I suggest you play a free shard if you want UO without items. This is the year 2010 and you don't have the support from the community to even ask for them to be removed. The only reason you're asking them to be removed is because you didn't like it (couldn't keep up) and now it's your job to make sure no one gets to enjoy it, since you didn't.Removal of faction items is the only way to go here. Siege is not the PvP shard and this is about more than PvP... These items create a imbalance between factioners and non-factioners.... and their existance on Siege is just wrong. We have fought too hard for balance, to let these overpowered items remain.
And not one of you guys that are wanting to keep faction items, EVER do anything with factions unless you need kill points. To that end, you are no better than Trammies that join factions to use their equipment.
We guarded sigils - not you or anyone else contested us for them
We did champ spawns - not you or anyone else raided us doing them
We did PvP - no one bothered fighting us unless you were almost assured a victory doing a naked stealth dismount gank.
You want to talk about selfish? How about when we proposed making non-faction artifacts more readily available to you all who don't want to participate in factions... and your response was "No, not without removing faction items AND giving us better access to non-faction items."
And you want to talk about selfish?
And FYI - every single one of us still plays siege... its just that we don't play it as much as we used to because the players that are left (like you) just aren't good enough to compete at the level we do. So we tried asking to give you better items so you'd be able to... and you selfishly refused saying that we needed to give up a part of factions that we enjoyed too... because you didn't enjoy it.
Well honey, I didn't graduate college to go back to ****ing highschool. Bout time you grew the **** up.