Let me share a story with you. Yet another story relating to the existence and demise of a guild.
So as you know, if you have been keeping on my guild drama, that my guild recently lost a few members due to some loot decisions and generic guild attrition. But to quickly rebound, we merged with another group of players with similar achievements, gear levels, and some with their Bane of the Fallen King title.
So we changed our raid days to a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule and had a decent first week of raiding. The guild cleared 10/12 heroic in one night, killed heroic Sindragosa the next night, and started attempts on heroic Lich King. Everything seemed good. I tossed up a guild website with forums, recruitment status, among other things. walked the new officers through how to add news items, manage forums, etc.
I spent the day helping with a yard sale, playing the WoW TCG at my local shop, and even squeezed in some DnD before I logged on this evening for random activities. Then I tried to open my guild tab only to find it greyed out.
My next response was /who Resurgence.
0 players found.
/who so much damage.
That returned a few results. What the crap was going on. So I got a re-ginvite and then found out what went down. Apparently the guild/players we merged with had purchased their Bane titles, found a guild to merge with and then decided to ninja 80,000 gold, a few hundred flasks, and whatever else was in the bank. Then considering we had co-GMs, they decided to disband the guild and vanish from the server.
What the crap? What do you even say to that? So everyone who wasn’t in on stealing everything from the guild bank is back in “SO MUCH DAMAGE BRO” with our future once again hanging in the balance.
How do you prepare for something like that? How do you prevent that from happening? It was completely out of the blue. We have a ticket in with Blizzard to see what they will do about it since it was obviously a planned scam. All we can do now is wait.
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Holy douchebags Batman!
Hopefully Blizzard can track that down and authenticate the scam. It’s pretty amazing that people, in a game, would put that much time and effort into a long con just for gold and supplies for raiding.
Good luck getting that righted. Always remember the X-Files mantra: “Trust no one.”
I’ve seen a lot of posts about these guys, I was supposed to be in a Bane of the Fallen king run with Elderevil but nobody showed up. probably would’ve ninja’d my title =P
but ya my guild was actually going to merge with these guys cuz we transfered to illidan to find better raiders and progress again in ICC. Our G-leader figured something was fishy and told us all to leave his guild and rejoin our original guild. Nothing got stolen cuz of our G-lead thankfully. Keep spreading the word though these guys definitely aren’t who they say they are.
Wow, that’s just crazy. You can’t go around expecting things like that though, not without turning into a paranoid person who thinks green men from mars wants to have your babies too. My guild had an officer being hacked, and the hacker stole everything the guild had (since the officer had access to unlimited amounts of everything). After much work we managed to get much of it back from Blizz though.
It seems like you were spot-on in your earlier article about the general abandonment of guild loyalty. I was in a casual raiding guild for most of the duration of WotLK before I was caught up in guild drama. I was treated very poorly by some of the guild leadership after becoming a guild officer. I then moved to the top-ranked Alliance guild on my server – it only lasted a few weeks before the guild split up and went to various other servers and was essentially disbanded. Since then, I have been playing horde on a different server. I later discovered that the casual guild I used to raid with has been divided and all the more regular and accomplished raiders have started a new guild with some similar players from another struggling raiding guild.
I have been in many guilds, but most of them have been short-lived. It sometimes seems that I am the grim reaper of guilds. Most of the cases I have seen, guild demise comes from the top. It becomes an interesting social structure where people preserve some level of anonymity in a game environment, but true raiding requires a substantial investment of time and cooperation. Varying levels of commitment lead to guild conflict and, when things get really tough, it becomes much easier to throw in the towel than to put in all the effort of saving a struggling guild. Could it be possible to create a guild that was based on loyalty to a common goal first and on successes in game metrics second? If you can foster feelings of community and guild pride and give it priority over all other success (e.g. raiding achievements), that could be a guild to endure.
So, who wants to kick it old school?
They tried to get our guild before you guys. We actually gquit the guild we made and joined them… it was only a few hours before we went back to our original guild.
Holy crap!
It’s bad enough to think there are individuals out there doing evil shit, but group conspiracies? And they all happened to find each other?
Holy crap!
Wow… I’d be pissed! Good luck getting that resolved
No one can steal your gold in Starcraft. :-)
I’m really flabbergasted, this is like the hunter who ninjad Nefarian for Askhandi and his tier back in the day, gquit and sold his account… But to the 5th power…
Really hope you get this resolved, and really hope you get back on your feet.
Egad! Those miscreants deserve a proper thrashing!
I’m amazed at how much work they put into that. Hopefully you’ll get your stuff back and Blizzard will choose to make an example out of them.
We did end up getting all the gold back for the guild bank. Who knows if Blizzard took any personal actions against them though . . .