For what it's worth, I think this entire episode has been bad form from the GM, and horrible form from these guilds (I have to stop myself from judging people just because they're tagged now; I have no idea what I will do when I hit 50 and want to raid, it seems there is no alternative to utter douchebaggery atm).
However... here's the thing: noone owes us anything on this server. The GMs and the Devs are doing it all for free. If they want to run a douchbag dictatorship (not saying they are, this is hyperbole), they can. We are guests here.
So, in the end, all there is to do is to suck it up and continue, or leave. We do not have any claim to anything, least of all our characters which live on their servers.
BTW, this has been a really instructive episode for me as a dev myself. Players pay not just to play, but to have rights to a certain type of play. I didn't understand this before; I do now.
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