Cthulhu Fhtagn
11-26-2013, 05:24 AM
Hello guys. I want to tell you a story.
My IGN is Mescalineo. I play AL for 5 months, and I'm from Poland. I am proud member of biggest polish guild, <Polish Legends>. We had all kinds of players, newbies, and 'old' players. Many of them remember times, when max lvl was 16... I'm one of about 70 officers in this guild. The one and only requirement to join <Polish Legends>, was to know language. Few days ago we had about 2000 members - we was pretty 'top' guild. But no anymore. Why? Because we created a monster.
What happend? Hmm... Think about it. 2000 players. Hard to keep order, don't you think?
When you are Master of such huge guild, you have 2 options:
Option no. 1 - no rules. People scam each other, curse on /g, offend others... This option isn't good, becouse it create negative opinion about guild. Somebody new in game join our guild, and only thing he see on /g is few idiots, who curse on each other. He think 'this guild sucks, there are only kids and morons' and he leave.
Option no. 2 - hard rules. We chose this option. We created our forum, and we put there people "banned" from our guild for bad behavior. Our guild started to cleanse itself, and number of members started to raise.
And what happened to players, which we removed from our guild for bad behavior? Many of them wanted to join back our guild. We are always opened for such players, if they say 'sorry' on /g and start behave well. But few people doesn't wanted to go back. They created their own guild. I won't type here name of this guild, for this story let's call this guild 'monster'.
So, we have now one Polish guild with 2k members, and second polish guild with about 100 members (maybe less). We started little war. Few people from 'monster' join our guild, and tried to 'steal' our members. We talked to Master of this guild, he said that he will stop them, but there was no effect.
Anyway, we did mistake. Very serious mistake. One of our officer left Arcane Legends, but before he left, he gave up his account to somebody else. And we forget to demote this account to member - he still was officer. So, this account started to change owners, and guess, who finally get this account? Somebody from this 'monster'.
Think of that - two guilds in war, and one of them have an officer as a 'spy'...
I don't know what they wanted to achieve in this, but this night, 25-26 November, he removed ALL members of our guild. There are only 70 officers left.
We tried to keep order in our guild, and it end up like this. Of course we will rebuild our guild, but it will take months...
My IGN is Mescalineo. I play AL for 5 months, and I'm from Poland. I am proud member of biggest polish guild, <Polish Legends>. We had all kinds of players, newbies, and 'old' players. Many of them remember times, when max lvl was 16... I'm one of about 70 officers in this guild. The one and only requirement to join <Polish Legends>, was to know language. Few days ago we had about 2000 members - we was pretty 'top' guild. But no anymore. Why? Because we created a monster.
What happend? Hmm... Think about it. 2000 players. Hard to keep order, don't you think?
When you are Master of such huge guild, you have 2 options:
Option no. 1 - no rules. People scam each other, curse on /g, offend others... This option isn't good, becouse it create negative opinion about guild. Somebody new in game join our guild, and only thing he see on /g is few idiots, who curse on each other. He think 'this guild sucks, there are only kids and morons' and he leave.
Option no. 2 - hard rules. We chose this option. We created our forum, and we put there people "banned" from our guild for bad behavior. Our guild started to cleanse itself, and number of members started to raise.
And what happened to players, which we removed from our guild for bad behavior? Many of them wanted to join back our guild. We are always opened for such players, if they say 'sorry' on /g and start behave well. But few people doesn't wanted to go back. They created their own guild. I won't type here name of this guild, for this story let's call this guild 'monster'.
So, we have now one Polish guild with 2k members, and second polish guild with about 100 members (maybe less). We started little war. Few people from 'monster' join our guild, and tried to 'steal' our members. We talked to Master of this guild, he said that he will stop them, but there was no effect.
Anyway, we did mistake. Very serious mistake. One of our officer left Arcane Legends, but before he left, he gave up his account to somebody else. And we forget to demote this account to member - he still was officer. So, this account started to change owners, and guess, who finally get this account? Somebody from this 'monster'.
Think of that - two guilds in war, and one of them have an officer as a 'spy'...
I don't know what they wanted to achieve in this, but this night, 25-26 November, he removed ALL members of our guild. There are only 70 officers left.
We tried to keep order in our guild, and it end up like this. Of course we will rebuild our guild, but it will take months...