Worst Guild Experience Ever? - Guild Wars Forums

Karomi Saoshi · Oct 01, 2007, 04:54 PM // 16:54

I don't know if this has been asked before, i searched and nothing came up. Also if this is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it. So...what is your worst guild experience ever? You don't have to say the names or so of the guild/guildies in which the experience happened. Anyways, mine would have to be when an old guild leader took a lot of members and officers donations to "improve our guild and get new players" but instead bought his self new armor with it and blamed me for telling people what he did after everyone left.

So whats yours?

Tarja · Oct 01, 2007, 07:20 PM // 19:20

My first long term guild. We were small, and all very close friends. I was the head officer, and the leader and I were good friends outside of the game. That is until the stalking occurred. When I played with other people, talked to people on messengers, or went out with my rl friends, he would leave me nasty messeges and the like.

nechronius · Oct 02, 2007, 10:21 PM // 22:21

I used to be the leader of a guild that went inactive around 9/05 due to inactivity. I had to turn the proverbial lights off in the hall, so to speak. That always sucks.

In my current guild that I am an officer of, we had one officer who was always a bit of a loose cannon. Nothing wrong with that, he was never bad. However one day he acted like his account had been hacked. Got a lot of sympathy and quite a bit of "donations" since he had been a giver in the past. That wasn't the worst of it.

Shortly thereafter he jumped online, and claimed he was his own little brother, wanting to tell us that the REAL guild member had been killed in a plane crash, and that he was just logging in to tell us about it and that his older brother had left little messages for us, just in case...

... Which is about when my BS meter went to DEFCON 1. Immediately I checked for recent plane crashes involving passenger airlines. None. No recent small plane crashes either. Also his "little brother" didn't know which airline he went down in. Let's face it, someone you love goes down in a plane, you're going to know every little detail about that flight, even the seat number most likely.

So a bunch of us idled in the guild hall with his "little brother." I had whispered all of the officers, arguing for restraint and discretion due to the previous "incident" with the account.

Sure enough, while most of us were idling, I scrolled back to see basically a "hahaha! you guys are stupid and f'ing suck!" kind of a message from him before he kicked one person (his little brother's account, allegedly) and then quit the guild himself.

While the incident was out of character for this person, it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility due to his somewhat joking nature and young age (around 15-16). At one point he tried to IM me and want to return some stuff I gave him after the first incident, and claimed that the second incident was the work of his little sister. I told him to keep it (two pets, 50k) as a severance payment and put him on ignore.

Really sad that some people will do this and while I hold no grudge nor wish him ill will, and honestly there's no way to 100% prove or disprove that these incidents were entirely of his doing, I don't need this kind of distraction when I'm just trying to enjoy myself.

Goddyfather · Oct 03, 2007, 08:18 AM // 08:18

Worst guild experience? , that was actually having all those guilds and watch them fall apart while you spend a couple 'o millions on em

elektra_lucia · Oct 08, 2007, 03:40 PM // 15:40

Guild leader asked to see pictures of my penis and agro'd everything causing my level two survivor, to stay a level two survivor... :/.

Tarja, people are weird in game

.

Tarja · Oct 08, 2007, 05:30 PM // 17:30

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Originally Posted by elektra_lucia

Guild leader asked to see pictures of my penis and agro'd everything causing my level two survivor, to stay a level two survivor... :/.

Tarja, people are weird in game

.

Well, it didn't stop there, I just didn't think I should post what happened when he came to my house one day and asked MY FAMILY is he could have kids with me

elektra_lucia · Oct 08, 2007, 06:29 PM // 18:29

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I just didn't think I should post what happened

My apologies if it sounded like I was asking you to explain any further.

Tarja · Oct 09, 2007, 02:19 AM // 02:19

I didn't take it that way. Mostly I just didn't want to type too much

Okay, another guild experience;

A few friends of mine were planning on making our own guild. We worked it out to who was buying what NPC, who was naming the guild, creating the cape, ect. We were asking a few friends if they were interested in joining us. Someone I knew didn't even give 30 seconds to consider it. They left their guild, as an officer, went and bought a sigil, and created our guild.. without even consulting us. He invited all of his old friends, and made them officers, even though they were inactive. He himself was hardly active. We had a guild of 13 people, and he made seven officers...

