I'm still not sure if this is for real. Let me present my point of view:
The game has a good combat system, where skill matters a lot.
The thing is, when you have fun shooting, and mastering your skills, that is often stopped by an guy with a shield.
Archery in M&B is good, it takes skill, it's fun, that's what you should focus on!!!
Melee combat in M&B is bad, and boring, and literally any noob with 0 skill can just take a shield and kill an archer player who spent thousands of hours playing this game.
People who want to use shields weapons can, and even should go play Mordhau or Chivalry, or any other Melee game. It's just objectively better for Melee.
These people don't want challenge, they don't want risk. They just want to hide behind a piece of wood and ruin other people's fun. They are cowards and noobs, who want to be away from fighting, be safe, and at the same time harass good players, by using weapon against which archers can't protect from, and which takes little skill to use effectively. They just want to win no matter what.
Ofc some shield fanboy who can't even shoot will say, that you can use 2H. But that's stupid to need to use 2H, and not be able to use a bow just because of these people, and it still doesn't stop them from killing you. Since shielders can charge from very far away, there often can be many shielders having different angles on you, and you can’t shoot around all of the shields (unless you are using hacks I guess?).
Also when you get away from them, they will just run back at you, and if you get engaged by someone else, then they will join, and hack at your back. You can't win.
Even medieval Japanese despised shields. Have you ever seen a samurai with a shield? BTW they were very proficient with bows and 2h katana
Oh, and don’t even get me started on Cav. They’re even worse.
Let’s sign petition to remove shields and cav from M&B. This is the only way I can play my class.
Also, I would like to issue one more petition. I would like to remove paper from Rock-Paper-Scissors for the same reason.
Thank you
Just In case it is for real, the release of private servers will help both sides.