WoW Drama. Yay.
Rave: Patch 3.2.2! Onyxia's back!
... Onyxon? Arrrruuu!
Rant? I just want to grouse about WoW drama. This is my guild lately: struggling to get the people together for 10s and raids falling apart if just one person has to go or has technical difficulties. And outside of raid nights (MTH 6:45 to ~11+ server), it's been a ghost town lately. There's three 80s, or one of the 80s, his sister, and her fiance, who granted are in Outland and maybe almost to Northrend, online. Everyone else is playing Aion. So there's no real guild chat (unless you want to hop into the Vent channel where everyone's on Aion 'cause they all made their own hilariously badly named guild there), and no one much to do anything with in-guild - can't even really muster a group for the daily heroic.
It's a dysfunctional, dead guild that keeps shambling on like some sort of zombie.
I could probably get a position in a more functional guild like *snaps fingers*, but this is my guild. I was one of the charter members and've been an officer since day one. Even though I've been a dissenting voice on most of the rules and the prevalent slightly leadership->member antagonistic attitudes in the guild, it's my guild, it's fun, and it's a point of pride. It wouldn't feel right to be on the server and not be a part of it. Besides, I'm top dps and we struggle with membership, I'd kind of shaft the others, many of who are friends, if I left.
But on the other hand, what really are the benefits of staying? It does have a nice raid schedule and a mostly good (occasionally asinine to the point of wall-bangingly frustrating) raid attitude, and good atmosphere WHEN PEOPLE ARE AROUND... I dunno.
I think I'll be leaving, at the latest, when someone skips raid to stay on Aion. We already stopped raid early last night and, if not for aion, everyone'd jumped ship to play over there PDQ.
I wanted to kill Arthas with these friends; but I seriously doubt that'll ever happen.
If they have more fun on Aion than WoW, that's fine! I'm not saying they should stick it out. Just that we're a zombie guild, and despite needing people I cannot, in good faith, recruit into this environment.
... Onyxon? Arrrruuu!
Rant? I just want to grouse about WoW drama. This is my guild lately: struggling to get the people together for 10s and raids falling apart if just one person has to go or has technical difficulties. And outside of raid nights (MTH 6:45 to ~11+ server), it's been a ghost town lately. There's three 80s, or one of the 80s, his sister, and her fiance, who granted are in Outland and maybe almost to Northrend, online. Everyone else is playing Aion. So there's no real guild chat (unless you want to hop into the Vent channel where everyone's on Aion 'cause they all made their own hilariously badly named guild there), and no one much to do anything with in-guild - can't even really muster a group for the daily heroic.
It's a dysfunctional, dead guild that keeps shambling on like some sort of zombie.
I could probably get a position in a more functional guild like *snaps fingers*, but this is my guild. I was one of the charter members and've been an officer since day one. Even though I've been a dissenting voice on most of the rules and the prevalent slightly leadership->member antagonistic attitudes in the guild, it's my guild, it's fun, and it's a point of pride. It wouldn't feel right to be on the server and not be a part of it. Besides, I'm top dps and we struggle with membership, I'd kind of shaft the others, many of who are friends, if I left.
But on the other hand, what really are the benefits of staying? It does have a nice raid schedule and a mostly good (occasionally asinine to the point of wall-bangingly frustrating) raid attitude, and good atmosphere WHEN PEOPLE ARE AROUND... I dunno.
I think I'll be leaving, at the latest, when someone skips raid to stay on Aion. We already stopped raid early last night and, if not for aion, everyone'd jumped ship to play over there PDQ.
I wanted to kill Arthas with these friends; but I seriously doubt that'll ever happen.
If they have more fun on Aion than WoW, that's fine! I'm not saying they should stick it out. Just that we're a zombie guild, and despite needing people I cannot, in good faith, recruit into this environment.