We managed to temporarily make him make a fellow officer, one of the original people who wanted to create the guild to begin with, the guild leader. He inturn demoted those who the original person had promoted, and we took back the guild from him, although he wasn't very happy about that.

It all fell apart, as we didn't get off to the start we wanted, and people were feeling angry about the whole ordeal. It was rather rude, what the friend did, as he had nothing to do with the creation of it to begin with. He never consulted with us on anything, from the guild website, to the promotion of all of those inactive people. It wasn't pleasant, how we managed to get it all back from him.

Rolgalthor · Oct 10, 2007, 05:45 PM // 17:45

This is not really a bad experience but it isnt really all that good none the less. About 3-4 weeks after I started playing GW in Jan '06. I recieved a PM from a fellow about recruitment in to a guild. So I joined thinking it would be cool to group up with people and make some friends. I was in the guild for 3 months. After repeated attempts to group up to assist or be assisted in missions and quests, I never saw a single member of my guild "in person" with the exception when 10 of us got together for a group shot in the guild hall one night. Feeling quite out of place I left to find a little more social group.

rick1027 · Oct 10, 2007, 09:28 PM // 21:28

actually my worst experience was being invited to a guild by the leader who ended up being the only one who spoke english while the rest were all spanish speaking and trying to do thin gs with them not understanding anything they typed. the reason the leader invited me was cause i had experience and the rest had little or none which i found out later after i left

Vickie · Oct 11, 2007, 02:46 AM // 02:46

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Originally Posted by rick1027

actually my worst experience was being invited to a guild by the leader who ended up being the only one who spoke english while the rest were all spanish speaking and trying to do thin gs with them not understanding anything they typed. the reason the leader invited me was cause i had experience and the rest had little or none which i found out later after i left

I had a similar but opposite experience. One guildie of mine invited a Canadian, when my guildie, as well as 90% of the people from our alliance, could barely understand English. I had to chat him up when he's on hoping he'd feel slightly less out of place, but it's still difficult because of our time difference. He eventually stopped socialising and left the guild. My guildie just shouldn't have invited someone he can hardly communicate with. :S

Holly Herro · Oct 11, 2007, 03:01 AM // 03:01

Well, this is sort of a bad experience. It's 2 actually.

Well, me and my RL had made a guild, we had about 50 members and they were all at least 2 weeks active and stuff. One day an officer asked if he could promote his friend, we thought yea why not, and he goes and kicks everyone when we're offline :\

The second was I made a guild (again) and it was only me and 3 other RL friends, my friend invites this gold farmer and promotes him. For the first week, he tries speaking English and stuff that was cool and then, he invites all his gold farmer friends. All my friends left and it was me with all this foreign text and people. The good thing was when they all left the game, they gave me all there stuff

So at the end of each week, I had like 100k extra ^^

Teh [prefession]-zorz · Oct 11, 2007, 03:16 AM // 03:16

First time i get to halls in tombs, and i DC

Owing 5k to my friend on a chest run, and i get a req8 chaos drop in FoW only to die.

Making a guild with friends, having a core gvg team [top 100] and then i leave for a week and the guild is gone...

Going to Ra.

ValaOfTheFens · Oct 11, 2007, 05:17 AM // 05:17

Last october I joined a guild that I really liked. The people were nice and the guild was extremely active. But the this past spring the GL announced that he was dying. At first we were all upset and sad and justifiably so. The GL was 16 and thats pretty young to be dying. But a few days later another guildie, his own sister btw, told us that he wasn't really dying at all and just wanted to quit GW. Everyone got pissed off and alot of really good people left. Some came back but it was never the same. A few months later some of the younger guildies started making trouble. One pmed horrible things to someone I invited to join because he was openly gay. The whole thing came to a head when a someone told the leader of our alliance lies(we'd been booted out of the previous alliance because of some rash words from both parties). We were kicked and the traitor took most of the active members to the alliance leaders guild with him. After that I quit and started my own guild. The other day the instigator whispered me in-game to ask if I wanted to re-join the guild. The GL let him back in, despite his past as a trouble maker and traitor. *sigh* I'd just put the whole experience behind me and now its been drudged up yet again.

