Not that the way Method reacted legitimate but it isn't any different from the way Limit has been reacting during previous tiers, especially Max and his tweets. That said, I would have expected Method to have higher standards and not do the same thing, so that's quite disappointing.
Different people require a completely different environment and set of circumstances to thrive. Some, like me, perform much better under great stress, while others perform much better when they are encouraged. What is universal, however, is complacency. You need something to drive you forward, to make you push beyond your current limits, otherwise you will simply stagnate. And it's hard to find a reason to push yourself like that if you just keep winning, which is exactly what happened to Method. The signs that they had lost the top spot were there from the very beginning (G'huun), but they pulled through due to a combination of experience, strategy, dumb luck and other such factors. To bring themselves back to their old level, they needed some adversity, something to make them confront themselves and understand what they need to change and how to do so, and now they've gotten just that.
Compromising is obviously going to be difficult, but if you continue to run away from it you will never evolve. The biggest question is whether Method will evolve or if they will decide to call it quits, which honestly wouldn't surprise me anymore as this was pretty much the worst time for them to lose a WF race in BfA.
It's a natural response from any competitive person or group. I can't judge them (or Limit in the previous tiers) for it.
There are no standards in competition, just the drive to succeed (without cheating, that is). Nice guys may not finish last, but they're certainly going to finish second more often.
Whoever came up with this sheer fisting of an encounter can go fuck themselves. Do me a favor so I don't waste my guild's time on this kind of jackass shit-fest again, send me an email at tigole@legacyofsteel.net when you decide to A) Implement an encounter that wasn't designed by a retarded chimp chained to a cubicle A.)Get a Quality Assuarance Department C) Actually beta test the fucking thing and D) Patch it live. And please for god's sake -- do it in the order I laid out for you. Don't worry, I won't charge you a consulting fee on that one. And for good luck you might as well E) Pull your heads out of your asses. While you're at it rename the game to BetaQuest since you've used up you're alotted false advertising karma on the Bazaar and user interface scam of '01.Fix the Emperor encounter. Fix Seru. Rethink your time-sink bullshit. Fix all the buggy motherfucking ring encounters (I suggest you let whoever made the Burrower one do this since that dude apparently laid off the crack the rest of you were smoking). Fix the VT key quest. Fix VT (just guessing it's fucked up considering your track record). Don't have the resources to fix this stuff? Move the ENTIRE Planes of Power team over to fixing Shadows of Luclin AND DO IT NOW. If you don't fix Luclin, you jackassess will be the only ones playing the Planes of Power.
After 15 years I figured there is nothing new, no more innovations to be had. Man was I wrong. Limit flipped the game on it's head. Now if you're a world first chasing guild and don't have a raid leader not in the raid, a dedicated tactics person/people also not in the active raid you're a dinosaur. The out of raid support system used this tier was amazing. Well done.
What a trashcan of s boss fitting to end a trash expansion on this.
Method's progress in a nutshell :
https://twitter.com/vericavjeverica/...27986759315463
Yeah, you can say that. Players are optimizing the fun out of the game. Why the FUCK should we need an "external" person for this?
What's next?
I'll tell you:
-sponsored transmog for the top guilds, which you can buy for real money (armor AND weapons for a premium)
-dedicated, premium servers for the most competitive players, the rest of us suffer from (random? or Blizz-generated?) lags and crashes
-psychiatrists, coaches to make you feel on the top of the world before the race
-a team of LUA programmers who make WA's and customized addons for your team
-and, of course, like in FIFA, the game will be already p(l)ayed before the race, no real competition as companies that specialize in betting, advertising, etcetc are gonna "starve" if they let the race be clean
So, in a nutshell, WoW will became "just another" sports event, with lousy-greasy fans, maybe the fan camps will beat each other up? Hell yeah...
Although I root for METHOD I got huge respect for LIMIT. Congrats to LIMIT and NA for the 1st kill!
Some people here should learn about sportsmanship - on both sides! One should congratulate the opponent in defeat and on the other hand not be arrogant when winning. Look at Max's tweet: That's what I call a true sportsman and he deserves huge respect.
The future in WF-Races will most likely look a bit different (specially for METHOD):
For the next race I think that the raidleader(s) (i.e. mainly Scripe) should coach from outside, maybe there should be an entire team of people for WAs, strategy etc that are not playing on the "field". Like in most other sports, where the coach does give his instructions from the side.
Again gz to LIMIT, very well done.
2 hours left for method. Tick tock...