With the current Seafarer logic, Piken should hate Riverside for “teaming” up with SFR and next match up only focus them and “team” up with other server to show them “revenge” and how Piken “felt”. As I see here nobody is complaining about Viz that was the server that chose to focus Seafarer like Seafarer focuses Piken now. Instead it’s the second server that took advantage of the situation that is getting the “revenge” cause Seafarer know they can’t beat Vizunah and get the revenge they truely want. They are just really hurt and angry cause Vizunah made them come last and they can’t take revenge on Viz so they want to take revenge on Piken.
It would be really sad if Piken had such a community like that and would only focus Riverside next time they meet and show them how “Piken” felt which actually had fun fighting Riverside.
As one of the piken commanders, I can tell you my feelings towards riverside and, though I cannot speak for my colleagues, I imagine a fair few of they and the troops feel the same way.
I don’t feel angry towards Riverside, I feel disappointed and puzzled. I cannot imagine how they accepted what was done to them this match up. They didn’t “profit” from the situation, they were used. They took the scraps and crumbs that Seafarers left for them, once the heavy lifting had been done.
I once took the step of speaking out against the first and only “official alliance” that some piken commanders tried with another server long ago. I picked up a handful of bold troops and we went out and proved that we could win our own victories by crushing an “allied” tower into dust. It was a small thing, but it speaks volumes for how I think most players want to feel when they play in WvW. They want to feel they achieved something for themselves, not that they achieved what they were given, or allowed to win at.
A server like Gunnars Hold would have marched over to seafarers and piken equally, taking victories here and there. Whenever Piken troops speak of Gunnars, it is with respect and a feeling that if they had more numbers, they would be in a much better place, but that even without them, they fight well and with a true heart.
A server like Riverside isn’t seen as bad, they are seen as nothing. They were a colour on the map, one that occasionally moved in after a seafarers force and sometimes did some nameless field fighting here or there. I cannot imagine what it must be like for the Riverside commanders or the troops they led. Did not one speak out and demand a worthy battle or were they all content to follow along?
It is noteworthy that Seafarers didn’t even act as a kind master, because on occasion I did see them amuse themselves by taking the Riverside EB keep. It wasn’t done for any other reason than to rub Riversides face in the dirt. A reminder that they shouldn’t think for themselves and they just accepted it. Piken would have gotten angry and lashed out, but Riverside….they just accepted the beating and meekly tidied up the map afterwards, retaking their EB keep and shrugging that it was one of those things and surely wouldn’t happen again.
What I will take from this week is that Seafarers is my worthy foe. It has been said that we can judge ourselves on the quality of our enemies and in that I am pleased.
But Riverside….in a week I will have forgotten them and it saddens me that they have let their light, courage and pride fall so low. It is better to be admired, hated even, than to be unsung and unremembered.
. That’s the lamest excuse I’ve ever seen.
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