Hey guys,
First, I never got to say this at any point last year. Thank you for providing a fun and balanced atmosphere that helped our bracket grow in the early months.
Every fight night you would drop a line in the 29s Fight Night thread on the official forums, log on to the 49queuelist and get in vent. You would switch sides as to balance skill. You voluntarily shelved your grandfathered gear so as to make the bracket more inviting to new players, and specifically caster classes.
You even joined me in asking that new Hunters roll a different class. And when they refused for several games? We had a good laugh farming them in vent while there teammates stump sat and laughed as well.
There was little in-fighting because WE understood the underlying social contract. In order to get games we needed to make sure that everyone, on both sides, was having a grand time.
At some point Ryan, DetoX, and later MB (though by that point we were pretty far gone) came and disrupted the community that we created. And all the while we were plagued by the ever-pestilent Willyshatner telling us that we COULD NOT regulate our social contract. Games stopped being about fun, they became win-at-all-costs. Booting players, fielding Hunters, and name calling ran rampant. In retrospect that was a very immature and poor decision on my part.
But how many of you OGs are around? What would it take for you to be interested in 29s again? Would you want to set up the goals and rules we originally set off with?
Thanks for reading.
Dont