You may have been wondering what happened to Guildwatch since I haven't done a posting about the Guildwatch column since 16 December. That's because the author, Mike Schramm, has left WOW Insider to work at Joystiq. WOW Insider has started a replacement column called The Classifieds. It isn't going to discuss the drama we all loved, however. It just lists guilds recruiting (not on the Solo MMO Player's realm naturally), guild milestones, and rankings of guilds in various areas, plus a few mentions of players that stepped up and made a dungeon five man work.
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/13/the-classifieds-news-briefs-on-guilds-and-players/
Boring. I MISS YOU, MIKE!
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Guildwatch: The Ninjia Video Edition
This week's Guildwatch features a ninja. Let me quote Mike Schramm here, "Over on Dath'remar, Tuffauzy of Heavy Artillery put together a pickup group for the big black dragon, and once the dragon was down, he proceeded to go AFK, with no reason at all given. After about 15 minutes, most of the raiders had split and left the group, but four people hung around, waiting for loot to be distributed. We're told Tuffauzy then re-appeared, grabbed all the loot for himself, hearthed to Dalaran, and logged off. Pretty wild. So not only did you take all of the loot, but you made people sit around for 15 minutes before you did it -- why? Because you thought they would leave and you wouldn't lose your reputation? Interesting procedure there."
http://www.wow.com/2009/12/16/guildwatch-were-over-applications-too/
In honor of ninjas in the new content, here is a slightly raunchy machinima from Nymh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWyBWM5B64
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http://www.wow.com/2009/12/16/guildwatch-were-over-applications-too/
In honor of ninjas in the new content, here is a slightly raunchy machinima from Nymh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWyBWM5B64
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Guildwatch the Sexist Edition
This week's Guildwatch is full of charity fundraisers and a guild member with a broken femur and hip in an accident in his basement calling for help via Vent since he couldn't make it to the telephone. Very dull, though praiseworthy.
However, one guild applicant who did well in the audition raid and in his application to Pitch Black was turned down, then turned on the guild and called them names, including "little girls." Sexist statement of the week. I'll have to introduce him to the little girls I know so they can peck his eyes out.
http://www.wow.com/2009/12/02/guildwatch-you-guys-raid-like-little-girls/
As always there is plenty of recruiting and downing of instances but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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However, one guild applicant who did well in the audition raid and in his application to Pitch Black was turned down, then turned on the guild and called them names, including "little girls." Sexist statement of the week. I'll have to introduce him to the little girls I know so they can peck his eyes out.
http://www.wow.com/2009/12/02/guildwatch-you-guys-raid-like-little-girls/
As always there is plenty of recruiting and downing of instances but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Guildwatch Before Thanksgiving
Once upon a time there was a guild called Equilibrium. It was run by a couple who were co-GMs. Then there was another officer who fly across country to meet the girlfriend in real life. Breakup of the couple, the old boyfriend quit the guild and the game, and--to top it all off--the realm has its own rapper historian who immortalized the whole love story on YouTube.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/25/guildwatch-analyzing-the-situation/#continued
The video is here for you romantics. It is Not Safe For Work (NSFW).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7Bbror2g8
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http://www.wow.com/2009/11/25/guildwatch-analyzing-the-situation/#continued
The video is here for you romantics. It is Not Safe For Work (NSFW).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7Bbror2g8
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Guildwatch: Guilds at the Center of the Universe
It is Wednesday again and Guildwatch is back! My favorite drama involves the guild Legion Unleashed whose GM just left. The replacement was kicking out members right and left, complaining about the officers, etc. It was a mess, enough so that the replacement GM applied to another guild and told them right on the application he planned to ninja his old guild bank. There's honesty and then there is honesty, I guess. Not surprisingly, the new guild didn't accept the replacement GM, especially after the forums had his fellow members piling on complaints about him. Our hero (or villain) has a classic quote in the forums in response: "these guilds in which this game is revolved around is udder bull*%#*". He also claims that everyone will fail without him. So guilds are not the center of the universe but he is? I'd be more impressed if his grammar was better, frankly.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/18/guildwatch-these-guilds-in-which-this-game-is-revolved-around/
As usual, there is more drama in the link above, where you'll find many guilds downing instances and others recruiting but none of them on the Solo MMO Players' guild.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/11/18/guildwatch-these-guilds-in-which-this-game-is-revolved-around/
As usual, there is more drama in the link above, where you'll find many guilds downing instances and others recruiting but none of them on the Solo MMO Players' guild.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Guildwatch
Guildwatch's writer seems to think guilds have pretty much conquered all the raids and are just waiting for Patch 3.3's Icecrown to move back into raid mode. Clearly he has never visited The Solo MMO Player's realm where 3-5 guilds raid and everyone else does, well, not much.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/11/guildwatch-the-waiting-game/
Fortunately, folks being what they are, there is plenty of drama going on. Let me quote Guildwatch here--
"Tip: anything labeled as 'a serious anaylisis of the Daggerspine server' [sic] is basically like lighting up a pile of oil-soaked rags and standing back to watch the fire. To be fair, Tomax does say that his guild, Imperium, has been a disappointment, but then the blame starts right up, and obviously the other guilds aren't happy to be given his "pep talk." It's weird, right? You'd think that calling other guilds on the server a "cancer" would cheer them up and help them down bosses."
