Quote Originally Posted by Infindox View Post
this is in no way the fault of the event creator.
Yes and no. That's what NA has a tough time grasping. If you were to talk in IRL situations, there is liability on the event organizer for safety precuations to make sure noone is harmed at the event, to make sure that event does not damage the city in some way, etc. etc. From an objective standpoint, we've had a year this didn't happen before, but, in Feri's defense, this didn't happen the last time they hosted an event. So it's an unintended circumstance that has, well, arguable foresight possible, because it was advertised/attended by people who have 5-10k+ followers on twitter so it was known it could cap, but people staying afterward is an unknown so that's person to person interpretation.

The main issue comes in the question of why the damage wasn't mitigated afterward. Does Feri have direct control over hundreds/thousands of people, no, but, they did support and like them enough to show up in the first place to make the event, so out of the same respect/admiration, you would expect a subset to listen to Feri to help mitigate the problem, or to use the giant collective audience of tens of thousands of people on twitter to come together and find a solution. You can create a discord with 2k+ people within a week and cap out 10+ syncshells, hosting giveaways and regular reminders to compress files, various ppl put all this effort into organizing and facilitating this event, but the effort is blank when Bismarck people have complaints. It comes across as a primarily organized and ran event by NA players, that are entitled to Bismarck's resources and do not care about natives. That's how it comes across. If people spent as much effort finding a way to break off/split the population instead of acting like problems didn't exist and attacking Bismarck players on twitter and bluesky, this topic would've already disappeared.