Linksys · Oct 11, 2007, 07:40 AM // 07:40

In one of the first guilds I was in, the leader was this super emo guy who's idea of GW gaming was sitting around Lions Arch at a scenic view and chatting. He said he wanted to do GvG eventually. Then he was hardly on and told everyone to hold on. This went for a few weeks. I just did my own thing in PUG groups since nothing was happening. He took us on a Tombs attempt and didn't know the first thing to do in there. It's not that I'm criticizing him for not being very experienced. It's the way the guild had nothing going on and he was clinging on to us which was holding us back. It went week after week and I was a new gamer so I wasn't sure how much more there was to GW. Eventually I quit GW for a while(not because of this) so I exited the guild. When I came back to start over, he kept sending unwanted whisper messages to me. Eventually I put him on ignore when it got to the point of bothersome and stalking. To respond to him, even to tell him to stop messaging me, would be like rewarding him with a response. He even sent people I've never came across before to send messages for him.

Cats · Oct 14, 2007, 07:31 AM // 07:31

Wow... being in a guild can really be a pain sometimes eh. Never had an encounter that could be considered entirely bad, just some misunderstandings and character clashes.

Ghryphon · Oct 14, 2007, 12:35 PM // 12:35

I wouldnt say its a bad experience...but this happens with mostly all guilds. Drama. People complain and whine about things and how they arent what they wanted it to be and blah blah blah. People just not happy because they expect something and its not there. When everyone first gets together things are great and on fire, then things cool down and it breaks apart which tests the character of people...and often times it will bring out the worst in them. Basically, drama is everywhere....in every game between teams, its just a way of life I suppose...sadly it ruins a lot of great guilds/teams because of it.

To those who stay drama and conflict free, many kudos to you...its not easy.

As for all of your past stuff...interesting. Specially the one who made an officer of someones friend and he kicked everynoe...hope you learned your lesson

Officer titles are supposed to be earned and entrusted, not handed out to please one person lol

Anyways...interesting stories, please continue!

Count to Potato · Oct 15, 2007, 12:30 AM // 00:30

i was in a top 100 guild, was away for 3 weeks at camp, i come back and SOul Barbs spike is popular in gvg, i had never seen it before and i frenzied ONCE in a spike because i thought it was only some hexes, the day after im kicked....

longhornrob · Oct 15, 2007, 08:36 AM // 08:36

No one in the guild I'm in is mean or annoying or anything, but I'm tired of the guild because not enough people do PvP. It's a very laid back guild and all, but no one seems to be concerned with the guild's total faction. If donating didn't count for double on my Luxon title, I would just buy shards or scrolls all day long. So far I've donated ~1.3 million faction in about four months, and the guild is currently at around 300k faction, and that's only because we haven't fallen all the way back down from the double AB weekend yet. It was down to 80K at one point.

dragonofinfinity · Oct 15, 2007, 03:57 PM // 15:57

the first guild i was in was realy good, they were happy with casuals and PvP people.
they joined an alliance with a few casual guilds and a couple of very PvP obsessed ones (we were sort of in the middle).
it was fine at the beginning, untill the comments started;
one of the very PvP guilds made a comment about the lack of PvP and faction farming that the others did.
these slowly got worse, untill it reached a point that nomatter what time of day you went on several people would be bitching about the other guilds in alliance chat.
unfortunatly some of our officers joined in and started repeatedly pestering us to farm lots and lots of faction, at the time i was very regularly playing and they would especialy target the regulars.
it was then there was a leader change and 3 cloak changes in 3 days;at thais point there was a mass exodus from the guild and it must have lost about half its members including me.

my brother was in another guild in the same alliance and he got fed up of all the snipeing and left his guild at the same time.
we formed our own 2 man guild.