By the way, you can read the "anaylisis" here.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20565930036&sid=1&pageNo=1
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http://www.wow.com/2009/11/11/guildwatch-the-waiting-game/
Fortunately, folks being what they are, there is plenty of drama going on. Let me quote Guildwatch here--
"Tip: anything labeled as 'a serious anaylisis of the Daggerspine server' [sic] is basically like lighting up a pile of oil-soaked rags and standing back to watch the fire. To be fair, Tomax does say that his guild, Imperium, has been a disappointment, but then the blame starts right up, and obviously the other guilds aren't happy to be given his "pep talk." It's weird, right? You'd think that calling other guilds on the server a "cancer" would cheer them up and help them down bosses."
By the way, you can read the "anaylisis" here.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20565930036&sid=1&pageNo=1
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Guildwatch: The Grifter Edition
Wednesday's Guildwatch brings us news of Idinged who ninja'd the Onyxia mount according to report. Guildwatch hears the thief doesn't even have the flying skill necessary. Of course when did that ever stop someone from taking what wasn't theirs?
The Prometheans's GM has a new rule--Wear the guild tabard or you won't get loot from the raid. Has my mother taken up playing WOW? This sounds like the sort of rule she specialized in when I was 8.
Finally, I have to quote Guildwatch directly for this:
"...the pic above [that heads the Guildwatch column this week] is of a poor guy who piped up in a Trade channel to say that he'd purchased the Unusual Compass for a whopping 425g because the dude who sold it to him claimed it would lead him off to a Time-Lost Proto drake. In reality, all the compass does is point you in a random direction, and it's obtained randomly from the fishing quests. But hey -- you may not be able to fool all of the people all of the time, but you can almost always fool at least one person out of 425g."
Read all about this and more, plus guilds recruiting and downing instances (but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm) here.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/04/guildwatch-no-tabard-no-loot/
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The Prometheans's GM has a new rule--Wear the guild tabard or you won't get loot from the raid. Has my mother taken up playing WOW? This sounds like the sort of rule she specialized in when I was 8.
Finally, I have to quote Guildwatch directly for this:
"...the pic above [that heads the Guildwatch column this week] is of a poor guy who piped up in a Trade channel to say that he'd purchased the Unusual Compass for a whopping 425g because the dude who sold it to him claimed it would lead him off to a Time-Lost Proto drake. In reality, all the compass does is point you in a random direction, and it's obtained randomly from the fishing quests. But hey -- you may not be able to fool all of the people all of the time, but you can almost always fool at least one person out of 425g."
Read all about this and more, plus guilds recruiting and downing instances (but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm) here.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/04/guildwatch-no-tabard-no-loot/
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Guildwatch Halloweenies
It's Thursday and the Guildwatch column is here, complete with guilds dissolving before our eyes, two guilds in an 8 page forum shouting match (You suck. No, YOU suck! Etc.), and the GM of Endgame on the Boulderfist realm using faction and server transfers to vanish with the guild bank. This would be old news except he posted a brief sad movie about the whole experience in the second link below. What's next? Guildwatch the Movie?!
