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First off, I know exactly what you are going through. I wrote this up after the guild meeting to help this guild up with my experiences as guild officer. First off I should tell you who I am and why I am typing this up so you don’t think I’m some f*er that is trying to take over or something like that. I started playing this game since January 2005 in the Windrunner realm and I have been in two guilds eventually holding officer positions in both. I did not have any real life officer friends so I earned the rank of officer in these guilds. I will tell you my experience in the second guild so at the end I hope you take my words in heart. I too attend school (21 years of age, fall 2006 is my final semester) and to understand my point, my career goal is to join the a FBI department that deals with violent crime investigation and research. Basically I want to be a law enforcement officer and many people know this REQUIRES team work which is the reason for the way I act. I had a strong comradeship with my old guild and I understand this burn out that you talked about. It happened to me and I had to sadly take a 5 yes FIVE month break from the game. Its interesting seeing how you and the guild is going through the same thing I went through. Drog (the GM of my old guild) and I started to talk together about starting some end game material but as SoE we do not have the amount of human resources to start one up so we ended up making an alliance. I’m going to spare you the details but we had a merger talk meeting (which I could not attend) and the guild broke up when I logged on the next day. Here is the story of this break up: They (drog being the head of the meeting) had a meeting about merging with a fellow alliance guild. One of our members (a 60 priest) decided to go to another guild which sparked a lot of guild tensions and eventually the breakup and merger of the guild. (this meeting occurred Sunday). The following Monday I heard of this and now I gotta handle officer duty which was basically making sure everyone to move everyone to an alliance guild and to make sure everyone was happy. I had many private conversations with everyone which deeply made me sad because I had a strong bond with all the guild members and they didn’t directly tell me this but it felt like they are saying that I could have prevented this: one of the major reasons why I had this burn out break.) I had private conversations with Drog and I felt that he was even more saddened by this because he feels that he betrayed everyone even though he did what he thought was best and what everyone wanted: an end game raiding guild. We were originally a laid back guild but converted into an end game guild. The day I became officer (the same day the guild converted) I basically spent all my gaming time fixing up the guild charter, the website, and attending meetings and planning out everything with the fellow officers but the other officers were a bit lazy and all the work ended up on the shoulders of Drog and I (severe burn out since we had to juggle RL + guild + alliance.) I’m not going to bore you so I’ll end it here but I have a lot of old guild info that I would like to give to you and your fellow officers. I’m doing this because (I don’t know if it’s a bad habit) I have this thing in me (not my guts) that leans towards helping (reason why I’m heading into a crap pay law enforcement career). Its my nature, what can I say. What I see about this guild: I see a highly lack of organization from this guild. I see the ranks but its hard to see who has this leadership role. Granted we are a big family but hey, families have parents, the leadership and it is clearly seen. My old guild had a leadership role where we had a GM and officers with specific jobs:
GuildMaster 2nd in command Officer of events Assistant officer of events Officer of recruitment Assistant officer of recruitment Etc, etc And a few general officers. We had a total of about 5 officers and a few veterans that were assistant officers of X role.
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