The joy and heartache of guilds.

I have often joked about being the killer of guilds. My EQ guild was fine and as far as I know still going strong. It all started with WoW. I joined a guild with a bunch of my old EQMac friends and we were doing really well for awhile. Unfortunately the guild master was one of those micro-managers. His fingers were in all the pies. This of course gives his other officers the feeling of not being trusted. I don't want to go into to many details but needless to say I let him know exactly how I felt and others followed. I think I was more the catalyst to get the ball rolling. He left the guild and went his own way, but I lost a good friend that day. Or someone I felt was a good friend. He hasn't talked to me since.

The second death was when I moved to an RP server in WoW. I joined a somewhat small but friendly guild and built new relationships with people. All in all I had a good time. Well the guild master decided he was done with the guild and put it in my capable hands. Unfortunately my hands were neither capable or able to keep the guild afloat. The guild eventually died out and was no more.

Now I am still in the third guild and I love it here. We have had our ups and down and such. I will tell you this, one thing I can't really understand is the need to lie to people in game. Well, I can't say that I have done it before. Later only to apologize profusely and understand if people wanted nothing to do with me. I also hate manipulative people. I finally called one out on it. Unfortunately they took most of the guild with them when they left. I am sure they took great pleasure in the emptiness of our guild after that. I really don't care. The guild is now a small faction of friends. I like it that way. Yes, we are recruiting, but no not openly. You really have to get to know us and become someone we trust now to join us. We have maybe five active members.

I wish there was a way we could have no drama. Unfortunately some people thrive on it and bring it every where they go. It blindsides you. You don't expect it but when it happens it effects everything! Finally it all blows over only for something new to pop up and more drama to come along.

Gaming has taught me that the human race is full of people who will use and abuse those of us who allow it. I am a nice person and usually am very happy to help people. All too often though those people begin to use you. I saw it this morning in my LOTR online guild. People using one guild member to help them do a quest they should have been able to solo. I get frustrated with idiocy as well. Maybe the general public is lucky I stay hidden in my home most of the time.

First post yayness!

So I thought about how I would start this blog and I thought about what this blog would entail. Then I thought wow I am a really boring person. So I am a mother and a gamer. I am sure there are plenty of us out there. I like to believe we are some secret society lurking in the background of your favorite multi player games.

So I started playing mmo's with EQMac ages ago. This was before I became a mom and got married and well when I was free! Nah I don't mean that. Things just change when you have kids. It no longer matters how often your character dies. Mainly because you take off running from the computer screaming ."NO! Don't stick the USB port into the wall socket!" Well maybe I am the only mother who has had to do that. Groups become even more fun. I usually have played healing classes and grouping with me can sometimes be the luck of the draw.

Or better yet lets play is the priest paying attention. My last MMo was World of Warcraft. It was fun but it is slowly starting to lose it's luster for me. I have determined the life span of an mmo for me is four years and I have hit that with WoW. So recently the husband and I moved onto Lord of the Rings online. It's actually an okay game so far. We aren't as serious as we were before. And we have tons of alts!

So what this blog is going to be about is the social and other aspects of playing MMOs. Maybe forays into guilds and the inner working of them. The drama people cause and how funny I can find that at time. So stick around and enjoy. I will try to post almost daily. Maybe add fun antidotes dealing with my family and friends as well.