Illegal Opinion

Kirahunter wrote:As a Guild Master I am fully against this idea. I will absolutely refuse to cooperate with any guild closings or membership incentives. While I'm aware that Fairy Tail at present would be one of the small guilds benefiting from larger guilds closing I still do not like it.

People are to join the guild that represents values and ideas that most resonate with their character. I don't want someone in Fairy Tail who would have been better off in Sabertooth even if it means having more active members.

Besides closings are unfair to members deciding the fate of new members just because of their join date. If I came here wanting to join Sabertooth, but found it was closed and I had to go somewhere else. Well I'd be up in arms.

So guild closings rub me wrong. But what I hate more would be guild joining incentives.

I refuse to bribe members with jewels or items to get them to join. I want and only want members who would join Fairy Tail of their own free will! This policy might dwindle my member count, but it will generate more permanent members.

Members who are bought or forced will not be as loyal, dedicated or active. They cannot be expected to stay in the guild for the long haul.

=-= if small guilds want members, earn them dangit.

Lumina Rubyscale wrote:Lol guys i hate to break it to you but BR is not as large as you think, we have been losing members to ST almost weekly.

Kirahunter wrote:As a Guild Master I am fully against this idea. I will absolutely refuse to cooperate with any guild closings or membership incentives. While I'm aware that Fairy Tail at present would be one of the small guilds benefiting from larger guilds closing I still do not like it.

People are to join the guild that represents values and ideas that most resonate with their character. I don't want someone in Fairy Tail who would have been better off in Sabertooth even if it means having more active members.

Besides closings are unfair to members deciding the fate of new members just because of their join date. If I came here wanting to join Sabertooth, but found it was closed and I had to go somewhere else. Well I'd be up in arms.

So guild closings rub me wrong. But what I hate more would be guild joining incentives.

I refuse to bribe members with jewels or items to get them to join. I want and only want members who would join Fairy Tail of their own free will! This policy might dwindle my member count, but it will generate more permanent members.

Members who are bought or forced will not be as loyal, dedicated or active. They cannot be expected to stay in the guild for the long haul.

=-= if small guilds want members, earn them dangit.

Lumina Rubyscale wrote:Lol guys i hate to break it to you but BR is not as large as you think, we have been losing members to ST almost weekly.

King Zenshin wrote:Seconded. I had to do it with ST when it had like, 3 members so why can't the other guilds do it now? It's about putting yourself out there to the newbs

Vexel wrote:

Lumina Rubyscale wrote:Lol guys i hate to break it to you but BR is not as large as you think, we have been losing members to ST almost weekly.

The reason no one stays in Black rose is because you lack the moral to keep the guild going. I’ve seen it myself, and others tell me it’s still going on. Not to mention you had to bribe most of your members so you’d win the scoreboard.  Proof of this claim I’m going to be polite with this. Unless you have something that is relevant to this topic, keep out of it. K? K. Thanks.

FeitanKazeshini wrote:I've made cases on this before as Ryo, and Zhu. The point is however that certain large guilds need to close their doors.  Also the whole Guildless system needs to be done away with as well. There is truly no point in magi being without guilds. The guild I run is neutral and we don't restrict what our guild members do. We barely require them to tolerate each other. The point is that there is a lot to be done. Also how does one recommend that the guilds who are small get recognition? the majority of the fan base only will acknowledge the guilds they've seen or read about.

The neutral guilds, and some of the legal guilds are not popular, and thus they will never be wanted by the public. Also smaller guilds won't be popular simply because they are small. You see this in MMOs all the time. Smaller guilds never have a chance because the public at large wants to be around a lot of people, and also look to steal the benefits that come with larger guilds and groups. Thus it is very unlikely that the smaller guilds will ever be able to really grow in numbers.

Also with certain things going on with the site it seems to me that there have been a large number of people "jumping ship" as it were. How are we supposed to compete with not only that, but also the unpopularity that comes with the public not knowing us, and us being small.

None of what I am saying is new information, and I've spoken out on it before. Still there is nothing wrong with incentive for active players, and there is nothing wrong with incentive to join smaller guilds. The guilds themselves can be in charge of that kind of thing, also it's what every business, game, and group has always done in order to keep members, customers, players, whatever. So the argument that they won't stay is an absurd one. True you can never trust the loyalty of those who are bought, but that's not what we want. We just want activity. If they go inactive then what the hell does it matter if we bribed them.

I guess this is my life now: