I remember the day Shadowtour started Splintered Souls. Me, Alex, Mos and him met in Dolce and banana. Things where not going the way we wanted there. The raid leader was way to often late and sometimes we didnt have enough people for a raid. We all started to search outside. I went to FFS. I even got the offer to become an officer. I must have known i wasnt going to be there for so long? Shad said he was trying one more guild and if that didnt work out he was going to start his own. So things didnt work out and he started his guild. I still remember joining in the very first day. I remember seeming the text going yellow telling me i was now an officer of Splintered Souls.
What was the idea of making Splintered souls? To make it a social raiding guild but with firm times and a few rules. Among them was "You will conduct yourself in an adult manner at all times. We are not your parents. You will show respect and consideration to all guild members, officers, and alliance guild members, regardless if you’re in or out of raid." And we where about to make it! We where thinking about our reputation at all times. We took schooling the members that did wrong in private (that was an officer rule, you never reprimanded members in public). We got alot of good players to the guild. Most of them i still have a huge respect for. I cant really point my finger to when it went wrong, all i can say is that i think alot of people have gone numb now to what is said. When not even the officers can follow the rules any more, who can expect a member to do it?
We had an incident in the guild with 2 members being rude all the time. Specially to one person. It just kept going and going and going. And at the same time i was trying to pull everyones thumb out of there behinds. We still needed to reqruit, we where missing the cata changes when everyone was changing guild. I spoke up about the problems i saw. I even came up with sulutions to the problems. You have to have some sulutions sometimes to something, cant complain all the time and expect someone else to do it. Specially when you where in the position i was. An officer. Thats a huge responsibility. I seemd to have seen it more as a company that cant survive without selling something. And on horde side with our server its a very small world. A guild lives on its reputation its getting. I was warning about members leaving just cuz of the lack of commitment from us. What happened. We have lost ALOT of good members.
I raided with the guild yesterday. First time in 8 weeks i think? What could i see? No one really seemed like they really cared. Everyone was at an okay mood when we started but as soon as we meet a tiny little bit of problem it all turned sour. I didnt give a *bleep* cuz it was so long ago i was raiding. To me it was al fun. If people didnt want to, screw them, im killing this big ugly thing. I got to hear the other day everyone said they wanted me back. Do they? Really? After what was said today from one officer on vent im not so sure. Im not the most secure person. I dont care what my dmg meter told me after the raid, its so much more then dps in a raid. You need to know when to stop, when to push it, when to not stand in the shit on the ground otr whatever shit is coming your way. When Spike and Druid said things about other people raiding i got to hear that one officer stoped playing. He was offended. I guess the same way i was today? No one seems to thin there was a problem having one outsider and one very fresh member on vent. It becomes like rings on the water.
I really wish people could open their eyes and start to care again. Atm i cant ffeel alot of people cares how we represent ourselves any more. To many chefs trying to make the soup? Atm its a cold hearted soup with a very bitter taste!
Alex said in the middle of all our stuff going on, that he would try to run the guild. I thought people wanted change. Specially since we now are struggling to get new people in. And the website went down at the same time (guess who was the first to see that. Me ofc. lol) Im seriously thinking about who wants to work for the guild (that i know some do) and who just want the status of an officer? All i can say to my hun Alex is I am really glad you where trying and ty for taking my opinion in consideration when you where tying to make the guild what it was. I would have supported you all the way to make the guild what we wanted the first day when we where so few. The concept of that was popular, the concept now isnt. Im glad you could see it and wanted to work on it while your my rock and biggest support here at home. Taking care of both me, a house, a cat and a guild is alot of work. I wish more people could see what attitude was a winning concept for the guild and what wasnt.But i guess people change...
Neither me or Alex feel like raiding. If it wasnt for all the people we loved we would have left now. Just like everyone else. Like all the inactive members that dont seem to find the spark for the game again. And i am really sorry synth, i wont be raidleading ever and spank you around like you said you missed. I will wait and see if the guild can recover or if it cant. If it gets disband, or we end up being the only ones left, i will start up Angels of Destiny again. But i really dont have the energy or the time atm to do it so i really hope it wont come to that.
Where did the love go? I still got plenty to give to the guild.Please dont break my heart so much guys, it cant take much more without being broke forever....
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