And this has been a thought through a bunch of newcomers minds for years, and for years people berate said newbies for considering it, more often than not for selfish reasons.
But let's assume it's genuine. For arguments sake
It's needless to say, an amicable gesture, but it'll never happen. Ever.
While yes there was a statement about one never wanting to see threads pertaining to this, I feel that this needs to be said. I assure you there are no insults, or anything and merely a means to explain to any/all persons that wish to repeat this.
Before anyone gets in a tiff about why there cannot be ONE single company, allow me to elaborate.
The wrestling roleplay community is essentially divided into two factions
there's the created wrestlers (or CAW/create-a-wrestlers for those who are fixated on abbreviations and games) and the cosplayers which are essentially avatars impersonating already established wrestlers ones see on television, online, in magazines, etc.
The Created Wrestlers promote originality, the cosplayers are merely limited to the characters they portray. If they go beyond that boundary then they're not playing that character anymore.
Some people, usually 9 times out of 10 that are over the age of 16 prefer the 'CaWs', while those under prefer cosplaying.
And it's fine, there's nothing wrong with either or.
Now why is it that the two sides hate each other? Or rather why is there animosity. Well it can be broken down in a few ways
The Created Wrestler community is fixated on originality, and doesn't enjoy seeing their heroes that they grew up on, that they enjoy watching being bastardized in a role that children are playing.
Because there is only ONE Hulk Hogan, there is only ONE Undertaker, only ONE Austin, only ONE Sting and I can continue on and on and on again.
But when the created wrestler community watches things that the cosplay community does like
"Cena does an FU to Orton"
It's rather nerve racking to watch, because the created wrestling community puts emotions, details, hard work into each and every single thing they do.
Because THEY want to get noticed by their peers, they want to impress their peers with the things THEY do to achieve things that they couldn't do otherwise. Believing that chain wrestling is a thing, and can use multiple moves and combos to further their matches.
As far as the the cosplay community goes, to the created wrestling community it feels in the simplistic of terms 'lazy' because they're taking the easy way out, and doing it rather poorly for the most part. Descriptive entrances filled with graphics, but with lazy matches and stuff. Believing in only using one move at a time.
Needless to say that not all 'cosplay' wrestlers are bad, but more often than not they're just really terrible at their portrayals, their attitudes (not to say that the created wrestlers don't have that same problem) but one community is set in their ways, the other is set in theirs.
The cosplayers feel that 'they' are entitled to all the accolades, and all the glory because in quite all honesty they do not know better. They think because people like John Cena and Edge have all these transitional championship wins that 'they' themselves can get all of these championships, or the wins that are ridiculously easy to get in the video games without any effort, or all of these accolades that are given to them by their friends.
When they cannot get that from an established community where you have to earn everything, they act like spoiled children (and let's face it a great deal of them really ARE children), and they feel insulted when people don't want to give them that, they feel insulted when people see them as exactly what they are.
It doesn't mean they're being insulted but in hindsight it's like being told 'you have to earn your allowance, we're not giving it to you anymore'. Which all it really amounts to, and when they're told that it's bad insults, and all of that fun jazz being thrown back.
It doesn't mean there are 'shunning' going on, it doesn't mean we can't get along. It simply means that one community has been doing things for years and years, and they're set in their ways much like the others are.
Now what's this have to do with why their cannot be one single solitary community because I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that THAT will NEVER happen.
There will never be ONE wrestling company, ever. There's the WWE, NJPW, TNA, ROH, GFW, CZW, NWA, ROW etc.
Same principle applies here.
Allow me to reiterate, I saw an Evan Bourne cosplayer around, did you know that Evan Bourne that you cosplay as, the real life Evan Bourne was big as Matt Sydal in other places, in WWE he became a joke. Much like that person has a list of stars for abilities in his profile about his grammar, accomplishments, etc in his signature. While he might be 'hot s**t' in his guilds, in other places he'd be a jobber. It's sad but it's true.
In WWE, the man formally known as Derrick Bateman couldn't hack it in WWE he's in TNA as EC3 and in the main event of Slammaversary against Kurt ******** Angle.
Different wrestling companies are around because they cater to different audiences.
Different wrestling companies have been a staple since ******** hear people speak of 'territories', that's where people in the past went to hone their craft.
Without different wrestling companies the stars you know today, and yesteryear would never exist. Yes even your precious Cena's and Orton's, even your Hogans, your Flairs, your whatever wrestler you enjoy, they wouldn't exist without territories, without another option.
Without places to hone their crafts.
BBW for example excels at hardcore wrestling
EWA is more fantasy oriented and focuses more on the story telling, etc
WWF:G is good for developmental your characters, and is a mixed bag.
and that's simply just the main three around, not counting the others
One guild owner sees things in people that others do not, some prefer to push their friends, other prefer to push those who work hard and earn their shots.
The point is, and I cannot stress this point
There will never be ONE single entity wrestling company, ever.
EVER
It doesn't matter if created wrestlers and cosplayers get along or not,
there will ALWAYS be an alternative
ALWAYS
If there was only one company it certainly wouldn't be in the hands of children who cannot spell, who insult everyone and anyone that's not like 'them'.
Who has rules for their guild that's so convoluted, cookie-cutter, terrible, makes no feasible sense in the grand scheme of things
It would be in the hands of people who know what they're doing and people who will be overlooked, who won't get pushed and they'll create that alternative with the chip on their shoulder they have, else wise someone else eventually will. That's just how things are, have been and always will be.
Cosplayers don't want to conform to what the Created Wrestling community does, and vice versa.
It's about individuality ladies and gentlemen, not everyone being the same.
and I apologize for bashing your dreams or anyone else's dream of one single united guild but it's just not going to happen.
EVER
Period.
Even if there was a guild where Created Wrestlers and Cosplayers could face one another, and there have been before.
There always will be an alternative, whether you or anyone else likes it or not.