Oct 01, 2007, 04:54 PM // 16:54	#1
Karomi Saoshi Academy Page Join Date: Nov 2006 Profession: Mo/	Worst Guild Experience Ever? I don't know if this has been asked before, i searched and nothing came up. Also if this is in the wrong section, please feel free to move it. So...what is your worst guild experience ever? You don't have to say the names or so of the guild/guildies in which the experience happened. Anyways, mine would have to be when an old guild leader took a lot of members and officers donations to "improve our guild and get new players" but instead bought his self new armor with it and blamed me for telling people what he did after everyone left. So whats yours? Last edited by Karomi Saoshi; Oct 01, 2007 at 04:56 PM // 16:56..

Oct 11, 2007, 07:40 AM // 07:40	#15
Linksys Jungle Guide Join Date: Apr 2006	In one of the first guilds I was in, the leader was this super emo guy who's idea of GW gaming was sitting around Lions Arch at a scenic view and chatting. He said he wanted to do GvG eventually. Then he was hardly on and told everyone to hold on. This went for a few weeks. I just did my own thing in PUG groups since nothing was happening. He took us on a Tombs attempt and didn't know the first thing to do in there. It's not that I'm criticizing him for not being very experienced. It's the way the guild had nothing going on and he was clinging on to us which was holding us back. It went week after week and I was a new gamer so I wasn't sure how much more there was to GW. Eventually I quit GW for a while(not because of this) so I exited the guild. When I came back to start over, he kept sending unwanted whisper messages to me. Eventually I put him on ignore when it got to the point of bothersome and stalking. To respond to him, even to tell him to stop messaging me, would be like rewarding him with a response. He even sent people I've never came across before to send messages for him. Last edited by Linksys; Oct 11, 2007 at 07:43 AM // 07:43..

Oct 01, 2007, 07:20 PM // 19:20	#2
Tarja Academy Page Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada	My first long term guild. We were small, and all very close friends. I was the head officer, and the leader and I were good friends outside of the game. That is until the stalking occurred. When I played with other people, talked to people on messengers, or went out with my rl friends, he would leave me nasty messeges and the like.

Oct 02, 2007, 10:21 PM // 22:21	#3
nechronius Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Southern Cali Guild: Herald of the Storm Profession: W/R	I used to be the leader of a guild that went inactive around 9/05 due to inactivity. I had to turn the proverbial lights off in the hall, so to speak. That always sucks. In my current guild that I am an officer of, we had one officer who was always a bit of a loose cannon. Nothing wrong with that, he was never bad. However one day he acted like his account had been hacked. Got a lot of sympathy and quite a bit of "donations" since he had been a giver in the past. That wasn't the worst of it. Shortly thereafter he jumped online, and claimed he was his own little brother, wanting to tell us that the REAL guild member had been killed in a plane crash, and that he was just logging in to tell us about it and that his older brother had left little messages for us, just in case... ... Which is about when my BS meter went to DEFCON 1. Immediately I checked for recent plane crashes involving passenger airlines. None. No recent small plane crashes either. Also his "little brother" didn't know which airline he went down in. Let's face it, someone you love goes down in a plane, you're going to know every little detail about that flight, even the seat number most likely. So a bunch of us idled in the guild hall with his "little brother." I had whispered all of the officers, arguing for restraint and discretion due to the previous "incident" with the account. Sure enough, while most of us were idling, I scrolled back to see basically a "hahaha! you guys are stupid and f'ing suck!" kind of a message from him before he kicked one person (his little brother's account, allegedly) and then quit the guild himself. While the incident was out of character for this person, it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility due to his somewhat joking nature and young age (around 15-16). At one point he tried to IM me and want to return some stuff I gave him after the first incident, and claimed that the second incident was the work of his little sister. I told him to keep it (two pets, 50k) as a severance payment and put him on ignore. Really sad that some people will do this and while I hold no grudge nor wish him ill will, and honestly there's no way to 100% prove or disprove that these incidents were entirely of his doing, I don't need this kind of distraction when I'm just trying to enjoy myself.

