tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post146981346549107808..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: Playing In The Big Leagues : DCUOBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-2427399128773689372017-11-23T07:21:49.345+00:002017-11-23T07:21:49.345+00:00Wow...you got a group in an Alert that was actuall...Wow...you got a group in an Alert that was actually competant? My brother keeps telling me all the time about having to deal with people who can't follow simple on-screen prompts.Vulpishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09901630732729386834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-30071899140792774452017-11-21T18:50:28.976+00:002017-11-21T18:50:28.976+00:00I was very actively involved in guilds in DAOC and...I was very actively involved in guilds in DAOC and EverQuest from about 2000 to 2004, then in EQ2 from 2004-mid-2005. Then I went back to EQ and was in a guild on new server there. Most of those were what we used to call call "family guilds" back then - somewhere between 20 and 40 members - although the second DAOC guild was a lot bigger - the leading guild in its server/faction for most of the time I was in it.<br /><br />After that I went back to EQ2 and was in a guild there which changed the pattern because within a matter of what seemed like days after I joined the guildleader left and never returned. Mrs Bhagpuss and I ended up staying in that guild for around five years and it became our guild. I found I liked having control of the technical side of guilds so much that from then on I pretty much only ever made my own guilds.<br /><br />MMOs also changed around then to become hugely more solo oriented and most MMOs allowed you to create a guild with just one account. Even when they didn't, the F2P revolution meant I could just make enough accounts to meet the minimum requirement (did that in several MMOs).<br /><br />For the last decade Mrs Bhagpuss and I have co-led a guild that has the same name in every MMO we play. We occasionally invite other people we meet but the most I think we've ever had on the roster is about a dozen people. In GW2 we have just one other active member. In GW2, though, we also joined a 400+ member guild to do WvW - we've been in that one for several years.<br /><br />I have very ambivalent feelings about guilds. I really detest guild drama and I would be lying if I didn't own up to being the cause of some of it in my time. I definitely would prefer to go without a guild at all than to go through some of the situations I experienced in the past. These days the whole guild concept seems to be massively diluted from what it was a decade and more ago, though. I'm not sure if that kind of drama even happens any more.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-62480041915833288112017-11-20T20:14:33.667+00:002017-11-20T20:14:33.667+00:00I can't recall ever seeing you write very much...I can't recall ever seeing you write very much about being in a guild, other than the occasional mention of a time in the past where you were very much into group content - was it in Everquest? I kind of hope you stay and go on some more adventures with other people; I'd be curious to hear how it turns out.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.com