least it's over quickly. Even if we don't win, at least we're getting games. Even if games aren't perfect, at least I don't have to schedule my play time like a session with my therapist.
Do you see where I am going with this? Maybe the reason the 19s/70s brackets have so many players is because they aren't stupidly picky and obsessive over 'the perfect game.' Maybe at some point they realized that accepting a variety of games is much better than nitpicking each one until they die. Maybe they realized that the best way to 'control' the content of games was to have things like wargames and rated BGs when they really wanted 'the perfect game.'
Secondly, like him or not, Sam is one of a VERY small list of players who would actively call out what they were doing in ventrilo, and the ONLY mage to call his CCs. You might not like him, you might mute him, but if anyone horde side was trying to get people to play correctly via lessons and asking people to call things, it was him.
It has never been about whether or not I like or disliked Sam. No matter how he treats people, he's still just another person and he'll realize that eventually. Maybe he'll learn to be more forgiving and tolerant. Maybe he won't. Regardless, the bracket is what we make it. People queue up when they decide that getting games is better than arguing about the quality of games they are getting. People enjoy games when they realize that overcoming a challenge is what makes games interesting in the first place.
I don't disagree that he occasionally calls things out in vent. I don't disagree that he tries to get people to do things to better the team. What I do disagree with is when he takes everything uber personally and rages at people. Calling Megumi a faggot in a game where we have a total of two hunters on our team, simply because he's playing a hunter, isn't acceptable in any circumstance. Constantly degrading people who aren't meeting your expectations is the absolute worst way to get them to meet your expectations. Even the military has learned that lesson and their boot camp drill officers don't do what Sam does.
On top of all that, I have never once had a conversation with Sam where he contributed anything remotely positive or rational. Any and every conversation has ended in negative and very irrational sentiments towards me personally, even if the conversation was never about me to begin with. The guy would rather attack me than have a discussion and that isn't an acceptable form of intelligence in any conversation.
I would gladly concede any valid points he has, if he were capable/interested in presenting them in a manner more consistent with intelligent discussion. At that point we could probably agree on a great many things, while agreeing to disagree on a great many more things.
However, I don't wish to go into a back and forth here, so I am done.