Guild Wars 2

I think the main reason for hostility toward GvG guilds is that they often come across as snobbish, elitist and uncaring about the server in general.

I sympathize with the GvG guilds in their effort to make a competitive mini-game mod, because WvW is not competitive in the slightest.

But from my purely anecdotal experiences both with and against GvG guilds, they log on for a few hours, crush face against lesser organized opponents, do a GvG match or two, and log off. To use a football analogy, GvG guilds play great first-quarters, but the referees insist on keeping score for all four quarters.

The scutwork of upgrading and holding buildings, scouting for enemy forces, playing off-hours, defending while outnumbered, the stuff that actual holds a server’s rating together is left to the plebes. Who rightly or wrongly, still care about the score.