Hijacked Guild

#1 - Jan. 15, 2014, 11:03 a.m.

We had a very large guild. At the 500 member cap, with hundreds of active players. Over the last few days a player had been messaging all of our officers saying he was an officer and that he demoted himself by accident. When he finally found an officer that bought his story , and was promoted to officer, he booted every officer from the guild including me (The founder), and changed the permissions so nobody can invite . I guess a lot of it is my fault, I assumed that the founder of the guild couldn’t be kicked. I’m still waiting on a response from Anet, I’m really hoping for the best, it took half a year to get our guild fully upgraded.

Huge loss for so many people on our server.

Gaile Gray

#7 - Jan. 15, 2014, 4:14 p.m.

Sola.7250:
Wow, never heard of anything like that.

Your right, the founder, the original person who spent money to create the Guild should not be allowed to be kicked out!!! Some one needs to have ownership of a Guild and that shouldn’t change unless the owner transfers the ownership of the guild to some one else!

Anet should have procedures in place for that, otherwise the whole Guild creation/ownership is just broken.

Not necessarily, Sola. Consider someone who creates a guild and then decides that he no longer can manage the guild, so asks one or more of his officers to serve as guild leader. Say that person leaves Guild Wars 2 entirely. Should the guild be unable to perform certain functions because, long ago, an person who is no longer around created the guild?

There are no guild “owners.” There are guild leaders, and they should be chosen with care. There are rights ascribed to each rank, and those, too, should be chosen with care.

Too, very, very few guilds are “paid for” by a single individual; rather, they receive their upgrades through the concerted effort of the entire guild membership.

We’re always very sorry to hear about situations where someone abuses the trust that others place in him and does mischief to a guild. But this is preventable with the carefully monitored use of the guild rank and rights/privileges already built into the guild system.