femalegamer

Back in 2005 I would have laughed if you told me people could forge long and lasting relationships via a game. Never, ever would I have believed you! Yet, here I am again, seeing my guild home of the past year crumbling and feeling the lost it entails.

When my husband and I first joined Warcraft, we were welcomed into the top guild on our server, thanks to a real life friend. These people took us under our wing, taught us more about the game than we would have learned on our own and trusted us enough to make us regular raiders (apparently we learned enough from them to not suck). Unfortunately when the first expansion was looming the guild fell apart.

Both my husband and I felt such a huge loss as people were splintering off to different guilds. They were all our friends, who should we try and go with? The guild that is currently splintering was created by some of those, our old time friends. Again, with the splintering, they are not just going to different guilds, many of them are transferring off the server to start fresh.

Some of these people we met in real life, spending a weekend partying it up with. Meeting them in person felt natural, like old friends seeing each other after years’ absence. The only funny twist being we had to introduce ourselves with our “in-game” name and following it up with our real names.

It’s sad to see this “in-game” family fall apart… yet with it springs new opportunities. We too are starting over, with a guild that exceeds our time on the server, and one filled with people, many of whom have been together for nearly 10 years (since the first EQ). This new guild has “splinters” in different games and has given new meaning to family-style guild.

While sad to see what was now break up, we are looking forward to our future.

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