Quite a few people have made an attempt to bridge the gap between alliances, Tilda being the most recent that I remember, but nothing ever comes of it. It just seems to me that nobody gives a flying crap. 
Originally posted by Sissyfoo
Nah, I was tempted to delete but didn't have the heart to throw away all the money I have spent in subs. That would be really fucking stupid.
I...just...quit. Planetside is boring as hell to play and I'm not gonna waste £8 per month on it so I need something else to fill the void between studying, eating and sleeping.
Hmmm, I was just trying to think of all the reasons which made me quit and by god, there are a lot.
When I first started playing the game it was a magical experience. EVERYONE was polite, considerate and generous. High level people would appear out of nowhere and give me some cash/itamz whilst I was resting in between getting my butt whipped on Salisbury Plains and give me helpful advice...without me asking for it. When I say 'helpful advice' I mean just that and not the snide criticism that seems so prevalent these days. Nowadays most people wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
So I finally got a char into its high 40s (I think it was Sissyfoo the ickle fire wizard) and took him to Emain to see what this RvR thing was all about. It wasn't too bad to begin with. I did some nice damage on red con trolls and kobolds and managed to ding R1L6 before getting a tad weary of the whole 'they zerg so we zerg' routine. This is something that has gone on for too long and I can only manage about 30 mins in Emain / Odins before I finally give up. I don't know how you RP whores manage to do it day in and day out.
Then SC came out...bye bye damage. Nobody wanted to go on Itam hunts anymore. "C'mon guys. We are organising a trip to LB for some itamz", my guild would say. "What is the point? SC is better!", the alliance would reply. Hardly anyone wants to do any old skool hunting these days. Sure, the drops aren't great but I still find the raids a lot of fun.
There is an overwhelming sense of mistrust, apathy (not THE Apathy) and disharmony in this realm. Since the relics were stolen from us we have made a few attempts to get them back but, and correct me if I am wrong, we haven't done anything about them in the last 3-4 months. Shortly after they were pinched there were several attempts to get them back but it seemed to me that only the mega-big guilds knew about it. Who knows, if more Alliance leaders were notified then there could have been 6 shiny relics sitting in both our relic keeps...or probably not. Like I said, who knows?
Another issue that made me decide to quit was the fact that a great deal of the groups I have joined are comprised of teeny dickheads who have nothing better to do than mouth off and insult other people. All they seem to do is bitch, whine and tell people how to play their characters. If they die once then they have a hissy fit and leave in a sulk, leaving the rest of the group to piss into the wind. I was in a group in Avalon City recently and it was all going really, really well. I was completely baffled until the cleric asked how old everyone was...turns out that I was the youngest one in the group and the others had similar complaints about the level of immaturity that has been growing in the recent months.
I think that sums up the majority of my reasons for quitting. GOA bumping up the price for subs to £8 per month with no tangible benefits didn't really help but that is the way things go in a Capitalist world. I don't have too much to gripe about in terms of Mythic. Aside from the SC implementation with which I have a serious love / hate relationship, they haven't really nerfed any of my classes. I do think that they take a heavy handed approach to bringing balance to the game and that, like most companies, they only listen to the whines because if enough people whine then chances are there is something wrong with the product.
I guess the real cincher...the thing that made me realise that it was time to end the subs payment was...when I realised that the BEST group I had been in over the last month, the one where I had got the most loot, the most XP possible and had the most fun...was when I was grouped with my buff bot. I think that is a pretty good indication that it is time to call it a day.
Anyhoo, I may return one day...possibly to see what the new Add-on is like but in the meantime I hope Albion matures enough to dig itself out of the cess pool that it has fallen into. With more and more of the old skool mature players leaving it seems less and less likely but, like they say in the hood, stranger shit has happened.
I was gonna make a list of all the people who made my stay in Albion a happy one but that is so cliché. Instead I was going to make a list of all the people who made my stay in Albion a living nightmare and who I hope get run over by a bus ... but I couldn't remember all of their names. You know who you are!