WoW Ramble

[omimouse]

Sooo, there is drama going on with folks that I am friends with through WoW. Namely, my guild. Before anyone trots out the 'just a game', yeah, I know. These are also folks that I talk with, both in guild chat and over TeamSpeak. Anyone who has ever been a Callahanian should know by now that online friend does not equal 'not a real friend'.

So, dealing with a guild split that happened because the previous guild master felt that someone harassing a guildie (to the point of sending her nasty PMs and calling her the 'guild whore') was not as important as the fact that he could tank . . . Yeah, that.

You play nice, and you play at least civily, when you play with The Forgotten. Or you don't play with us. In our case, he got all . . . something because most of us felt that the family we'd built in the game was more important than the game. So the previous GM split, taking about 20-25 folks with him.

This wouldn't have bugged me this much if I didn't actually care about the folks involved. This guild is currenlty a major part of my social life, just because I talk with them about so much. And, other than my LJ friends-list, it's also the closest feel to alt.callahans that I've found anywhere.

On a good note, the drama seems to be blowing over. And I have several friends that really do remind me of the a.c. family that I never would've met without WoW. So, overall, more good stuff than not.

And the fact that this is currently the major drama in my life at all says very good things about where my life is right now.

Comments

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

I went through that kind of guild implosion on one of the RO servers I played on... sadly, that one echoed so deeply that the entire server was offline a week later. The dangers of private servers.

When I moved on to Guild Wars, I (guildmistress) was extremely careful as to who got invited to BotR; the result was a tiny little guild that went absolutely nowhere... and the family splintered, because we were having to spend so much time in PuGs to get things done. I still play, intermittently, but I think I'm the last Rose'r that's left. *sigh* This ranks very high on the list of reasons why well meaning subbie cabbits should NOT run guilds. But anyway...

When I joined WoW, i was literally sucked directly into the guild that the folks who'd shanghied me were involved with. I discovered that I knew about a third of the folks RL here in Maryland; they were all folks I'd been doing tabletop gaming with over the years. The rest were folks they'd met and befriended out in Missouri... and they all turned out to be quite friendly. As a result, I've never set foot outside of the Khaz Modan server (never -needed- to), and all but 1 of my toons belongs to either Dead Peasants Society or to Undead Peasants Society. To a one, they're damned fine people... and I've seen what happens when someone hassles one of our people. While we're not a large guild, it can get quite nonpretty. :p To be honest, it's the first gaming guild I've -ever- belonged to that wasn't chin deep in melodrama; I'm still not sure how to handle it sometimes. I'm praying that it stays that way, since I've really had my share of it.

*peers* I ran as BorrElle in alt.callahans for -ages-. I've been away so long now I don't even remember why I left. Somehow, I'm not surprised to find another echo there with you. I knew there was something about you...

Yay for drama blowing over. *hugs* And lovie, if you ever need even a momentary break, holler at Celainne, BorrElle, or Hyatt over on Khaz Modan (alliance side, I don't use my horde toons much). I'll be happy to curl up and chatter. :) Or get us both killed. There's a -reason- my priestess is named 'Hyatt', you see...

*smooch*

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

Previous GM and the default 'main healer' decided that we weren't 'progressing raids fast enough', so they left, taking the afore-mentioned 20-30 folks with 'em. The part that really sucks about this was that after they went to all this trouble to split, they seem to be billing themselves as exactly what The Forgotten is. Namely, a friendly, laid-back guild. Well, there is the matter of the 3 raids a week requirement that they have . . .

We seem to be getting our feet back under us, at least so far. I'm just still in the stage of 'but why the ever-lovin' hell did the leave?' I tend to get like that when friends move away and such.

I return the offer of coming over and saying hi. Thorium Brotherhood: Lovisa, Omimouse, Wyldsong, Junneuax. Though, Lovisa might very well be distracted for the next bit; she's decided that Commander is easier than rounding up 800 or so gold, at least as far as an epic ram goes.

[elialshadowpine]

"Well, there is the matter of the 3 raids a week requirement that they have . . ."

Eww. That's not a "laid-back" guild. That's a normal requirement for a progression-focused guild. Not that it's a bad thing, but at least be up-front about it. *sighs*

Unfortunately, WoW guilds are very often worse than LJ for drama. I'm glad that mine happens to be mostly "drama-free." We've had a incidents where a good number of people left to either form their own guild or join another, and everyone just wished them well. Then again, we don't raid as a guild, either; raiding is strictly optional through Perenolde's SGA (small guild alliance). It has its drawbacks, but it's working out nicely for me.


... and yeah, I know I'm coming in on this late, but I somehow missed this when it was originally posted. I hope by this point, everything's settled out.

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

Mostly settled. Matter of fact, most of The Forgotten's drama (loot-based, most of it) left when they did. So, that's a silver-lining and a half, right there.

All in all, things are pretty good.