Hi! My 5 copper. I have been in the guild for some time and I have some previous experience with other games where we were doing some hard-core end-game content so I can give you my view on the situation. I by no means want to offend/upset someone so please forgive me if you feel so.
May be shall I start with why I joined PSDH!? Well, I want to do events and my other little guild is really small nor interested in doing them thus I needed some other guild to join (thank you, Anet, for making this possible with 5 guild choice). I have seen your guild name couple of times. You seemed organized, you had TS, you were open for new players, you were welcoming even "noobs"(I feel myself still learning the game). I did TT with you and I really liked the way it went (not to mention some sexy voices on TS that you have
. Anyway I applied for membership.
1. Guild status and attitude
The first thing that greets you when you open "join us" page is this: "
PSDH is not a traditional guild, we only do World Boss and Living Story events." It's fine with me and I accept it as it is. I guess many people do the same. When you position your guild as "ad-hoc" guild then people will have corresponding attitude to it. I see the guild as "bunch of nice people who plays game shit loads of hours, knows everything and do events that I can join". There is no "if you want to join our guild you must attend the events" connection. And I think it's really great to keep it open so that people don't feel like being part of the guild is a full time job. That's why people don't think/feel that they have obligations to participate. Guild size is really big (comparing to other games) so I, as a member, thinking that there are "300 other people" to join the events.
Another aspect in this is membership in the guild. I really like the guild and I want be a part of it. But you keep everyone as "temporary" members. More than that - you regular purge the guild making guild numbers even lower. I was not playing GW2 for a year and then I came back. It was really cool to find myself still being part of my old guild so I could re-unite with them and continue playing. I feel myself being part of the guild. With PSDH I don't feel like "me and my guild". It's more "PSDH core + some random temporary folk". Thus I may be(which I'm not!) less care about what is going on and what numbers there are. So far I know that PSDH has a schedule and making the events and when it fits me - I can join. Not the other way around that I have to change my schedule in order to be there for some DKP or other bullshit.
2. Guild events
Someone already mentioned in the thread about the events. Many of them can be done with any PUG. So for some of the events putting so much effort into having full-organized-guild-run may seems like overkill. The only event I really see the need of organization is TT. I really want to try to do a raid but it's not on the menu. Some events requires some special roles but it's not that easy to switch to them (as a Necro I'm pretty sure I will suck as condi wearing berserker gear). I have seen you have lately posted some info about TT and roles but I, to be honest, have no idea what "egg blocker" is for something and if I can be one. Yes, I know, I take this game too casual and I'm a total noob. I don't even know what half of my spells are doing
Some events require some special prerequisites so for new players it might be hard to follow the main group. Also looting phase in DS is a chaos.
3. Guild commanders
Being a commanders is not just having a tag and (sometimes) knowing what to do. My experience varies hugely depending who is commanding the squad. Even more, I found myself many times in situations when I was choosing the squad based only on the squad leader. I don't want to mention any names and I don't want to offend/upset anyone but some commanders are GREAT, some are OK and some really should not command at all (despite all of their knowledge). If I was to join the PSDH and I was playing with a different commander that day - I'm not sure if I would be interested in joining. I think it's both character, attitude, manners and English skills.
4. Game changes
HoT expansion is not great. I think many of you might agree. I can see in my other game same flow of events: People are getting bored and move on. Some of them (like me) came back. But it's not certain for how long. So I don't think it's PSDH to blame for low numbers. As someone said on TS (Gem?): "It's Anet's fault!". I totally agree. Farming same 2-10-21-40 fractals every day is not fun. Number of ingredients required for Legendary crafting is not fun. This all make game feel a grind thus being not interesting to play. Not to mention when game keeps crashing all the time. When my game crashes during the boss fight in DS after I've spent 2h there - I really want just to uninstall it. So I think it's natural process that people play this game time-to-time (you don't have to pay 12$ every month, right).
Summary: I love you guys and I feel sad that our numbers are low
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