Speaking for myself, the reason that I formed my own guild is because I felt that the current guilds didn't quite have what I was looking for. I needed a guild with absolutely no commitment, where folks could log on after a month break and still have a tag, where folks completely understood how having a young child, or job which may call you in spur of the moment, or spouse can really affect your gameplay, where most of them got whatever weird retro reference I was referring to. That wasn't just for me, I wanted to be surrounded by people in similar situations, folks with severely limited or sporadic playtime, not just a few folks that would identify while the rest of them just plain don't understand.
I'm here for the community, if I see my epic one day, fabulous, if not oh well. The folks I'm guilded with feel the same way, because they were after a niche community as well. It works for us.
And yes there are some really great guilds out there, in fact quite a few have reached out to us as a fledgling guild offering discount services for folks new to the game, etc. Amazing guilds out there, there just wasn't one that quite met my needs at this time in my life.
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