Good question.
I was one of the founding commanders on Jade Quarry for NA and about 90% of my pin was from donations at the time. After spending many hours running and expanding a guild of 400+ intl members and cropping over a dozen new hopefuls commanders, I’ve noticed those that just want the pin without lack of work tend to abuse it.
Its great to run around with a pin but you need to know what your doing. Back around release date, everything was new so it wasn’t so displeasing but nowadays people need to come in with a good sense of judgment, response, and responsibility regardless of the forces they have behind their back, especially in a T1 server.
What I also come to see is some commanders need to be realistic. Most commanders think when they get a pin, they will have an unyielding support of followers but the fact are they need to establish leadership and build their repertoire through time, patience and work.
To many times I’ve seen commanders buy pins, get frustrated for a few days and just drop the whole thing all together. Good commanders are those that don’t have rely on a silly icon to get people under their wing. Besides, many of the top guilds I’ve seen run directly under a solo target & route just as well with the use of a VOIP.
To be frank, I donate to those that can voluntarily put up the work without asking for the whole package. Allot of people abuse it for status nowadays.
