by Ivina » Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:13 am
I agree competition is a good thing, but if you want an answer to that specific question:
"why people get so defensive when Kronos gets mentioned."
Because most posts in which lies and insults were told about Nostalrius also contained advertisement for Kronos. If they didn't, they at least were posted by a well known Kronos fanboy. There are such posts almost every day. They get cleaned, but you can't ignore them if you read the forum quite often. Sometimes, people writing those posts really took a lot of time to make lies look true. Do you remember those videos "proving" Nostalrius was using bots? They have been proved hoaxes with some basic maths, but most players would not do maths when watching such videos.
That is not what I call competition! When each server displays bug fixes, and promotion video, that is competition. Spreading lies and insults in forum posts is not, it is just scumbag's stuff. That never made a single dev working faster. It never made Nos population leave either, but it is still very annoying.
The result now is that lot of people learned to associate those scumbag posts and posts/people talking about Kronos. They can actually be written by Kronos' most retarded fanboys, by Nostalrius players that are in a rage for any reason like jealousy or being banned, the result is the same, the association is made. Also, even if most Kronos followers aren't like that, the result is the same. Finally, even if Nos scumbag fanboys do the same on Kronos's forums, the result HERE is the same. As long as such posts are posted, people will get "nervous" when they see "Kronos" is mentioned.