Well I think Aleph is right, they will gain in the short but are in serious denial if they think that
1. we will take this lying down, which we’ve proven we will fight and hard.
2. our efforts of bad publicity won’t topple any effort on their part for damage control. Just doesn’t work that way. if enough people say you’re crooked, you’re crooked in the eyes of the people that matter, the public, their players and future players. And it won’t be telling any lies either. We’ll simply be telling the truth of the matter and I kid you not; the truth carries a lot of weight.
3. there will be a clear and distinct winner here. quite the opposite. both sides are going to lose and lose hard, and if they shit on us now, …. later, … when they try to smooth things over with us in a last ditch effort to save their business (as it is now) … ain’t nobody gonna be listening. There has just been too much BS and IF they want to have any chance at saving grace, they better do it now; in grand style; and without the slightest hint of putting a spin on how things are; we aren’t stupid, we don’t buy it; and aren’t going to forget if they insist on forging ahead with all this.
edited to add:
what you say Krystall just doesn’t make logical business sense to me. why not keep affs happy by staying honorable; keeping a great reputation (or used to be before all this anyway, from players pov) which then infers confidence in investors … the other way.. . well would you want to invest in a company known to cheat its partners? I think not.
and then go ahead and branch out. As Aleph put it; we are production based; if we don’t produce quality players, we don’t make money, but they definitely don’t lose money if we don’t bring in players, that part of their arguement is so out of the realm of reason its not credible enough to deserve response.
this whole thing just reeks with unprofessionalism and inexperience. Ask any respected business owner/leader in the real world whether its smart to do what RB has tried to do; and they would look at you as if you had NO clue as to how to run a successful business.
Due to times and circumstance; RB and others like them, have enjoyed a cushion of insulation from failure simply because their competition was just not there in any kind of recipe that could step in and take the reigns, but those days if not over, are very numbered. It would be wise to remember your friends because they will be the ones that make it possible to survive a bad run of things.
over-extending yourselves (by that i mean branching out) while at the same time bringing on yourselves a ton of bad publicity, is not a recipe for success. Trust me on that.