2014-03-01, 12:13 PM
That Astral Guardian program is a joke. They didn't pick anyone this month.
From what I heard, Louvain, Zeus, and myself were considered this month. But all of us were ultimately disqualified because we were all known for playing kDN or cDN. Nevermind the fact that we actually share whatever we find with the community, compared to the other chuckleheads who advocate abandoning NA for cDN, or say that because cDN doesn't IP block people, everyone should go there if they want to keep up with the people practicing raids in it beforehand. I even wrote a guide on the Dragon Jade system, which is something that replaces DN's potential and suffix system with something that is FAR more user-friendly. Louvain and I didn't even start playing kDN until half a year ago, while I'd been doing my usual routine on the NA forums for the entire past two years.
All of us were more notable than the first guardian last month, who was a closet cDN player, is commonly known among the community to have been a gold buyer in her early days, and all she really did around the time Nexon crowned her the first Astral Guardian was host a fan contest on the forums. The last of which is also something Louvain started before the Astral Guardian program was revealed, and much more.
Also: Nexon banning fanart commissions requesting gold for payment this week. High likelihood that it's not really their fault, some lawyers from Shanda/Eyedentity probably noticed what was going on within the NA forums. Whatever the case, everyone that was mildly happy prior to all this was stirred up into a hornet's nest this week.
From what I heard, Louvain, Zeus, and myself were considered this month. But all of us were ultimately disqualified because we were all known for playing kDN or cDN. Nevermind the fact that we actually share whatever we find with the community, compared to the other chuckleheads who advocate abandoning NA for cDN, or say that because cDN doesn't IP block people, everyone should go there if they want to keep up with the people practicing raids in it beforehand. I even wrote a guide on the Dragon Jade system, which is something that replaces DN's potential and suffix system with something that is FAR more user-friendly. Louvain and I didn't even start playing kDN until half a year ago, while I'd been doing my usual routine on the NA forums for the entire past two years.
All of us were more notable than the first guardian last month, who was a closet cDN player, is commonly known among the community to have been a gold buyer in her early days, and all she really did around the time Nexon crowned her the first Astral Guardian was host a fan contest on the forums. The last of which is also something Louvain started before the Astral Guardian program was revealed, and much more.
Also: Nexon banning fanart commissions requesting gold for payment this week. High likelihood that it's not really their fault, some lawyers from Shanda/Eyedentity probably noticed what was going on within the NA forums. Whatever the case, everyone that was mildly happy prior to all this was stirred up into a hornet's nest this week.