What Causes The Drama

Well…as most people who have previous and ongoing connection to The Dambusters Guild will be aware, we suffered a devastating implosion last September where the former raid leaders decided to create a situation where they could drag the entire raiding roster of players out of the guild and form a new raiding guild.  As we suspected at the time, it didn’t last long and as a result the vast majority of the players who left to join the new guild no longer even play the game.

What caused that situation was my determination to push the Dambusters for raiding progress almost at all costs. My fateful decision to allow the former raid leader the leniency to operate his recruitment drive on the back of our solid community platform, and my subsequent relinquishing of player management powers over to him so long as they were ‘his’ raiders were eventually catastrophic.  Over time, he decided he didn’t need me and so whenever raiders came into conflict with the overall guild rules to my dismay, him and his sidekick used those situations to turn people against me and onto his side. Another factor was that he had promised his recruits raiding and that meant that when he decided to leave to form a new raiding guild, they had little option but to follow in order to raid. That needn’t have had to happen.  If he had left on his own without anyone following then we had strong enough leadership to step in and raid lead regardless, but I didn’t see it coming.

I was all too willing to hand over powers to these guys and let them run with it, trusting that they had the guild’s best interests at heart. They clearly had nobody’s interests in mind but their own. I paid heavily for my mistake and so did everyone connected to the guild and after lengthy discussions with a certain few, I decided to un-sub and leave everyone to it, doubting my own ability to lead for the first time. I took a lengthy break and recharged my batteries and now i am ready to restore the Dambusters fully to what we should be; a large community where people actually make friends, join together for content and have similar goals in the game. It’s been a stated mantra of mine for a long time that you play the game for it’s content but you stay in the game for the friendships you make.

Old days of close friends may never be experienced again, times we look back on with happiness, expansions and raid tiers we enjoyed and jokes we had with our team-mates are memories but it’s p to us to get back into it and make new memories with new friends and enjoy the fact that we have a guild who actually cares about it’s people. We may not always make the decisions that please everyone but the direction we take the guild regards future activities will be well thought.  We will raid again and dependent on player skill and leadership from within, we may do pretty well.  What I will not do again is push the issue and allow the guild to fall into the hands of people who have ulterior motives. I am now looking for leaders who will pull guild groups together for 5-man content. Please feel free to ask in guild for more to join.  Just remember that sometimes people don’t spot the chat because they may be AFK or busy with something, be patient but persistent. You will be noticed for trying.

From now on, I will be a very strong but fair leader of the guild. Shethehunter very kindly offered to hand the guild leadership back to me so I will use this opportunity to even further strengthen the guild as we continue to build a solid member-base and move onwards. You can be sure that The Dambusters is in safe hands.  I look forward to planning our next Discord guild meeting in the coming week or so.

/Salute

Bigticket(Roar), Guild Leader