I wanted to get a feel for the size of guilds that most people play in primarily. Especially with the upcoming guild features in HoT, I hope that smaller guilds are not left out. So this poll is to get a handle on the distribution of people in very small (<5), small (5-15), medium (15-30), large (30-50) and very large (50+) guilds. Please vote on your primary guild (ie: not your mission guild, etc.) and only include your active players. Personally, I am in a small guild of about 7-8 active players. We mostly WvW, dungeon, and play in meta-PvE events together and would love to build our own guild hall and do new guild things together…
My guild currently has about 8 active players. In the past it has had as many kitten active players on line at a time. I expect that with the expansion coming out guilds that want to grow will be able to.
Very large, over 200.
How many active: most, at least within the couple of months. The guild kicks people who don’t log in.
How many of those have played in this last 2 months: maybe about 80% to 90%. Most play daily.
We have came back to Guild Wars 2 a month ago and currently according to this poll we would fall into the very large category (just over 50 people), with anywhere between 8 to 20 active every day (so our activity would be medium), even though we’re extremely casual and did not impose any activity rules.
I would really consider anything below 50 to be really small, 50 to 100 small, 100 to 200 as medium and 200+ large.
And then activity should be measured in % really kitten out of 5 people active is better than 5 out of 250 people active.
Personally, I would consider “active” being someone who logs in regularly (whether its every day or every weekend) and plays with other members of the guild. Its one thing to be part of a mega-guild and only show up for missions, and a different thing to actually log on and actually play with your guild.
Lucy Ursa~80 Guardian | Worf Rozhenko~80 Warrior | Vera Valentine~80 Mesmer | Cupcake~80 Engi
King Arcturus X~80 Ranger | Suki Serra~80 Thief | Count Charon~80 Necro | Regulus Leo~80 Ele
HoD since launch
We have came back to Guild Wars 2 a month ago and currently according to this poll we would fall into the very large category (just over 50 people), with anywhere between 8 to 20 active every day (so our activity would be medium), even though we’re extremely casual and did not impose any activity rules.
I would really consider anything below 50 to be really small, 50 to 100 small, 100 to 200 as medium and 200+ large.
And then activity should be measured in % really kitten out of 5 people active is better than 5 out of 250 people active.
Yeah, someone commented about this on reddit as well and in hindsight, I should have explained my thoughts on the breakdown a little better. I broke them up in groups based on what I thought were similar in ability, not just raw numbers. For example, a 60 man guild has the same capability in the game as a 200+ guild. The differences in ability start to become much more important at the lower end. Think of a group of 10 people running around in WvW versus a group of 40.
Lucy Ursa~80 Guardian | Worf Rozhenko~80 Warrior | Vera Valentine~80 Mesmer | Cupcake~80 Engi
King Arcturus X~80 Ranger | Suki Serra~80 Thief | Count Charon~80 Necro | Regulus Leo~80 Ele
HoD since launch
Very large, over 200.
How many active: most, at least within the couple of months. The guild kicks people who don’t log in.
How many of those have played in this last 2 months: maybe about 80% to 90%. Most play daily.
I’m his guildmate, so yeah … same here
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If anything the actual guild size is how much people have logged in within the last 3 days.
Somebody logging in once a weak doesnt really contribute anything to a guild unless the guild has some sort of primetime when all log in.
that depends. We have such events as Teamspeak Fridays. People who join in once a week, twice a month, once a month even still contribute to the chatter, to the feel good attitude and to the overall happiness of the guild.
A game is not a prison. It shouldn’t be something you have to do. It has to be a place that you want to come back to and for that to happen guilds should really not care how often you do that. After all we all have lives
Roster size is 150. We have about 10-35 online and repping at any given time. I would say the majority of the guild logs on regular basis just not all at the same time. We clear out people that don’t log or observed not repping very often on a monthly basis with the exception of a hand full of people that have been part of the guild for years.
If anything the actual guild size is how much people have logged in within the last 3 days.
Somebody logging in once a weak doesnt really contribute anything to a guild unless the guild has some sort of primetime when all log in.
that depends. We have such events as Teamspeak Fridays. People who join in once a week, twice a month, once a month even still contribute to the chatter, to the feel good attitude and to the overall happiness of the guild.
A game is not a prison. It shouldn’t be something you have to do. It has to be a place that you want to come back to and for that to happen guilds should really not care how often you do that. After all we all have lives
You didnt read my post, at all.
I said that if a guild has a primetime when everybody logs into the game, this is perfectly fine.
If the guild doesnt, then there is a good chance that 30 “active” people logging in once a week for a couple of hours will never manage to get as much as a dungeon run together.
Your definitions of guild sizes are a bit weird. I’d say anything below 50 is a small guild, as you won’t get more than 10-15 people online at a time unless you’re an extremely focused/hardcore guild. If you’re a casual guild, good luck getting even 5 online at a time.
I.E. my guild Faerie Law has a roster of 45, but around 15-20 active and can manage at most 10 online at a time consistently during our prime time WvW raids (usually 5-7, cycling through the 15-20 active players as they log in and log out). That’s not a lot of numbers and can’t be considered a “large” guild.