http://www.wow.com/2009/10/28/guildwatch-more-common-than-you-think/
http://www.boulderfistendgame.com/
This last tidbit is so good I'm quoting Guildwatch's author in full:
"This one's almost scary -- a few months ago, Humble on Crushridge stole Archon's raid ID, and locked them out for two days by camping 25 characters in Ulduar so they couldn't progress. A little while after that, a shaman named Marvingaye applied to Humble and got accepted as a raider. On the week that Trial of the Crusader's hard mode was released, Marvingaye revealed his true self as a sleeper agent for Archon: he went back to Ulduar and ToC after a raid, began the Algalon timer, activated the keepers, and extended the lockout. Then he went to ToC, both 10- and 25-man, and used all of their wipes up (remember, this is the first week it was open, where all of the server firsts were up for grabs). Very epic. Moral of the story: don't ever, ever cross Archon on Crushridge. They know how to get their revenge, and they're patient enough to wait on it."
Finally, there is lots of raiding and recruiting, just not on the Solo MMO Player's realm. Happy Halloween!
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http://www.wow.com/2009/10/28/guildwatch-more-common-than-you-think/
http://www.boulderfistendgame.com/
This last tidbit is so good I'm quoting Guildwatch's author in full:
"This one's almost scary -- a few months ago, Humble on Crushridge stole Archon's raid ID, and locked them out for two days by camping 25 characters in Ulduar so they couldn't progress. A little while after that, a shaman named Marvingaye applied to Humble and got accepted as a raider. On the week that Trial of the Crusader's hard mode was released, Marvingaye revealed his true self as a sleeper agent for Archon: he went back to Ulduar and ToC after a raid, began the Algalon timer, activated the keepers, and extended the lockout. Then he went to ToC, both 10- and 25-man, and used all of their wipes up (remember, this is the first week it was open, where all of the server firsts were up for grabs). Very epic. Moral of the story: don't ever, ever cross Archon on Crushridge. They know how to get their revenge, and they're patient enough to wait on it."
Finally, there is lots of raiding and recruiting, just not on the Solo MMO Player's realm. Happy Halloween!
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Guildwatch (The Political Version)
Last week we had Guildwatch, the legal edition. This week it's politics. Right out of the box someone complains about the prices a seller is asking on the Auction House and saying that the naughty seller is "clearly an Obama voter."
http://www.wow.com/2009/10/21/guildwatch-enjoy-the-soviet-union/
Feel free to explain that one to me.
A raider snuck in a second loot roll, got caught, claimed someone else was playing their toon briefly, showed up in the forums claiming it was the loot master's fault, and then showed up in the forms again under a fake name also claiming this all was someone else's fault. Actually, this does sound like the behavior of most politicians when caught with their hand in the cookie jar, doesn't it?
Of course there's the usual recruiting and downing of instances, but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm. Wonder what profession is up next week? Tantrums from chef raiders who made the perfect buff food and no one appreciated it?
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http://www.wow.com/2009/10/21/guildwatch-enjoy-the-soviet-union/
Feel free to explain that one to me.
A raider snuck in a second loot roll, got caught, claimed someone else was playing their toon briefly, showed up in the forums claiming it was the loot master's fault, and then showed up in the forms again under a fake name also claiming this all was someone else's fault. Actually, this does sound like the behavior of most politicians when caught with their hand in the cookie jar, doesn't it?
Of course there's the usual recruiting and downing of instances, but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm. Wonder what profession is up next week? Tantrums from chef raiders who made the perfect buff food and no one appreciated it?
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Guildwatch: The Legal Edition
This week's Guildwatch comments on the widespread threats to sue seen in the game by begging anyone who actually sees legal repercussions during a game to let WOW Insider know immediately. Since Blizzard allows many things in WOW that get you into big trouble in real life, I'd like to second that motion. Blizzard will clean up the chat line in 30 seconds flat if a lawsuit threatens their profits.
http://www.wow.com/2009/10/14/guildwatch-my-laywer-is-processing-a-subpoena/
Drama: The co-GM of Xenocide emptied the guild bank, promoted a former officer, kicked a bunch of people out of Xenocide, then just disbanded the whole guild. File this under "Four Ways to Destroy a Guild." Didn't work, though. The guild is reforming as Placeholder and is recruiting on the Kalecgos server.
