Kotaku: guild

Guild Leaders Game the System

kotaku.com — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:40:00 MST

Wired Magazine has an article about the edge that being a guild leader can give you in real life, including as training for a management position. You'll know you're working for one of them when he tells you that if you catch any more aggro from shipping you're going to lose 50 DKP.

You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!

WoW Guild Admits 'Terrorism' Was a Hoax

lsmith — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:40:51 MST

Just a few hours after we reported on one guild's apparent vicegrip over a server, the thread has been deleted and the guild, Imperial Order, revealed that it was all just a big joke.

However, just because it was in jest, doesn't make it any less worth mentioning. Tony over at Clickable Culture didn't think of it in terms of "terrorism," but rather "opprotunism."

Had Imperial Order been serious and the only guild able to open up new content, Blizzard would've been effectively stepping aside to allow the players of Detheroc (the realm) tell the story of the opening of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. More and more MMOs need to move in this direction. Do I mean promoting terrorism or opprotunism (depending on your view)? No. MMOs need to allow for more player-driven content, there's a couple out there that do it - EVE immediately comes to mind. If Blizzard (and I mention them because of their success they are most likely to be copycatted) finds a way to allow players to drive the storyline of World of Warcraft and allow players to impact the game world, MMOs in the long run will be much better off for it.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

Results are in for the Ransom [WoW Forums]
Terrorist Guild Holds WoW Server Hostage

Terrorist Guild Holds WoW Server Hostage

Brian Crecente — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:32:49 MST

The Imperial Order, a World of Warcraft guild on the Detheroc server, is holding the server hostage. The guild has completed the various quests needed to obtain a septer used to ring a gong. Ringing the gong will open the gates giving everyone on the server access to new content, but the guild refuses to do it. At least, they refuse to do it until someone pays them 5,000 gold.

They say they'd rather be known as the obnoxious guild that held their server hostage than forgotten as the kind guild that opened new content.

Nobody remembers the fair and quietly intelligent people we meet in their daily lives, but everyone remembers those who ruin their day.
We'll have plenty of time to conquer this new content, but for now we see an endless novelty in holding it hostage. And this is what we will continue to do: Hold it hostage.

So About those Gates [WoW Forums]