[Aredhel]

The whole time I had my magic pencil out, I wanted to my own thoughts.

This article is quite dead on, imho! When they had that huge get together a few years ago of Blizzard, SoE, umm...a couple others...where they were talking about the direction MMO's would be taking in the upcoming years, my heart sank! I could see the writing on the wall, and it's indelible black ink now.

Except for one bright, shining star that we are hanging on to now, VSoH!

I have also been a GL of a couple of guilds over the years, only we weren't raid guilds. It's SO hard to keep a casual guild casual when a game company starts changing the rules on ya and you HAVE to grow to succeed in any possible way. That's when you lose players and friends and the drama increases to magnanomous porportions. So sad...so terribly sad. Our guild in EQ is flat. As I told one friend who had returned, we can't even field a raid on D'Vinn now. In EQ2, everyone is going every which way trying to see everything and many of our guildies are left in a field somewhere looking for a group. That's NOT why you join a guild, and in EQ2, the guilds started off with a "do or die" attitude, so it may be the same ppl, but surely not the same mentality!

umm...ok...I'm writing my own article now. But you get my drift.