It's interesting how little comment there is on the bullying side of things here. I am a fan of the squad and personally prefer watching Oshi7's stuff as he tends to be closer to the action rather than sniping which for me is vastly more entertaining. I am also a fan of Frankie's stuff, I do not care in the slightest if any of it is staged, edited, faked or any other term for good story telling because it is good story telling and is therefore entertaining. I think comparison between different play styles and different entertainment forms are entirely pointless and uninteresting. Those few statements aside back to the bullying issue. I personally believe Sacriel and his crew have the mob mentality associated with bullying and often act upon it, how much of this comes from the audience who yells for blood at all times is hard to say but it certainly doesn't help the matter. A couple of cases in point: On last nights stream before they stopped due to stream sniping, (totally ruins my viewing pleasure as does other forms of cheating) their six or seven man crew came across an unarmed individual on the island of Namalsk that has very very few weapon spawns and supplies in general, only really medical supplies that they had already heavily looted. Now this unarmed individual was merely "enjoying the view" but within moments one of the crew was saying how he wanted to execute the individual, for no reason more than he just really, really wanted to. After a few feeble attempts to sway the group away from this course of action from a few other members of the crew, the situation quickly deteriorated and mob mentality set in and the grenades came out. The individual was slaughtered for the entertainment of the group and the audience. Now this individual may have just spawned nearby or maybe he'd been running for the last half hour in the hope of finding supplies I don't know as no one asked the poor bastard. That shit looks like bullying to me and certain other members of the crew pointed that fact out. The night before Sacriel, on his lonesome, came across an unarmed player just outside a barracks. Sacriel went into said barracks upgraded his gun and removed all the ammo from the gun he left behind, so that there was no chance of this guy arming up instantly, before coming out and asking the poor guy if he'd heard of the Geneva convention to which the unarmed guy hesitantly replied yes, perhaps sensing what was coming, Sacriel promptly declared that he hadn't heard of it and then gunned the unarmed man down to the great pleasure of his audience. Now this is perhaps not bullying in the same sense but it was certainly a dickish move. A gentleman would have challenged the man to a duel. Sacriel was already in a much more favourable position, armed with his choice of weapon, able to find a decent position whilst the other armed up and quite clearly highly skilled and practiced at the game. Instead he chose just to slaughter. Now this is a zombie apocalypse simulator/game and in the apocalypse shit gets bad, shit gets all sorts of Lord of the Flies: the weak will be preyed upon by the strong and things will get strangely homo-erotic when predominatly males seemed to have survived. To speak of honour and gentlemanlyness in such times seems some what out of place, but the Englishman in me would hope for better of my countrymen during the end days. A fair fight should not be too mcuh to desire. To that end I would much rather see squad v squad action or at least action on a server where it is known that everyone is part of some faction or another that are certainly not friendly, not the rolling out on public servers hunting down individuals who really pose little to no threat to a squad greater than three people. The so called haters who are no doubt always going to hate are perhaps made up of individuals who do not roll in such large numbers when they play and have no defense against such squad tactics. Preying on the weak does not make for great entertainment in my eyes. Of course all of this is entirely my opinion based predominantly on what I want to see as entertainment. I find it greatly unfortunate that the masses would rather see the weak slaughtered but this is the society we live in. Delightful isn't it.
