Apologies, I know I’m a little late to the party but I just wanted to say a little about what I heard about the incident. First and foremost yes I was not there so do correct me if I’m wrong, however I won’t go into detail too much. By the way I am Digz on the Far Shiverpeaks server and I am in Lion guild.
I’ve read this thread through from the post about us trebbing the GvG match, from my own personal perspective this is wrong and in my personal opinion (taking my Lion hat off) it shouldn’t have happened. I do not know how the instruction was cascaded down as I was not there or if it was an individual acting in their own conscience, many people have told me many things but at the end of the day it shouldn’t have happened.
I can understand peoples argument about WvW not being a place for GvG battles but then again I can understand others arguments for it, it’s more or less the same principle as solo fights. Everyone understands not to interrupt a 1v1 so it shouldn’t be done in a GvG. I said above I’m taking my Lion hat off at the moment, simply because I was not there and I cannot apologize on others behalf especially if they may not want to. As a person I want to work with other guilds on the FS server because we win or lose together, and I hate this situation where we have annoyed you and I am sorry for that. As for guilds on other servers I never want you to hate us, or should I say the guild that I am in, I want there to be a friendly rivalry as I have seen above in some posts regarding GvG battles, but I see it’s a bit late for that now for Lion…
In reference to our play style (my Lion hat comes back on) I see many posts from people complaining about not propping up towers with siege and defending them, yet we do and we get criticised by the other servers for it (not necessarily from our own, we get thanked!). Defence in this game is just as key as offence so yes we will use siege items to defend towers that we have taken in order to keep them, we have had many great battles defending towers with few numbers against many and it has been enjoyable to play them, even the ones we have lost and I’m sure it’s frustrating for the attacker but thoroughly rewarding if you finally take the tower – I have the same feelings when I’m the commanding attacker.
I don’t know if I will be slapped on the wrist for making this post but in all honesty everyone has a right to an opinion and I have shared mine in this post. I am not a person who needs be friends with everyone, I’m a person that wants to have a mutual respect with everyone and the guilds they represent, I also understand that mutual respect has been tarnished and it is up to Lion and the individual members to repair that in any way they can, if they chose to. I for one will endeavour to do that.
Once again, I cannot apologise on behalf of the guild as I am not in a position to do so but what I can say is that I understand both sides of the coin what did happen shouldn’t have happened from my own point of view and it is something that I would have boycotted if I was there. As for the ‘Lion Hunt’ it’s something we’re going to have to take due to what has happened and if I get jumped on by many players from JDGE guild well then so be it.
To move away from this particular topic, I’d like to say it was frustrating this week but thoroughly enjoyable to have a hard fought week with the servers we faced and it is something the FS border relishes, and does not shy away from. We look forward to many more battles, hopefully in better spirits.