Holy Christ Darth and Yawg look like some real toolbags. The thing is, it's not even that their position is a bad one. It would be pretty easy to say look, we want Efreeti Cycle, our goal has been to kill all this shit first and since we don't have DBG enforcing anything anymore, we'll work through it and step aside or we'll race for it if anyone wants to step up. Sorry if you don't understand. Done.
The Ion shit is just retarded. They've been around for a long time.
The New Adventures of Minnus TheBear(Lockjaw) - Episode 5 - YouTube- this dude was streaming videos in like June and was a member. They were also around on Fippy as Ion. Not sure if that's who that dude was talking about, but the people I know in the guild were never involved with Citizen -
Everquest Eye of Veeshan Kill - YouTube
IBNYA is also the Almar guide dudes guild -
Empty- I don't know shit about it, but I also doubt it's involved with MM much.
FI really does have this tinfoil hat level of paranoia when it comes to MM. Some toolshed named Lilmez went so far as to hold a fucking Elite gobs group hostage for having MM members in it with his mage army.
My interaction with most FI has always been great and I am sure most are nice people who would like to be equitable (or at least benevolent overlords) but god damn it's like all of the sudden the leadership has lost all perspective. Yawg was nice enough to shit on the small guilds and call them "not relevant" or whatever. Which is fine, but hey remember that smaller guilds are hungry and if it becomes the wild wild west it would be pretty easy to put together a squad to contest FI. And the smalls wont be the ones opening up their wrists because they lost their precious 16 year old pixels.
edit: I have no bias from any prior progression server and I'm fairly certain Dima is among the top ranks of the EQ-is-srs shitlords. I guess I don't understand why it's downright impossible for top-tier EQ guilds to take the high road.