Oct 03, 2007, 08:18 AM // 08:18	#4
Goddyfather Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Aug 2006 Profession: W/E	Worst guild experience? , that was actually having all those guilds and watch them fall apart while you spend a couple 'o millions on em

Oct 08, 2007, 03:40 PM // 15:40	#5
elektra_lucia Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: England Guild: Leteci is [sexy] Profession: Mo/	Guild leader asked to see pictures of my penis and agro'd everything causing my level two survivor, to stay a level two survivor... :/. Tarja, people are weird in game .

Oct 09, 2007, 02:19 AM // 02:19	#8
Tarja Academy Page Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada	I didn't take it that way. Mostly I just didn't want to type too much Okay, another guild experience; A few friends of mine were planning on making our own guild. We worked it out to who was buying what NPC, who was naming the guild, creating the cape, ect. We were asking a few friends if they were interested in joining us. Someone I knew didn't even give 30 seconds to consider it. They left their guild, as an officer, went and bought a sigil, and created our guild.. without even consulting us. He invited all of his old friends, and made them officers, even though they were inactive. He himself was hardly active. We had a guild of 13 people, and he made seven officers... We managed to temporarily make him make a fellow officer, one of the original people who wanted to create the guild to begin with, the guild leader. He inturn demoted those who the original person had promoted, and we took back the guild from him, although he wasn't very happy about that. It all fell apart, as we didn't get off to the start we wanted, and people were feeling angry about the whole ordeal. It was rather rude, what the friend did, as he had nothing to do with the creation of it to begin with. He never consulted with us on anything, from the guild website, to the promotion of all of those inactive people. It wasn't pleasant, how we managed to get it all back from him.

Oct 10, 2007, 05:45 PM // 17:45	#9
Rolgalthor Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tennessee, USA Profession: N/	This is not really a bad experience but it isnt really all that good none the less. About 3-4 weeks after I started playing GW in Jan '06. I recieved a PM from a fellow about recruitment in to a guild. So I joined thinking it would be cool to group up with people and make some friends. I was in the guild for 3 months. After repeated attempts to group up to assist or be assisted in missions and quests, I never saw a single member of my guild "in person" with the exception when 10 of us got together for a group shot in the guild hall one night. Feeling quite out of place I left to find a little more social group.

Oct 10, 2007, 09:28 PM // 21:28	#10
rick1027 Jungle Guide Join Date: Apr 2006 Profession: W/R	actually my worst experience was being invited to a guild by the leader who ended up being the only one who spoke english while the rest were all spanish speaking and trying to do thin gs with them not understanding anything they typed. the reason the leader invited me was cause i had experience and the rest had little or none which i found out later after i left

Oct 11, 2007, 03:01 AM // 03:01	#12
Holly Herro Jungle Guide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kangaroo-land. Guild: Blades of the Dingo [AUST]	Well, this is sort of a bad experience. It's 2 actually. Well, me and my RL had made a guild, we had about 50 members and they were all at least 2 weeks active and stuff. One day an officer asked if he could promote his friend, we thought yea why not, and he goes and kicks everyone when we're offline :\ The second was I made a guild (again) and it was only me and 3 other RL friends, my friend invites this gold farmer and promotes him. For the first week, he tries speaking English and stuff that was cool and then, he invites all his gold farmer friends. All my friends left and it was me with all this foreign text and people. The good thing was when they all left the game, they gave me all there stuff So at the end of each week, I had like 100k extra ^^

Oct 11, 2007, 03:16 AM // 03:16	#13
Teh [prefession]-zorz Jungle Guide Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: wisconsin Guild: Spiders Lair Kurz [SpL] Profession: W/A	First time i get to halls in tombs, and i DC Owing 5k to my friend on a chest run, and i get a req8 chaos drop in FoW only to die. Making a guild with friends, having a core gvg team [top 100] and then i leave for a week and the guild is gone... Going to Ra.

