I decided to make a new thread for this, mostly because I wasn't sure if Wish wanted to keep his retirement post about himself and not about the things he actually said in his post. But he got me thinking. No, not about he was one of the only, if not the only, to play one account. (-1 for a 1st. Classic.)

I noticed that the Story According to Wishbone seems to play out rather linearly. There's one team. Then there's two. Then there's more. What caused this expansion of teams? I'd like to think that’s just based upon community awareness.

Back when the Faz0r clan started teaming up at tables, no doubt they were the only ones. Seeing as they accounted for 10 of maybe 100 people playing the game in December 06, I'd say that had a decent monopoly. Most lost interest in the game. So enter rnd. What made rnd's original PGA so effective. IT WAS SECRET. No one knew about it. When you checked the forums, there’s rarely a mention of a pre-game alliance. It was all about scoring changes, bugs, random thoughts, even "higher thinking." It was a secret club that you had to be inducted into. Most of the community didn't know it existed, and, in a way, it was better then.

As the cabal inducted more members the concept of PGA began spreading. The other top players soon noticed and brought about the end to the original cabal. The difference was, this was done publicly. If you read the posts from May 2007 you will see that the secret was out. No longer was PGA restricted to a few people, now everyone knew about it and it was rampant. There were counter-PGA PGA's, Spanish cabals, blah blah blah. Read Wish’s post for more information.

Regardless, the old era of kdice was ushered out by this new information of what PGA was, how to do it, and everything else. And here we are today.

Am I advocating PGA? No. I am just trying to point out that when PGA became public knowledge, it changed the game. Should PGA have been kept a secret? Maybe, maybe not. Each camp has its own thoughts on the subject. However, no one can refute the fact that by making the knowledge of what a pre-game alliance is, and by thrusting it in everyone's faces was a pivotal moment for kdice.

I personally think that this dissemination of information was a bad thing for the community as a whole. Sure, it made everyone on a similar page, and got a lot of things out in the open. I believe however that it was toxic to the community. The wars of '07 were fun, engaging conflicts that only had digital outcomes. The wars of '08 are spiteful. They're becoming attacks on people’s personal lives. So if the cabal was still working in secret, would there have been a kdicefreak, Pat Whalen, Fiero600 as a moderator?

Once the secret got out, the world was turned upside down.