It's sad, really. We were a flourishing guild until the Euro servers opened and 2/3'rds of the actve players left. We were a half dozen or so regulars for a while but it's slowly been dwindling. For the last week I've been the only one online every time I logged in. We haven't recruited anyone, the last person who joined convinced our leader to make him an officer, he then proceeded to loot our guild bank and leave. (His name was reported to GM's and sodden upon in /OOC throughout Norrath, let me tell you.)
Where is everyone? Playing Oblivion? (Can't blame them, great game.) DDO? I'm seriously considering leaving (What, now you ask? The Titanic has hit the iceberg and half sunk. Ya, I know, I'm a die-hard.) It saddens me because I like our leader and he and another guy, and to a lesser extent me and a few others, have put in a lot of work getting to guild level 26.
Anyone want to help populate a guild on Nektulos? Barring that is there a guild that wants a 55 Templar/67 Weaponsmith? My guildmates might be interested in joining as well.
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I think alot of guild have fallen between the free movelogs offered prior to server merger, PVP, and people just leaving for other things.
I doubt Oblivion is going to keep players away from eq2 forever, single player offline games get old eventually.
Ours went downhill the day they offered the movelogs. Made alot of people mad because we gave several PP of master spells, gear, etc to the guild leader then she runs off to another server for no apparent reason. When she did that about 15 to 20% of the members got mad and just left the guild, plus a few followed her. Then PVP started and we lost alot of active members for it. Once you start loseing active members others slowly start to leave it seems.
To be honest I am ready to leave too but I have yet to find a guild that would suit me. I just want a guild that I can group with at 56 but that doesn't require me to churn out X writs per week or require me to be at every raid.
I doubt Oblivion is going to keep players away from eq2 forever, single player offline games get old eventually.
Ours went downhill the day they offered the movelogs. Made alot of people mad because we gave several PP of master spells, gear, etc to the guild leader then she runs off to another server for no apparent reason. When she did that about 15 to 20% of the members got mad and just left the guild, plus a few followed her. Then PVP started and we lost alot of active members for it. Once you start loseing active members others slowly start to leave it seems.
To be honest I am ready to leave too but I have yet to find a guild that would suit me. I just want a guild that I can group with at 56 but that doesn't require me to churn out X writs per week or require me to be at every raid.
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It seems we have gotten some of the folks both of you have lost. When the server merges happened, we had a sudden influx on members - that has stabled out now.
Lydiaele, if Nektolus doesn't work out for you, come check out Najena. I can help you get started and...
Oops, sorry, switched into /recruiter_mode. :)
Seriously though, let me know if you will move over.
Lydiaele, if Nektolus doesn't work out for you, come check out Najena. I can help you get started and...
Oops, sorry, switched into /recruiter_mode. :)
Seriously though, let me know if you will move over.
Our guild took a big belly hit also. We were a small guild of about 20 people, friends who moved from EQ Live and some rl family mised in. It got to the point that the only one's who were ever on were my niece and myself. We tried to hold out but it was so hard to advance the guild. We both started checking out other guilds and she found one that we have moved to. One of the guys that had abandoned us for WoW wandered back and we told him to haul is butt over to the new guild. I think the call of WoW is what pulled most of our men away. This happened about Christmas time.
I had always been concerened with our guild because it seemed so stagnant. No one wanted to invite new members and they just wanted to keep it small and close. That didn't work out to well. I love the new guild, Norrath Wanderers. They are active, growing, and willing to help each other out.
Maybe it's just time for the dwindling guilds to shop for a new guild. I think the idea behind keeping it small and friends only is nice but just not practical.
Zoo
I had always been concerened with our guild because it seemed so stagnant. No one wanted to invite new members and they just wanted to keep it small and close. That didn't work out to well. I love the new guild, Norrath Wanderers. They are active, growing, and willing to help each other out.
Maybe it's just time for the dwindling guilds to shop for a new guild. I think the idea behind keeping it small and friends only is nice but just not practical.
