My guild of World of Warcraft has been around for 5 months with some success i must say. But still we have lots of unsolved issues and had survived all the classic guild problems along the way, like lacking progress, leaving members, not having enough people to raid, etc etc.


Despite all the long and hard path we had, we are now a stable core of 13-14 players who are good and well geared up for the current content on the game. But we are casual. Being casual for us means that people may go missing for entire months and when they get back they may raid with the guild. How do you accomplish this with success? How can u take a spot out of a member which is allways there, so a long forgotten uber-casual guy steps in even without knowing recent tactics and strategies for the current guild encounters. The purpose is to have everyone happy and having fun within their own casualness (omg love words with 'casual' on them). But that is not easy! Some guys are there for every raid, some are playing for 2 weeks then are 2 weeks offline. Some are 1 month offline then come back for 2 months; some just come to 2 of our 3 weekly raids. So how do u manage to keep progress going and, at the same time, keep everyone happy? Answers to come on next post.

The fact is: running a hardcore guild is easier