User blog comment:Captain Ned Edgewalker/New kingdom... OF SARDINA/@comment-3242795-20130612200245/@comment-3242795-20130613152429

Look, if I left, there would be riots, basically. People would desert to Spain, others would just leave. I doubt Sven and Johnny would, but in the event they too left with me, most of England would leave or defunct to Spain. The majority of Spain, having no one to fight, would either leave or join an SvS guild, because they're frankly impatient. Pearson would either be stuck to his little devices in a corner of the Caribbean, or leave when he realized he had nothing. Guilds like "The Outlanders" and whatever the Swiss are would be stuck in their own little roleplay worlds, never quite rising to the top because all the good roleplayers who made it interesting deserted. Eventually the top dogs would be the SvS guilds, who would just fight amongst each other until eventually we're all back to step one. By this point, the new generation consoles would be out, along with new games like Elder Scrolls Online, drawing even more attention away from Pirates Online.

Let's face it. Between myself, Johnny, Sven, and Pearson... if any one of us were to leave, roleplay would literally rip at the seams, leaving it to basic tribal bickering with the SvS guilds.