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devilnuker · May 25, 2009, 10:21 PM // 22:21

Ok so I was just watching Re-runs of Gameamp HD And they were showing the Guild Wars Factions Championship and Guilds like Idiot Savants, War Machine, The Last Pride and Treacherous Empire were all competeing. Do any of these guilds still exist and if they dont what happened. Just Curious

RotteN · May 25, 2009, 10:27 PM // 22:27

The game got old and boring, and Anet stopped hosting major events.

That happened.

notskorn · May 25, 2009, 10:33 PM // 22:33

Factions Championship was the last championship... that's what happened

devilnuker · May 25, 2009, 10:34 PM // 22:34

Why was it the last?

[DE] · May 25, 2009, 10:36 PM // 22:36

Why did Te disband?

Be Koss...

I pwnd U · May 25, 2009, 10:54 PM // 22:54

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Originally Posted by devilnuker

Why was it the last?

Because no others came after it. Duh.

Brett Kuntz · May 25, 2009, 11:02 PM // 23:02

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Originally Posted by devilnuker

Ok so I was just watching Re-runs of Gameamp HD And they were showing the Guild Wars Factions Championship and Guilds like Idiot Savants, War Machine, The Last Pride and Treacherous Empire were all competeing. Do any of these guilds still exist and if they dont what happened. Just Curious

I am not sure why everyone quit, but it was probably a mixture of real life catching up to us and the game was going downhill from the addition of more skills. I still hang around and talk to Te, iQ, & EvIL members, we're all patiently waiting for GW2 to come out, and playing other games in the mean time. A lot of EvIL had to go into the mandatory Korean army training too.

turbo234 · May 25, 2009, 11:23 PM // 23:23

Well I know vD had too much to handle with in real life so they disbanded, EvIL of course had the army training, and I'm sure alot just stopped playing from boredom and disbanded.

Antares Ascending · May 25, 2009, 11:24 PM // 23:24

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Dunno about the others but EVIL ( The Last pride ) had life happen. Several players were called for military service and tho they kinda got back ,they never made it to the levels of competition they once had. Again..life,families happen.

devilnuker · May 25, 2009, 11:28 PM // 23:28

Anyone know what happened to iQ?

DreamWind · May 26, 2009, 12:55 AM // 00:55

Shouldn't most of Evil be out of training by now? Slayers Boxer (of SC fame) went in the military after the Factions Championship and is already out.

But yea...most of these people quit the game, probably because the game went down hill after that tournament. Its good to watch the height of the game though.

Brett Kuntz · May 26, 2009, 01:05 AM // 01:05

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Originally Posted by DreamWind

Shouldn't most of Evil be out of training by now? Slayers Boxer (of SC fame) went in the military after the Factions Championship and is already out.

But yea...most of these people quit the game, probably because the game went down hill after that tournament. Its good to watch the height of the game though.

But what is the point? The $100,000 tournaments and paid trips are all over. For most people, videogames and competitive gaming is fun between 18-25, then real life takes over. GW has been out for over 4 years, people grew old, graduated Uni/College, etc.

laurana half elf · May 26, 2009, 01:13 AM // 01:13

Yes the members of [evil] are all currently out of the military i believe. The problem is to come from a competitive level that they were at before they left, and then to come back to an almost completely new game is extremely difficult. They reformed [evil] with most of their core a while back and i remember watching them on obs mode and just seeing them get destroyed over and over.

I think danjang still plays, as well as last of master but no where near the competitive level they used to play on.

Soul wedding no longers plays gw if i'm correct.

[DE] · May 26, 2009, 01:26 AM // 01:26

Breakdown of EvIL after the Championships:

EvIL was on hiatus while most members took part in the mandatory military service required in Korea.

Mid-to-Late 2008, EvIL came back, formed The Return with old EvIL and WM members. Only some of the old core completely returned. Some players, including Soul Wedding, were no longer in the military, but still did not play.

The Return struggles as they were in a completely new meta and pretty rusty at the game. Never managed to break top 100.

Then they were extended an invite to take part in the Aion korean beta, which they accepted, and left Guild Wars for.

Sunho, one of the better English speakers in the guild said this about The Return leaving for Aion:

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when we start play together, we did not have korean player base to come back to, and many of us did not know top pvp from europe/america to practice with, or get caught up on game style change. Anet supported us alot in the beginning, but that support faded. with other ncsoft games eager to build a player base, specifically aion which has launched a korean beta and invited our whole team to participate. many of our players question a reason to play this game. i do not see the 3 month come back happening. so in short, article wasn't an interview, just written. we acknowledge the shift in the game, and if aion stops being fun to play than guildwars, we may adapt to current game style.\ If any further questions arise, we will answer as best as possible. Thank you for support given, it is nice to see encouragement/criticism alike as korean guildwars community is no longer exist.

Danjang is the only core EvIL member that still regularly plays Guild Wars.
And, as far as I know, EvIL is still playing Aion and they plan to come back for GW2.

Eragon Zarroc · May 26, 2009, 02:25 AM // 02:25

yeah, it's too bad. they should have continued with the major tournaments despite the MaT's would of been cool to have nightfall and eotn championships. fill gtob with some more trophies.

Divine Ashes · May 26, 2009, 04:14 AM // 04:14

Yeah, I've seen Danjang quite a few times guesting for a rank 200-300 on observer...

He was playing warrior, but he's still a beast lol.

notskorn · May 26, 2009, 04:29 AM // 04:29

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Originally Posted by Eragon Zarroc

yeah, it's too bad. they should have continued with the major tournaments despite the MaT's would of been cool to have nightfall and eotn championships. fill gtob with some more trophies.

They probably decided the cancel the tournaments when they made the decision to stop releasing expansions every 6 months and focus on GW2. They must've just figured that they wouldn't have $100k to give away on a Nightfall championship.

Michael805 · May 26, 2009, 05:25 AM // 05:25

They thought they could make more money on PvE than PvP, and stopped marketing towards PvP (if they ever actually did in the first place).

Thus we got games like Nightfall and EoTN, and all was lost.

i farm baddies · May 26, 2009, 10:15 PM // 22:15

few ppl from te left and formed rawr right? and i think i heard rumors of some of those old guilds playing in a rank 300 guild not gonna name it cuz im probly wrong lol

Snow Bunny · May 26, 2009, 10:21 PM // 22:21

They're dead and gone.