Order of the Blue Garter: Open Recruitment Season

[carraway]

Your not? that's an odd convincdence then why did you pick that name?

Our LS was founded by old-school members of BG from back in the XI days, along with some BG-WoW dudes, and fresh blood from Rabanastre/Durandal.

[heit]

While I did laugh at the Jehovah's Witness analogy, if you think having an application for an endgame linkshell is a joke I can assure you they likely don't care that they won't be receiving an application from you. Nor do I see the point of announcing the fact that you aren't sending one in. That's about as asinine as this post being in the General Forums.

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It was meant to be a part of the picture in a way... you know how you tell them "I'm sorry but I'm just not interested"?

I suppose it was naive of me to comment using my opinion, but I have yet to see any justifiable reasoning that I (or indeed anyone) should go through a recruitment process similar to a job application, for a game I (they/we) pay money for. This however is a separate topic and I apologize for such a childish notion.

[Twentytwo]

We had a good amount of OG BG members at FFXIV release that went to WoW with us from 11 and then came to 14 from WoW, we kept the name because the leader of OG BG also came with us and we more than had the right to, considering it was us that formed the LS in 11. The neobg forums are called neobg because they're maintained by new members of BG, not the original ones that went to WoW after we were done with 11.

The Bulls, or any team still call them selves The Bulls, despite people quitting, being traded, or retiring etc. Same concept.

[Zumi]

Are the BG mods like Sonomaa and Rocl in your LS or is that the new BG?

[Zenaku]

I remember BG from being on Bahamut way back in the day. Way, way back. It was never anything more than elitism, drama, and shitting on the parades of players who weren't on their level; most specifically, super elitism.

Anyone who joins them in this stage of the game is out of their depth. Rofl.

lol I remember them from Bahamut also there was lot of funny times with that ls lol.

[Twentytwo]

Are the BG mods like Sonomaa and Rocl in your LS or is that the new BG?

Rocl was at 14 launch, but he doesn't play much at all anymore.

Sonomaa was part of BG just as we were changing to WoW so he didn't keep too much in touch with us, not sure what he's up to.

[KumaAkuma]

Only one Roegadyn in your shell. What's up with that? D:

[Gukswar]

It's troling time!

[Zozor]

Only one Roegadyn in your shell. What's up with that? D:

I'm just a social member. Really the number's more like 0. ô¿ô

[HiroSeven]

Our intention wasn't to say we're the best, or to brag about any 1st kill. Our intention is to bring awareness to players out there who may play a lot and want to maximize the efficiency of their playtime in a serious and goal oriented manner. We don't want to waste anyone's time, so we try to do things in game correctly, everyone has lives to live and responsibilities to take care of, might as well do things well in game.

This is... an admirable post and a fantastic way to identify your intention. If this is 'truly' your intention then I would join very quickly as I'd like to become a more efficient player with my limited play-time; which of course stems from maintaining the priorities in my life. However, I have observed/heard of an equal amount of commendation as bigotry from your linkshell which puts me in a neutral position.

I haven't been on FFXIV for too long, but when there, I've spent my time in the Rabanastre/Durandal server which was semi-random choice for me; but turned out to be a great one because of the great people I have found there (some from this LS, and some not). Members of this LS have personally helped me with in game content a few times and I have been grateful for it. Similarly I have been grateful for the aid of various strategies in order to make myself more efficient. Yet members from an LS with such prominence and with such claims of professionalism would not commit such acts as, and for example, publicly posting a denied/failed application in order to ridicule fellow gamers... as that is simply non-prominent and non-professional.

Yes: I would like to become more aware, I would like to become a more efficient player, but I do not want my characteristics as a human being to suffer as a result.

Having said that, I fully appreciate your intentions, look forward to your forthcoming contributions, and wish you well in your recruitment process.