Frostmourne has had accusations of raid ID theft flying recently but the two guilds accused of stealing say that it was a multiple guild raid. Guildwatch points out that the flame war is so intense, an outsider has no way of figuring out what really happened. Short of a lawsuit, probably.
In more legal news, two ninjas left their Alliance guild and headed to the Horde side for more thievery. Unfortunately for them, their new guild understood exactly who they were and what was planned and decided to wait to /gkick them in the most spectacular fashion possible. Our ninjas picked a fight with someone who immediately tossed them out on their ear when s/he was promoted to an officer, then the ninjas threatened to contact a "laywer" for "processing a subpoena." (I'd take the ninjas more seriously if their threats were spelled correctly.) The whole thing is available as an angry rant on Vent which you can listen to by finding the link in the URL above.
By the way, if you go /afk while raiding with Till Death on Auchindoun, you are going to be sorry. The Not Safe For Work video link is below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cXnEOr3bw
In non-legal news, there is a lot of recruiting and downing of instances going on, just not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/10/14/guildwatch-my-laywer-is-processing-a-subpoena/
Drama: The co-GM of Xenocide emptied the guild bank, promoted a former officer, kicked a bunch of people out of Xenocide, then just disbanded the whole guild. File this under "Four Ways to Destroy a Guild." Didn't work, though. The guild is reforming as Placeholder and is recruiting on the Kalecgos server.
Frostmourne has had accusations of raid ID theft flying recently but the two guilds accused of stealing say that it was a multiple guild raid. Guildwatch points out that the flame war is so intense, an outsider has no way of figuring out what really happened. Short of a lawsuit, probably.
In more legal news, two ninjas left their Alliance guild and headed to the Horde side for more thievery. Unfortunately for them, their new guild understood exactly who they were and what was planned and decided to wait to /gkick them in the most spectacular fashion possible. Our ninjas picked a fight with someone who immediately tossed them out on their ear when s/he was promoted to an officer, then the ninjas threatened to contact a "laywer" for "processing a subpoena." (I'd take the ninjas more seriously if their threats were spelled correctly.) The whole thing is available as an angry rant on Vent which you can listen to by finding the link in the URL above.
By the way, if you go /afk while raiding with Till Death on Auchindoun, you are going to be sorry. The Not Safe For Work video link is below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cXnEOr3bw
In non-legal news, there is a lot of recruiting and downing of instances going on, just not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Guildwatch: The Movie
This week the column has a nice video of the revamped Onyxia instance to view, as well as guild breakup and guild transfer drama. Nothing really special, though you would think a guild with the reputation for stealing everything in sight would realize that they have a rep and not bother transferring here, there and everywhere.
http://www.wow.com/2009/10/07/guildwatch-redemption/
Of course there is the usual downing of instances and recruiting, but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/10/07/guildwatch-redemption/
Of course there is the usual downing of instances and recruiting, but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Guildwatch Today
The usual drama, theft and guild breakups are happening at Guildwatch this week, plus raiding and guild recruiting (except not on Solo MMO Player's realm).
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/30/guildwatch-have-a-nice-day-baddie/
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http://www.wow.com/2009/09/30/guildwatch-have-a-nice-day-baddie/
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Guildwatch Offers Warning Signs To Watch For
The Guildwatch column is a bit late but makes up for it by giving you a guild with three warning signs you ought to watch out for when considering joining a guild--first of all, the guild name (Instability) wouldn't give me a good feeling. Then the fact that the guild is run by co-guild leaders that happen to be romantically involved is never a good sign. Of course the guild leaders' names (Tinkerbell and Anonymous) are also a tip-off that perhaps you should run away, run away!
Regardless of whether you should heed warning signs, this guild's been full of drama lately. Members complained of Tinkerbell's behavior in raids to no avail as Anonymous wouldn't hear any criticism of her. Then it came out that Anon was recruiting new players just to blame them for raid failures Tinkerbell caused and a lot of guild members quit. Folks also complained Tinkerbell was just using the guild to pick up fragments for the Legendary Mace. She admitted it, then she and Anon looted the guild bank and waltzed away to Legion of Accordance where they've been promised raiding slots to continue completing the Mace.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/23/guildwatch-beware-of-tourists/
Doesn't get any better than that!
