LOL Seriously, do you believe Gilfane is actually threatening people with being a black-list for dealing with ya? I think they are yanking your chain!
True story. If you stand up and think for yourself or go against the wishes of how GIL wants the shard to run, just know you will be socially blackballed. it happened to me, it happened to freja and it WILL happen to you to.
They bank on the theory you will side with them as opposed to a few guilds who may or may not stay for good. Cuz if those pvp guilds leave, theretc is no one that can keep GIL of imposing their will upon the shard.
Make no mistake, GIL has some great people and have done some wonderful things for siege. However, in my experience and opinion, it is also filled with a bunch of backstabbing, cry baby, it's my ball members who do what they want when it's convent for them.
In GILs defence, it is their right to act the way they wish just like it is the right for HI5 and LB to slaughter anyone who shows up to an EM event, on a so called pvp ruleset shard, in a non guard zone PVP area.
I understand GILs argument about wanting siege to be a player friendly community. That players/guilds that may or may not use methods and tactics, in which they don't agree make civil gameplay inconvient, does not mean blackballing anyone or using "embargo" tactics is any different in comparison.
If we can only agree to disagree would be a huge step forward. I am pretty sure this post will get copied and pasted on some private thread on GILs website calling for my head. I suspect I am already on their blackball list and won't be surprised if I get banned from auction because I will not bow down to their demands.
I hope and pray that GIL leadership will realize that this course of action is counter productive to the shard they wish it to be. I hope and pray that HI5 and LB will realize that "most" non GIL members, myself included, on this shard welcome you here to free us from this stranglehold GIL has it under.
HOWEVER, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE DO I WANT TO TRADE ONE DICTATOR FOR ANOTHER. Please...... both sides, for the sake of everyone in the middle who are not welcome to join GIL, HI5 or LB, I beg you to have mercy on the little guy who is trapped in the middle.