Why so many new guilds?

[Lojik]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

99% sure you are misremembering. There were twice the players on live servers; no way there were fewer guilds (except maybe for the 1-player guilds you see on p99).

There were twice the live players at any one time, but I bet the number of individuals who have logged on this server is at least triple that of any live server at any point during velious or before.

[Swish]

"Why should I be a small fish in your guild when you can be a small fish in mine?" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree though, too many really.

[chief]

why would I put my alt in a class C guild when I could just make a class R guild and get uncontested mobs? /tinfoil

[Argh]

With a rotation it's mostly pointless for guilds to exceed 30-40 players. From here on out people will be forming new guilds rather than joining existing ones.

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by Argh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

With a rotation it's mostly pointless for guilds to exceed 30-40 players. From here on out people will be forming new guilds rather than joining existing ones.

+1.

Also, from the perspective of the existing guilds, why add players? I know that The A-Team has a bit of a unique attitude there but BDA, Taken, AG, Europa etc already roll with 50. I would imagine at some point they would start restricting membership.

[Lojik]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

+1.

Also, from the perspective of the existing guilds, why add players? I know that The A-Team has a bit of a unique attitude there but BDA, Taken, AG, Europa etc already roll with 50. I would imagine at some point they would start restricting membership.

People come, people go. I don't really see too many guilds restricting membership.

[Ajkuhuun]

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.

[myriverse]

Not enough new guilds.

And chances are, that for every guild you remember on live, there were 10 guilds you don't remember.

[errorlvlacro]

With the recent changes in raiding and the influx of a couple hundred people or so it's not surprise to me that people are coming in and wanting to create their own guilds on this newly found server of theirs. I think the influx of people recently are enough to explain where they are coming from or they are people wanting alts in a new guild possibly that are having more downtime then they'd like in their main guild?

[phacemeltar]

i really enjoyed my time in Verite. this was a small group of players that was recruiting new members based on small-group needs for guild runs. there was no requirement for alts to be in guild, only requirement was that you had to be active or your spot would be filled.

sadly, Soloist had to quit playing for one reason or another, but we had some really great times as a group.

i think this is a great idea for a guild, having it be objective-based as opposed to being a social-club. the only issue is some players outlevelling others, and eventually being unable to group together.

unfortunately i think a primary focus of most players on p99 is getting to lvl 60 so you can join TMO/FB/BDA/etc.. therefore the 1-54 grind is irrelevant