There's a lot of rumors that I left the day of the shit show in support of Eli and Finkone.
Truth is I had left SoE (not EPCG) a week prior to said shit show because members of the devolpment team were holding SoE hostage with threats they would bail if things weren't going their way. I've been in many communities where devs make these threats and no surprise it never ends well. When the threats were made I realized I was wasting my time.
Another reason I quit was because I realized we were never going to be able to unify the community. Ironically all the people on this "We not Me" movement are the people who were only here for their own personal gains and were against any form of unity outside of their cliques. Sadly that came to include both Eli and Finkone. We made our goals clear, we wanted to unify SoE and mend the divide. They wanted no part of that as their loyalties are clearly to money, not community.
Eli and Finkone had all but quit SoE long before they resigned. While I was the SM of SoE I hoped they would step up and help bring the sides together but they didn't. They would blow off admin meetings in which they said they would attend to go play games with their clique. I agree with many of Eli's complaints for quitting but I also believe he is being extremely hypocritical and many of his gripes were disussed in the very meetings he chose to ignore.
All that being said. I have no hate or anything like that towards them. I messaged Eli after all was said and done and wished him the best. He's never been my enemy and I respect the man for all he did and greatly enjoyed the old days gaming with him. Don't take this as me attacking them, I'm not. But there's different sides to the story than just Eli's take. I hope that clears some things up at least regarding my motives as everyone is stating "facts" out of pure conjecture and has thus far been incorrect.