On other topics a lot of the guild drama this week centers on the new transfer program. Many guilds complain high level guilds are transferring (at $25 a person) to a new server just to pick up the first raiding achievements, then switching back to the original server (another $25). "Tourists" is a kind word for these folks. Carpetbaggers is another term which I'd use. At any rate, Blizzard makes money off these transfers and hasn't made any moves to protect new servers from guilds showing up from older ones to nab these achievements.
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Regardless of whether you should heed warning signs, this guild's been full of drama lately. Members complained of Tinkerbell's behavior in raids to no avail as Anonymous wouldn't hear any criticism of her. Then it came out that Anon was recruiting new players just to blame them for raid failures Tinkerbell caused and a lot of guild members quit. Folks also complained Tinkerbell was just using the guild to pick up fragments for the Legendary Mace. She admitted it, then she and Anon looted the guild bank and waltzed away to Legion of Accordance where they've been promised raiding slots to continue completing the Mace.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/23/guildwatch-beware-of-tourists/
Doesn't get any better than that!
On other topics a lot of the guild drama this week centers on the new transfer program. Many guilds complain high level guilds are transferring (at $25 a person) to a new server just to pick up the first raiding achievements, then switching back to the original server (another $25). "Tourists" is a kind word for these folks. Carpetbaggers is another term which I'd use. At any rate, Blizzard makes money off these transfers and hasn't made any moves to protect new servers from guilds showing up from older ones to nab these achievements.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Guildwatch Fishing Mafia
A guild called Pillage on the Garona-H server has started selling fishing licenses for Wintergrasp. They've announced it on the WOW forum and everything (second link below). A license to fish costs 500 gold for an individual or 5000 gold for a guild. Don't pay and Pillage promises you'll regret it.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/16/guildwatch-yesterday-wow-was-such-an-easy-game-to-play/
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=19675937595&sid=1&pageNo=1
Isn't that what we call in real life protection money? It always astounds me when things that are illegal in real life happen in WOW.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/09/16/guildwatch-yesterday-wow-was-such-an-easy-game-to-play/
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=19675937595&sid=1&pageNo=1
Isn't that what we call in real life protection money? It always astounds me when things that are illegal in real life happen in WOW.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Guildwatch (Illustrated)
Guildwatch has arrived. Hurrah! More drama, more angst, more fun! And photos--Man, do we have photos today! [Not to mention a free exclamation point with each sentence.] Click on this picture to get a good look.
Dark Haven of Baelgun launched a protest about the instance problem that is supposed to be fixed after they got booted out of Ulduar. Photo above of the dancing cows from Mike Schramm, the genius who amuses us each Wedneday (or sometimes Thursdays) with the Guildwatch column.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/09/guildwatch-it-was-my-friend/
A guild mistress and her boyfriend disbanded their guild, saying their studies needed more attention. Strangely, they took the guild bank with them when they vanished and set up a new guild called Reflera on the Terrokar realm. Beware! Education is bad for the health of your guildbank!
This link takes you to a troll posting by someone who applied to a guild and was rejected. The trash talking that resulted isn't even in their own words, they cut and pasted sentences from elsewhere. Be original in your insults, folks.
http://www.outofcombatguild.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2177
Sadly, the above link is unavailable right now (someone is embarassed, huh?) so I have one of my own for you. This links to three separate guild applications from the same person. Wonder if they ever got in a guild? Somehow I think not, assuming that the guilds s/he applied to actually read the application.
http://www.the-core-guild.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6164
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Dark Haven of Baelgun launched a protest about the instance problem that is supposed to be fixed after they got booted out of Ulduar. Photo above of the dancing cows from Mike Schramm, the genius who amuses us each Wedneday (or sometimes Thursdays) with the Guildwatch column.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/09/guildwatch-it-was-my-friend/
A guild mistress and her boyfriend disbanded their guild, saying their studies needed more attention. Strangely, they took the guild bank with them when they vanished and set up a new guild called Reflera on the Terrokar realm. Beware! Education is bad for the health of your guildbank!
