Guild Wars 2

Hiz Father.5186:

its a one time event but you can do it the whole day so your not misssing anything besides the one time event is on sunday at 12 so i f you have school or work on sunday you shouldnt even be playing videogames

Out of curiosity what does working Sundays have to do with playing video games? For years I worked every Sunday, now I rotate in every 3rd Sunday but I play plenty of games.

I’ll miss out on the initial event today and possibly tomorrow as I have to work Saturday as well, ah well it happens. I will be able to attend this Sunday which is great. Am I disappointed? Sure.. Will it really mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of things? Not really. So to those who can make it have fun, those who can’t log in when you can and enjoy what is going on when your around.

My server (Tarnished Coast) is pretty active, I am constantly running into people in all zones pretty frequently. Only times I have issues finding people is when I am on at an odd time like 5am and then things are far less active. Of my guild of 30, I consistently see each of them log in almost everyday or at the very least 4-5 days a week. I can’t think of the last time I entered LA and wasn’t shoved into overflow. I am one of those people who enjoys raiding, and does miss it and I do miss the class dependencies like tank and healer but I am enjoying the game here and it seems my server is very active.

I also have been a guild leader for over 10 years. In addition to running alliances for raiding in other games.

I initially was not going to be the leader of a guild here, as I personally just don’t have the time I had previously (working 60-70 hour weeks do that to you). I ended up starting a guild here that was just people from previous games and their family and friends. A guild platform I used to really dislike, has turned out to work out amazingly well for me here, as it has been an extremely casual stance, and outside of 2 people everyone is just single tagged.
Now like the OP I am someone who when running a required forum sign ups, applications to be filled out and a recruitment period. I too would often get the, you mean I have to go to your website to fill out an application?! Thats such of a waste of time I don’t want to join you! Well sure it hinders quick growth but you get quality people who tend to stick it out and get a vested interest in things. If someone couldn’t bother to go online to fill out some basic information for an online game…then we had no interest. This was both for my guild and my raid alliance I ran. Sure we stayed small but it was quality. I still have people I was guilded with in 99/2000 in EQ1 (I wasn’t leader for that guild, but since took on the job) who are still with me. In addition to people who joined up here in guild wars 2 through family aspect this guild is being run in. We also did not allow multi guilding until Sw:tor (simply due to republic vs empire)

Events here I find a little more difficult as a lot of us are raid endgame oriented and that doesn’t truely exist here. But we do get together for events, dungeons and special game events. Our guild is only about 30 people, and our guild chat is pretty lively too, sure there are times it is quiet but we carry a good amount of conversation.

While I agree multi guild can hurt a guild, at the same time it makes it all that much more important to get people who fit with your members and that will make them not look further. I have had people actually turn down guild invites to other guilds just because they saw it as being disloyal to their current guild.

Been 45 minutes on Tarnished Coast too.
He is currently just standing on top of the bank.