Oct 11, 2007, 05:17 AM // 05:17	#14
ValaOfTheFens Jungle Guide Join Date: Sep 2006 Guild: Warrior Nation[WN]	Last october I joined a guild that I really liked. The people were nice and the guild was extremely active. But the this past spring the GL announced that he was dying. At first we were all upset and sad and justifiably so. The GL was 16 and thats pretty young to be dying. But a few days later another guildie, his own sister btw, told us that he wasn't really dying at all and just wanted to quit GW. Everyone got pissed off and alot of really good people left. Some came back but it was never the same. A few months later some of the younger guildies started making trouble. One pmed horrible things to someone I invited to join because he was openly gay. The whole thing came to a head when a someone told the leader of our alliance lies(we'd been booted out of the previous alliance because of some rash words from both parties). We were kicked and the traitor took most of the active members to the alliance leaders guild with him. After that I quit and started my own guild. The other day the instigator whispered me in-game to ask if I wanted to re-join the guild. The GL let him back in, despite his past as a trouble maker and traitor. sigh I'd just put the whole experience behind me and now its been drudged up yet again.

Oct 14, 2007, 07:31 AM // 07:31	#16
Cats Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: May 2005 Location: Singapore Guild: Charter Vanguard Profession: E/Mo	Wow... being in a guild can really be a pain sometimes eh. Never had an encounter that could be considered entirely bad, just some misunderstandings and character clashes.

Oct 14, 2007, 12:35 PM // 12:35	#17
Ghryphon Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Iowa, United States Guild: LOD Profession: Mo/	I wouldnt say its a bad experience...but this happens with mostly all guilds. Drama. People complain and whine about things and how they arent what they wanted it to be and blah blah blah. People just not happy because they expect something and its not there. When everyone first gets together things are great and on fire, then things cool down and it breaks apart which tests the character of people...and often times it will bring out the worst in them. Basically, drama is everywhere....in every game between teams, its just a way of life I suppose...sadly it ruins a lot of great guilds/teams because of it. To those who stay drama and conflict free, many kudos to you...its not easy. As for all of your past stuff...interesting. Specially the one who made an officer of someones friend and he kicked everynoe...hope you learned your lesson Officer titles are supposed to be earned and entrusted, not handed out to please one person lol Anyways...interesting stories, please continue!

Oct 15, 2007, 12:30 AM // 00:30	#18
Count to Potato Jungle Guide Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Imagination Land Guild: I Swear She Was Eighteen [Gwen] Profession: W/	i was in a top 100 guild, was away for 3 weeks at camp, i come back and SOul Barbs spike is popular in gvg, i had never seen it before and i frenzied ONCE in a spike because i thought it was only some hexes, the day after im kicked....

Oct 15, 2007, 08:36 AM // 08:36	#19
longhornrob Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jul 2007	No one in the guild I'm in is mean or annoying or anything, but I'm tired of the guild because not enough people do PvP. It's a very laid back guild and all, but no one seems to be concerned with the guild's total faction. If donating didn't count for double on my Luxon title, I would just buy shards or scrolls all day long. So far I've donated ~1.3 million faction in about four months, and the guild is currently at around 300k faction, and that's only because we haven't fallen all the way back down from the double AB weekend yet. It was down to 80K at one point.

Oct 15, 2007, 03:57 PM // 15:57	#20
dragonofinfinity Academy Page Join Date: May 2007 Guild: pretentious latin title[PTA] Profession: R/Mo	the first guild i was in was realy good, they were happy with casuals and PvP people. they joined an alliance with a few casual guilds and a couple of very PvP obsessed ones (we were sort of in the middle). it was fine at the beginning, untill the comments started; one of the very PvP guilds made a comment about the lack of PvP and faction farming that the others did. these slowly got worse, untill it reached a point that nomatter what time of day you went on several people would be bitching about the other guilds in alliance chat. unfortunatly some of our officers joined in and started repeatedly pestering us to farm lots and lots of faction, at the time i was very regularly playing and they would especialy target the regulars. it was then there was a leader change and 3 cloak changes in 3 days;at thais point there was a mass exodus from the guild and it must have lost about half its members including me. my brother was in another guild in the same alliance and he got fed up of all the snipeing and left his guild at the same time. we formed our own 2 man guild.