This link takes you to a troll posting by someone who applied to a guild and was rejected. The trash talking that resulted isn't even in their own words, they cut and pasted sentences from elsewhere. Be original in your insults, folks.
http://www.outofcombatguild.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2177
Sadly, the above link is unavailable right now (someone is embarassed, huh?) so I have one of my own for you. This links to three separate guild applications from the same person. Wonder if they ever got in a guild? Somehow I think not, assuming that the guilds s/he applied to actually read the application.
http://www.the-core-guild.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6164
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Guildwatch At Long Last
Guildwatch appeared a bit late this week, but your weekly dose of drama has finally arrived.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/02/guildwatch-into-the-coliseum/
The winner of this week's Class GM award goes to Scarred of NC Gaming who was accidentally passed a stack of shards which he promptly sold in Trade Chat. Yes, he really is the GM of NC Gaming. Or at least he was. I imagine he might have been demoted after this event.
The Take the Mount and Run Award goes to Korron who went on a raid with his/her guildmates. Someone rolled Greed of 100 and the Ashes of Al'ar rare mount dropped, but Korron wanted both and took them, quit the raid, quit the guild, changed his/her name and has vanished into unknown realms. Guildwatch's columnist thinks there must have been bad blood already but I think this is just Greed Personified.
Horde Smash Good wins the Run Away from This Guild award when they /gkicked a bunch of folks from the guild, including one poor guy who had been away from the game for a bit while he was in the hospital.
As usual there is a lot of raiding and guild recruiting going on, just not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/09/02/guildwatch-into-the-coliseum/
The winner of this week's Class GM award goes to Scarred of NC Gaming who was accidentally passed a stack of shards which he promptly sold in Trade Chat. Yes, he really is the GM of NC Gaming. Or at least he was. I imagine he might have been demoted after this event.
The Take the Mount and Run Award goes to Korron who went on a raid with his/her guildmates. Someone rolled Greed of 100 and the Ashes of Al'ar rare mount dropped, but Korron wanted both and took them, quit the raid, quit the guild, changed his/her name and has vanished into unknown realms. Guildwatch's columnist thinks there must have been bad blood already but I think this is just Greed Personified.
Horde Smash Good wins the Run Away from This Guild award when they /gkicked a bunch of folks from the guild, including one poor guy who had been away from the game for a bit while he was in the hospital.
As usual there is a lot of raiding and guild recruiting going on, just not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Guildwatch At Last
I was beginning to worry that Guildwatch Wednesday wasn't going to happen this week, not after all the excitement of last week's BlizzCon. But there is always drama with the guilds, never fear. This week we have a new player who used a guild to Level to 80, dumped the guild, then was back shortly asking to be reinstated. Somehow this didn't happen as his former guildies actually remembered the insult. There are ninjas, as usual, and lots of raiding and recruiting, although none on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
And this week Drunken Alliance on Thunderlord has made their own rap dance video. They are recruiting "in case you want to be a backup dancer in the next video."
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Guildwatch Wednesday (Please Shut Up Edition)
Once again Wednesday has rolled around, and Guildwatch has appeared on my monitor, full of the delights of WOW drama, tantrums, breakups and of course, theft. As always, lots of instances are being downed and many guilds are recruiting but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
In the theft department, two members of On the Drop decided at 1 a.m. one morning their guild wasn't progressing in raiding fast enough, so they disbanded the guild and took 16,000 gold and over 200 Abyss Crystals with them when they turned out the lights. How a guild that isn't progressing in raiding ended up with more than 200 Abyss Crystals from the highest level new content and that much gold is a question the Guildwatch columnist can't answer.
Evil Avatar's leaders decided they should turn into a 10 man guild, so they tossed out everyone without notice except for 10 lucky (?) people, some of whom had no idea what was going on, and as a reward for their labors in remaking the guild, kept all the contents of the original guild bank (that came from the ten chosen as well as those tossed out on their ear) for themselves.
The WOW cynic Cold Comfort's blog outlines how they tried to fairly distribute loot when a guild he belonged to broke up, in case there are any rational and honest guilds out there. I'm just saying this might come in hand someday somewhere. I hope.
In other guild drama, I'm going to quote Mike Schramm here as there's no way to top what he said. Click on the purple text to go to the hyperlinks Mike mentions.
