Looking for a bit of friendly advice

[selliebean]

So, my once full and thriving guild has slowly been brought down to only 2-3 people who log in once in awhile besides my fiance and myself, and since I'm tired of looking at a guild roster full of, essentially, "dead bodies" I'm trying to decide what to do

Comments

[caixarelato]

I've done the Option C myself. I definitely wouldn't get rid of a lvl 25 guild just POOF and gone...if anything, you can do a combination of A and C, move your higher toons somewhere else and keep the guild for storage or something.

[selliebean]

I am very strongly leaning toward option A, I must admit. Being a founding member of this guild and the only person left from the original group (and all on my mage, who is still my main and current GM) I don't like the thought of leaving what has been my home for almost 3 years just because these people decided to ditch us for greener pastures.

[jurassicsnark]

I vote for option A. If no one is logging in, they're essentially not in the guild anymore, anyway, and you've got all the L25 guild perks. Kick the dead weight, and try to recruit some new members.

I didn't think option B would work; doesn't whoever takes over as GM have to be logged in to accept the role? (Maybe this has changed in a recent patch, haven't tried this myself).

[selliebean]

Option B does work, believe it or not. I did it with my brother and his old guild that he dumped on me once upon a time, let his account lapse, and then I wanted to delete the toon he dumped GM on so I gave it back to him lol

[archangelbeth]

I'd pick a variant on Option A. Depending on people's college schedules (and finances), it may be that some of them will show up again. (I've been known to do nothing but check my mail in a month, depending on what Real Life is doing to me. *sigh*) Designate a guild level for the deadweight (that doesn't have bank access...), move everyone's mains into it, and kick the alts. That gives you a tidier list, and leaves opportunity for people to come back on and not be entirely out in the cold.

[selliebean]

This is what I had already done. Thing is, I have these people on my RealID, I know that they're still playing, and moving them down to initiate status didn't do anything because they'd log into their shiny new guilds and play but never bother with the toons they left in our guild. I did leave a few people who I don't have on RealID and therefore don't know what they're doing, but I believe I just kicked at least half the guild. Sad day.

[archangelbeth]

O:(

At least you have a tidier guild list. Good luck with the recruitment!

[selliebean]

Thanks =) I'm not sure we'll bother recruiting much for the end of this xpac, but hopefully we can pull some interest before the next one comes out.

[rhicat]

If I were in your position I do a combination of A/C: dump the dead weight and keep the guild for myself on an alt GM, either to rebuild as I see fit and possibly look for a new guild for my main. (Depending on what your game goals are.)

[selliebean]

We were originally just a social guild started by myself, my brother and a handful of RL friends. Life got in the way and out of everyone who started the guild, I am the sole surviving member. We tried recruiting and raiding for a little while, but real life here is hectic and unpredictable, so setting a raid time that wasn't just one night a week was impossible. I understand that people want to raid, I understand that my ability to attend/lead the raids changed, and I understand and encouraged people to find a new home to raid if that was what they wanted. Had it not been for all the promises of "We'll still be around! This is still my main! I still care about you!" this would be so much easier. I'm thinking that going back to a small, social guild of only people I actually know might be best for us at this point in time.

[rhicat]

There is nothing wrong with raiding once per week. All of my guilds were casual raiding (3 hrs/week) and until the upheaval of this expansion played havoc with our rosters were downing bosses in current content.

To play devil's advocate for a moment, they might have been sincere in their promises to stick around. MoP has been extremely discouraging toward alts. In any case its clear they've moved on and its time that you and your guild do so as well. Best of luck to you!

[cear_in_azeroth]

Am I crazy for not understanding how they're "dead weight" exactly? They aren't pulling the guild down any, they just aren't logging on and sorry but if you're this bitter over that, I can see why maybe they *did* move on in the first place. As someone who cannot play the game right now for a bit, I would be pretty upset to log on to my guild I've been with for 2 years and find that in a bitter rage I was booted. How do you know they've "moved on to greener pastures"? Do they still log onto their mains and you see that they have? Are you sure some of them literally just cannot play right now and if you were really their friend you'd be understanding of it? I honestly don't care if this is out of line, I guess I'm a smidge confused, esp considering you admit you sound bitter (because you are).

[ghosts]

I have to agree here being in both the same position as the OP and the one being booted.

[selliebean]

Every single one of them on my Real ID is on every single night. I send them whispers and my whispers are ignored. I wasn't at all bitter with any of them for moving on to find raiding guilds when my real life made it so our raid team fell apart, however this being completely shut out at every attempt I make in keeping in contact with my so-called "friends" is very frustrating and hurtful. To be honest, I expected a comment like this, so thanks for not disappointing me. None of them even tried to be understanding when our real life fell apart and took us away from the ability to raid with them, they all just left. And that's fine. But it's been the constant promises of "I'm still here for you!" and then being nothing but ignored even when I reach out to simply say hello or answer a request for help that they put out over Real ID. I really don't care what anyone has to say about how bitter I seem over this. Being ditched by people you thought were your friends during a time in your life when you could use friends more than ever sucks.