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Beastgate | Faerie Law
Currently residing on SBI
Your definitions of guild sizes are a bit weird. I’d say anything below 50 is a small guild, as you won’t get more than 10-15 people online at a time unless you’re an extremely focused/hardcore guild. If you’re a casual guild, good luck getting even 5 online at a time.
I.E. my guild Faerie Law has a roster of 45, but around 15-20 active and can manage at most 10 online at a time consistently during our prime time WvW raids (usually 5-7, cycling through the 15-20 active players as they log in and log out). That’s not a lot of numbers and can’t be considered a “large” guild.
Well, I did ask for active members… not roster size.
I also explain my logic in guild sizes earlier in this post.
Ideally, a more comprehensive poll which polls for active players, primetime numbers, number of guildies who actually play together, etc would be nice. In essence, I am trying to get a feel for the capabilities of the guild which people are members of. A 100 member guild which only ever has 10-20 people playing together at a time is really only a 10-20 person guild.
Lucy Ursa~80 Guardian | Worf Rozhenko~80 Warrior | Vera Valentine~80 Mesmer | Cupcake~80 Engi
King Arcturus X~80 Ranger | Suki Serra~80 Thief | Count Charon~80 Necro | Regulus Leo~80 Ele
HoD since launch
Your definitions of guild sizes are a bit weird. I’d say anything below 50 is a small guild, as you won’t get more than 10-15 people online at a time unless you’re an extremely focused/hardcore guild. If you’re a casual guild, good luck getting even 5 online at a time.
I.E. my guild Faerie Law has a roster of 45, but around 15-20 active and can manage at most 10 online at a time consistently during our prime time WvW raids (usually 5-7, cycling through the 15-20 active players as they log in and log out). That’s not a lot of numbers and can’t be considered a “large” guild.
Well, I did ask for active members… not roster size.
I also explain my logic in guild sizes earlier in this post.
Ideally, a more comprehensive poll which polls for active players, primetime numbers, number of guildies who actually play together, etc would be nice. In essence, I am trying to get a feel for the capabilities of the guild which people are members of. A 100 member guild which only ever has 10-20 people playing together at a time is really only a 10-20 person guild.
But then what about international guilds? Multi-guild communities (TTS and the likes) that have 200-300 players online 24/7? Or maybe even 100 man guilds that have 10-15 online through the entire day? How can you measure that activity?
Expac sucks for WvW players. Asura master race
Beastgate | Faerie Law
Currently residing on SBI
Your definitions of guild sizes are a bit weird. I’d say anything below 50 is a small guild, as you won’t get more than 10-15 people online at a time unless you’re an extremely focused/hardcore guild. If you’re a casual guild, good luck getting even 5 online at a time.
I.E. my guild Faerie Law has a roster of 45, but around 15-20 active and can manage at most 10 online at a time consistently during our prime time WvW raids (usually 5-7, cycling through the 15-20 active players as they log in and log out). That’s not a lot of numbers and can’t be considered a “large” guild.
Well, I did ask for active members… not roster size.
I also explain my logic in guild sizes earlier in this post.
Ideally, a more comprehensive poll which polls for active players, primetime numbers, number of guildies who actually play together, etc would be nice. In essence, I am trying to get a feel for the capabilities of the guild which people are members of. A 100 member guild which only ever has 10-20 people playing together at a time is really only a 10-20 person guild.
But then what about international guilds? Multi-guild communities (TTS and the likes) that have 200-300 players online 24/7? Or maybe even 100 man guilds that have 10-15 online through the entire day? How can you measure that activity?
I don’t know, and honestly a poll this simple can’t gauge that kind of variation. From the results of the poll thus far (albeit tiny sample size), there is a significant fraction of the playerbase which do not fall into what I called large (which is quite small compared to many guild rosters).
It would be my assumption that most people fall into a few categories:
Member of a huge international guild, have a few friends in the guild but by and large you don’t know everyone else in the guild. Good for world events etc. (example: TTS)
Member of a large focused guild (example: big names in WvW)
Member of guilds with a lot of members on roster, but basically a casual group of people that might pop in guild chat asking if anyone wants to do a dungeon etc. These guilds have a core group of players and a lot of vagrants.
Member of a small guilds consisting of friends who only play with each other, everyone knows everyone.
My case in point is this: A large/mega guild can do anything Anet wants to throw at us with updates to the way guilds function. But at what point do smaller guild get left out of the picture, and more importantly, how much of the playerbase falls into this category.
Lucy Ursa~80 Guardian | Worf Rozhenko~80 Warrior | Vera Valentine~80 Mesmer | Cupcake~80 Engi
King Arcturus X~80 Ranger | Suki Serra~80 Thief | Count Charon~80 Necro | Regulus Leo~80 Ele
HoD since launch
Medium guild with small active size. And the active players are starting to rep an overlapping guild.
We’ll see what guild halls require, as my main guild has over 300K influence banked right now (not so much merits, though, we were never quite large enough to get past Bounties).
