Wow World Of Warcraft Guilds: you either love them or hate them. Some guilds are just for socialising, some are for levelling, some for heavy duty raiding. But a few of us choose to stay guildless, preferring to avoid the bickering, pestering from guildies, or commitment that some guilds require.
Nick Breckon has written an extensive article about Guilds in WoW, and here it is>>
World of Warcraft: The Guilded Age
It's from the point of view of someone who is new to WoW, and looks into the organisation and bureaucracy that sometimes goes on within guilds.
And of course, someone has to be a guild leader. You'd think in established guilds, it would be someone with good people skills and a sense of fairness; But this isn't always the case, as WoW player Jeff Buchwald describes:
"The problem I see with guild leadership is that it brings out the worst in some people; mostly those who would want to seize and hold on to any little bit of power they can," "It seems as though WoW World Of Warcraft is the one outlet [the leader of my guild] can control, where he can exude dominance and flex his proverbial muscle,".
The article goes on to compare guilds to Commonwealths, where the players have given up their rights to complain by accepting the guild leader as the one who makes all the decisions; In other words, if you don't like it - leave.
All this makes being guildless sound great - but isn't social interaction what WoW is all about? I've certainly had some good times in guild chat, I even went so far as to travel abroad to meet all my guild mates. But I've had bad experiences in other guilds too. I guess you've just got to find the right one for you.
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