Zoo
tutanbriarpaw wrote:
Lydiaele, if Nektolus doesn't work out for you, come check out Najena. I can help you get started and...
I'm not sure about paying $50.00 to switch servers, but I might. If I do switch servers there's only one I would consider. Butcherblo...
...Najena is queen of servers...
...these aren't the driods we're looking for...
...you can move along...
j/k :)
Move to Najena? I'd rather kiss a Wookie!
(Oh, wait... I already moved to Najena and it is a fine place to be!)
(Oh, wait... I already moved to Najena and it is a fine place to be!)
My guild died too. 1 year and a few months of doing cooking writs everyday or so for absolutely nothing. Mine died because of SOE's lack of conviction towards what they believed had to be done to have a great game : they went way around on the PvP question, copied their huge competitor and took away 3/4 of my guild to their new formed kiddo vs kiddo servers.
So after 2 weeks with my wife of debating if we were going to leave or not, seeing as how we were practically the only 2 left logging in (and believe it or not we were enough ppl to actually have casual raiding !), we decided that, hell EQ2 was not for us anymore. We tried DDO. We cancelled our subscription before the 30 days trial was done. (Like a whole lot of ppl LOL). I just bought oblivion, great game. EQ2 has nothing for me anymore. We tried to start over with some alts. The game is too quick now. What I took weeks to accomplish back then took me a few hours. So my wife and I are stuck, as the only game that really catches our attention atm is Vanguard, and it is still in Beta. We will have to wait, I guess.
It's not only your guild Lydiaele that is dying, or mine's...I really think that EQ2 is not as good in a shape SOE wants to make their customers believe. All that smooth talk about merging because we were such a growing community...im really sorry, its BS. I've been there and it was obvious. The merge ? on my server after the merge (Butcherblock), there were about 3-4 more ppl LFG than usual. That's not much. All the merge brought to me is more plat farmers that train you because you are in their hunting area. There is no such thing as a constant growing community as they want to make all of us believe. The sad truth is, a lot of ppl are quitting, I am just an example of it, and that is why, little by little, more and more posts like yours end up on forums about their guild dying. Sad but true.
I'm not trying to get ppl to hate EQ2. I'm just giving my opinion on some things I observed during my 63 templar levels - 63 provisioner levels. I'm not saying it will necessarily be better somewhere else, but im done here. I now need to see something else.
Peace and have fun, whatever you all decide to do. Just remember the very basic about a game : its meant to be fun.
So after 2 weeks with my wife of debating if we were going to leave or not, seeing as how we were practically the only 2 left logging in (and believe it or not we were enough ppl to actually have casual raiding !), we decided that, hell EQ2 was not for us anymore. We tried DDO. We cancelled our subscription before the 30 days trial was done. (Like a whole lot of ppl LOL). I just bought oblivion, great game. EQ2 has nothing for me anymore. We tried to start over with some alts. The game is too quick now. What I took weeks to accomplish back then took me a few hours. So my wife and I are stuck, as the only game that really catches our attention atm is Vanguard, and it is still in Beta. We will have to wait, I guess.
It's not only your guild Lydiaele that is dying, or mine's...I really think that EQ2 is not as good in a shape SOE wants to make their customers believe. All that smooth talk about merging because we were such a growing community...im really sorry, its BS. I've been there and it was obvious. The merge ? on my server after the merge (Butcherblock), there were about 3-4 more ppl LFG than usual. That's not much. All the merge brought to me is more plat farmers that train you because you are in their hunting area. There is no such thing as a constant growing community as they want to make all of us believe. The sad truth is, a lot of ppl are quitting, I am just an example of it, and that is why, little by little, more and more posts like yours end up on forums about their guild dying. Sad but true.
I'm not trying to get ppl to hate EQ2. I'm just giving my opinion on some things I observed during my 63 templar levels - 63 provisioner levels. I'm not saying it will necessarily be better somewhere else, but im done here. I now need to see something else.
Peace and have fun, whatever you all decide to do. Just remember the very basic about a game : its meant to be fun.
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