"'I had seen my position on this server for a long time. Without a doubt or uncertainty on my mind, I knew I was one of the top 3 Tanks on this server if not the one.' When it starts out with a bragging egomaniac like that complaining that he can't find a guild on the server (and is so frustrated he's going to transfer), you know this thread is going to be good. Make sure you stick with it, too, and you'll be rewarded with gems like this: 'For me getting in a guild is as easy as 1 2 3 regardless of whether they're an amazing top guild or low, hell i don't even need to apply on a forum as cocky as that sounds but it's true.' Really? 'Easy as 1 2 3'? Then why are you begging to be invited to a guild on the realm forums again?"
I can answer that question, Mike. Egomania rules!
However, the top item of the week is this YouTube complaint from someone who thinks he is entitled to a ring from a loot drop. "I've been doing Naxx since the week Wrath came out...." I've seen long-time girlfriends less interested in a ring than this guy!
"Please shut up." And wash that kid's mouth out with soap.
See you next Guildwatch Wednesday.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Guildwatch Wednesday (Breaking Up In Style)
The Behavior Your Mother Would Be Ashamed Of Award goes this week to the GM of Dreamcatchers who went to a party, ranted about his guildmates' pathetic raiding skills for almost 9 profane minutes, then posted the video on YouTube. Not surprisingly, the guild broke up almost immediately.
http://www.wow.com/2009/08/12/guildwatch-loot-reservations-required/
I'll quote Mike Schramm here (he writes Guildwatch for WOW Insider) about the runner up for this award-- "Jundivyn, GM of Nerfed at Birth on Terenas, was apparently so unhappy that his childhood friend and roomate /gquit the guild that he apparently not only kicked him out of the apartment they shared, but he also allegedly tossed his stuff in the rain. Nice. Lots of other fun stories pop up about Jundivyn in that thread as well, from his child care advice ("your the adault, you can tell him to get in bed and thats what he has to do, no matter how bad he screams thats all he can do realy.") to using another guildie as a bargaining chip to keep a third guildie from leaving the guild (we're not sure how that worked either -- "you stay or I /gkick him"?). What a guild leader."
And what a speller!
Another contestant for this award was the guild leader of Absolution on Dragonblight who became discouraged at the lack of raiding enthusiasm among the membership and quit. How did he qualify for award consideration? He took the guild bank's contents with him when he left.
As always the Guildwatch column has news of raiding and recruiting, none of which is happening on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/08/12/guildwatch-loot-reservations-required/
I'll quote Mike Schramm here (he writes Guildwatch for WOW Insider) about the runner up for this award-- "Jundivyn, GM of Nerfed at Birth on Terenas, was apparently so unhappy that his childhood friend and roomate /gquit the guild that he apparently not only kicked him out of the apartment they shared, but he also allegedly tossed his stuff in the rain. Nice. Lots of other fun stories pop up about Jundivyn in that thread as well, from his child care advice ("your the adault, you can tell him to get in bed and thats what he has to do, no matter how bad he screams thats all he can do realy.") to using another guildie as a bargaining chip to keep a third guildie from leaving the guild (we're not sure how that worked either -- "you stay or I /gkick him"?). What a guild leader."
And what a speller!
Another contestant for this award was the guild leader of Absolution on Dragonblight who became discouraged at the lack of raiding enthusiasm among the membership and quit. How did he qualify for award consideration? He took the guild bank's contents with him when he left.
As always the Guildwatch column has news of raiding and recruiting, none of which is happening on the Solo MMO Player's realm.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Guildwatch (Audio Version) "Something's Not Adding Up"
Guildwatch is a little slow this week, probably due to the disruption of Patch 3.2 hitting.
http://www.wow.com/2009/08/05/guildwatch-he-makes-everything-better/
This week we have a two part audio recording of folks in a guild arguing over what the officers are or are not doing with flasks. "The rules say...." This goes on and on but Guildwatch says that there was an exodus from the guild shortly thereafter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIbZtYt-4Tg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZANhyK54L2w
Sure I am glad we aren't in **that** guild.
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http://www.wow.com/2009/08/05/guildwatch-he-makes-everything-better/
This week we have a two part audio recording of folks in a guild arguing over what the officers are or are not doing with flasks. "The rules say...." This goes on and on but Guildwatch says that there was an exodus from the guild shortly thereafter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIbZtYt-4Tg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZANhyK54L2w
Sure I am glad we aren't in **that** guild.
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Copyright Solo MMO Player at http://solommo.blogspot.com
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