Yeah, I know. I announce “I’m back!” then promptly not post anymore. What can I say? We’re still in the midst of unpacking and getting set up in a new town/state, and now I’m off for training for the new job. But there’s been another reason I’ve been kinda quiet, and it’s not one that I’m fond of.
See, I joined the guild I’m in just over a year and a half ago. It was a move made with my boyfriend and another friend of ours from our original guild. Most of the people in our original guild had wandered off from WoW or just weren’t interested in what we were interested in: raiding. The Boyfriend knew a guild that ran his raid group that was prepping for the switch from “classic” WoW to TBC WoW by taking in new members that they knew and liked to run the 25 man raids. I liked them, they liked us, and since our old guild was more or less dying, we announced we were leaving to go raid with the new guild. Everyone (mostly) understood and we went off to play with the new guild.
Cut to about 4 months ago. Raiding’s starting to get a bit shaky, with everyone winding down on end-of-school, new jobs, losing jobs, new babies, etc. You know: Life. Then the burnout started to show: burnout from raiding and from WoW itself. So raiding got more or less postponed. Again, totally understandable.
We now have something that’s made me want to not log into WoW cos, well, it hurts. A bunch of the core group all decided to try out Age of Conan. While I’m sure it’s a lovely game, I have two problems with it:
1. I’m on a Mac. Yes, I have Boot Camp, but still, come on.
2. I’ve never had any urge to explore the Conan universe. At all. Ever. (Really big problem. Movies were okay, but play there? Nooooo thank you.)
Add in a budget that’s really tight at the moment and yeah, trying AoC is towards the bottom of the list of things I’m interested in. Way at the bottom.
So a lot of the core group left for the new shiny that is AoC, more of the raiders went to a raiding guild or two, and we’re left with a gutted guild. The Boyfriend is now Guild Leader, and we’re both depressed over the whole thing. Yes there are still people in the guild that are happy where they are. Yes, we still have people playing. Are they the ones that we’ve grown used to playing with? Having the fun and insanity with? No.
Yes, guilds burn down like this all the time. It’s pretty common actually. Doesn’t mean I have to like it though. What hurts the most is this all happened pretty much in days. AoC came out, core group left, raid group left, and then the weekend came around and we surveyed what was left and winced. There’s hurt feelings, anger, rolled eyes, and every other emotion possible from just about everyone. I hate crap like this, so I’ve avoided logging in. Add in a move and new job and yes, things have gotten more than a bit disjointed on our side of life.
Am I moving to another guild? Who knows. I know I’m not right now. Do I want to keep raiding? Yep. Do I have any urge to log in these days? Yep, cos a friend of mine came back to WoW just in time to see an implosion. I love playing with him, and that’s giving me some much needed fun in my WoW-life right now. I have at least two if not three guilds on the server that I feel reasonable comfortable offering my “need a warm dps body?” services to. But it’s still not -our- guild and -our- friends. Will they come back with the expansion? Some will. Some won’t. We’ll see.
Breaking up is hard, whether it’s a face-to-face relationship or one born in pixels. It’s the ones that blindside you, the phone calls, text messages or board postings of “I don’t think we should see each other anymore” that hurt the most. So for now, or this week at least, I’m going to be quiet again while I try to absorb this latest kick in the teeth from WoW and try to concentrate on a new job in my “real” life.
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Sigh…sounds very familiar I know what you are going through.
I experienced something similar recently. The main difference was whereas yours happend fast mine seemed to slowly come unglued over several weeks.
The first guild I was in for any length of time was an implosion that happened very suddenly. The GL finally reached a point where she was tired of drama that had been going on by whispers in the background. It eventually reached a point where she simply decided enough was enough and actually disbanded the guild during the middle of a Kara run.
When my first guild imploded I all but quit the game. If it had not gotten caught before I logged by a few friends I likely would have simply stopped playing.
The second time it happened, the slow death as I call it was less traumatic but worse in its own way. Like watching it slowly die while not being able to do anything to stop it.
No matter how it happens it is never easy. You have my sympathy.
Damn, that just sucks
((hugs)) to you! Hope your new real life is going well!
Yeah it’s a shame to see because in essence you’re losing friends potentially forever. Glad you got a friend who is interested in playing right now but hopefully raiding will eventually come back when people realize they don’t have a computer that can handle AoC too well.
Awww /hugs
