Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader’s Handbook, available now from No Starch Press.
It’s bad enough for an officer when you start losing core raiders. As any long-time officer can tell you, though, things can always go from bad to worse. This week, a guild leader falls victim to a member’s alt guild that suddenly turns into anything but.
Hey Scott–
We lost three of our core raiders yesterday, and may be losing more.
The girlfriend of the Raider Leader/MT in our casual 10m decided to start an “alt” guild. Not a big deal in its own right, myself and the other GM were a bit concerned about her underlying intentions; she’d been a core raider up until about three weeks prior to her founding this new guild. Myself and the other GM are not sure why the girlfriend stopped raiding with us; it was a choice of hers, and when we inquired as to whether everything was all right, we were always assured it was.
Co-GM and I noticed that to start her alt-guild, she’d recruited several members from our guild: mostly alts, but what concerned us was the handful of mains that left us to join the alt guild. Slightly annoyed that we, the leadership, hadn’t been notified of her intentions, we spoke amongst ourselves with how to best handle this; if it’s truly an alt guild, we should not have to worry about our ranks thinning. We weren’t going to reprimand her, demote her, or remove her remaining character from the guild. We’re not like that. She, along with her boyfriend, had been kind and helpful in the past.
Late the other night, I saw that the boyfriend, along with the another core raid dps who I’d been particularly close with, had left the guild to join up with the girlfriend’s alt guild. I was crushed.
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