I may be naïve about the political games that people play but here is my take. Firstly, I’m a foot soldier, not a leader, and I used to be in Phobia but recently moved over to Who Cares. I had several reasons for this move:
1. Lack of confidence in the Phobia leadership, which publicly and regularly conducted too much in fighting. This instability with the leadership was very concerning for a foot soldier like me. I want to be part of a strong and stable alliance.
2. The very successful op that the Bloods put on Phobia left a bad taste and instead of reprisal, Phobia capitulated into a pact with the Bloods that felt more like a merge. Though it was not an official merge, it seemed to me that Phobia had accepted terms that now made them look second fiddle. After the Bloods op, several Phobia players left this server world suffering from what I would call “hemophobia.”
3. After the bloody nose from the Bloods op, Phobia still reeling, decided to go ahead with a scheduled op against another alliance, it was a poor decision with really bad timing and in my opinion a very unsuccessful op. I started to lose faith with the leadership’s vision at this point.
4. However, my main concern was how cliquish Phobia is. Some players got support all the time, others like me got no support. This is very disheartening, and made me feel alienated, an outsider.
5. Lastly, after having several conversations with another Phobia player, I knew that I was not alone with these thoughts. When a group of Phobia players broke away, I was asked to join them.
For these reasons, I decided that Phobia is not an alliance that I wanted to be a part of anymore. Personally, I have nothing against the Bloods; their leadership is solid and their op strategies very sound. I have much respect for their leadership and organization and would have had no problem joining them, had I been invited. Once I decided to leave Phobia, I quickly contacted the leadership to be removed from their ops chat room. This was not a move that I had planned as I don’t like to jump from alliance to alliance, but when I was contacted, it felt right and made sense. Being part of a strong alliance is what is important to me.