The fallacies in that post are astounding.
And I see you have not mentioned any of them because they are so obvious.
I think maybe you should play at an event or two at BG. It's like you're summing up things other people have said and then inserting your thoughts like they're group consensus, when to my knowledge you haven't participated in anything with this group in person in at least two years.
There is a reason for that, and it's been pretty obscured by the fact that everyone seems to think I am just some intruder instead of a person looking to reconnect and get things back to where I enjoyed them.
Since I came to this forum, the discussions wildly alternate between referencing the whole game as it ever existed EVERYWHERE and the bubble in which BG playerbase exists anyway. It's very effective because at any time I make a perfectly valid statement folks can just bring up that I haven't been there in a minute and discard it.
I log in, see people discussing about some aspect of the game or event planning or what have you...then I offer my thoughts on those very same things everyone else is talking about, and people get all like "Whoa bro what issues? What complaints? Who do you think you are? You don't play here, you don't know."
Like I said before: I am a semi-competitive player who used to come to the events, and stopped. Isn't the opinion of that sort of guy what you want/need? And even if not...what, so everyone else gets to generalize about the game and be given the benefit of the doubt, but I don't?
If you get nothing else about me, this is the one thing to take away: I care about THE GAME, not the store. And THE GAME needs some sensibly-run, inclusive, FUN local events. Battleground events are the centerpiece of the local event scene (or were, anyway). I want that back. I want a reason to support this store instead of avoid it (or worse, convert people away from supporting it, which would frankly be easier at this point than trying to be helpful). It is the ONE thing I can't do with my own club, because it is just too much work for one person. This means, other than the odd Pandemonium or Dorka Morka event, there pretty much are none other than BG's. So why wouldn't I legitimately want to try and be helpful?
Regardless, playing there before means nothing going forward; on May 24th, we're all newbies again (I wonder if my opinion will be considered any more or less legitimate at that point). I know nobody cares about my opinion, but my last word on the subject regardless is this:
A new edition is a clean slate, and people shouldn't waste that opportunity.
