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State Of The Guild - 5/16/08
Posted Friday May 16 2008 - 10:52AM
I originally was not going to post anything about this, but then I read something this morning. One of WoW's most prominent and well known guilds, Death & Taxes has disbanded. While we were never as well known, as progressed or even as skilled as they were, the reasons for their disbanding struck a chord with me. Many of the problems they ran into are the same problems that put is in the situation we are in now. Many of their problems were the very same we ran into.
Effective immediately, all 25 man raids are suspended until the expansion. There will still be 5 and 10 man runs, and most of us will still be around. However, any and all major raiding has come to a stop. Many of you have seen this coming, so I'm sure this comes as no surprise. It was time though, to make it official. This is something I have long avoided and something I really did not want to face. You may be asking why and what happened? Well, let me tell you...
For years I have taken responsibility for this guild, it's actions and the blame when anything has gone wrong. Today, I take a stand and I deter from that normal route. This guild was made up of more than just me. It was once made up of a strong, dedicated group of people who had pride in the guild and who had a desire to work towards being something bigger and better. We once had a strong, skilled, and dedicated raid team that had a desire to progress, a desire to meet new challenges, and a desire to excel. A group of people who would not turn tail and run at the first sign of adversity. A group of people who did not turn at facing insurmountable odds, but relished in meeting an exciting and impossible challenge head on.
The only thing I ever asked of people was that you show up, and you give your best effort. That you understand and realize, that we as a guild, are a team. We share in the victories and the defeats, as a team. We weather the tough times, together, as a team, and we bask in whatever glory we achieve, as a team. Somewhere along the line, people lost sight of all of this. People stopped seeing that we were a team, working together, to achieve something greater. Instead, people started thinking about themselves, and no one else. Somewhere along the line, many people just stopped caring.
People started to became frustrated with the fact we were not progressing fast enough. They believed our efforts were simply not good enough. They started to think we should be beating new encounters the first time, and were unwilling to put forth the work and effort to learn things over time. Eventually, people just stopped showing up, with no word. Instead of taking the high road and having the decency to tell us they could no longer raid, they kept us waiting. They made hollow promises, and lead us to believe we could depend on them, and I like a fool, believed people and had faith in them. I believed that these people were genuinely loyal to the guild, and shared my vision of where we could take this guild. As DnT put it, these people did not even have the common decency to quit. They promised, time after time, that they would be here and then never showed. You want to know why we are where we are folks? Take a good look in the mirror.
Fast forward to today. We have fallen far from where we once were. We once had pride in our guild and we once stood upon a pillar, at the top. Now, we stand in ruins.
I want to thank the Officers who shared my views and my vision of making this guild great. I want to thank the few (very few players), who's unwavering loyalty and dedication served as the chief reasons for the progress we were able to achieve. Many of you know if you were guilty of what I've spoke of here. We had a strong potential as a guild to be great...and many of you took this for granted and dismissed it.
Great guilds are not born, they are made, through hard work, and through unwavering dedication. It takes people of great skill, and great character to achieve great things. We had those people long ago, but they have since moved on. Too many good, decent, and skilled players got replaced...with people who simply could not make it. Over time the temporary fillers became the vast majority, and the skilled, and dedicated players that had carried us to success had become the minority.
Times changed, and all things must end. This guild was first formed in 1999, back in AC1. We have survived almost 10 years, through multiple games, and we will continue to do so, wherever we wind up. That much is certain and that much is true. This is merely the end of one chapter, and the beginning of the next in the long history of Hell Inc.
We will be laying low, and maintaining our presence in WoW throughout the year and until the expansion comes out. We will see what happens then. We will also be starting up a branch in AoC (Age of Conan), on the Derketo server.
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Comments: 1
Registered: Oct 13 : 09:07AM
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./tear... The first thing that came to mind reading this was the night we one-shotted the AQ40 Twin Emps for the first time, if memory serves it was 3rd or 4th time we got them down...
Of course that is just one example of many glory moments in the WoW chapter of HI, many of which sadly were before my time and even more to my regret some after my time. If there was one thing I could wish for in gaming more then being back in the day again it would be to have been with HI even sooner, I had been occationally chating with HH for months before I actully started raiding with Hell Inc and really wish I could have been there for the first Ony kill, or the first BWL full clear, etc.
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Registered: Jun 07 : 04:46PM
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As great a leader as you have been, Hellhawk, you cannot make people care. You have done extraordinarily well in spite of this and I, among many, thank you for the time I have spent with the guild. I admit that there were times that I didn't care about what we were doing, disagreed with the direction the guild went but for 99% of the time I was there and I loved it. No time in any game has given me more to look forward to, more to remember, or more people (who I have never met) to care about.
I apologize for my recent latent activity but real life has caught up with me. I would love to be able to raid (or even play, now) and keep up with school, work, and a girlfriend...but alas, all good things come to an end. My days of gaming are pretty much gone.
Thanks for my first (and the guild's 2nd) Onyxia kill, the first pull of Molten Core, the 8 weeks of Razorgore attempts, Nefarian's first fall, Ahn Quiraj, and the little piece of Naxx we did. It was all worth it.
Caligula
P.S.-I'll see everybody when the expansion hits. If there is more to AoC than PvP I might step in. Who knows? I'm not dead, just in a lull.
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Registered: Jul 14 : 01:34AM
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I actually watched my old Hell Inc. The Movie I made back before the expansion came out. Even caught the end of our first Emps kill on it too. Still brings back some memories there I must say. Sorry to hear about all the guild problems as of late but I'm sure you'll all pull through like always.  I can always reupload the movie of us rocking AQ40 if anybody cares but I doubt that at this point. Anyway, I saw the website in my bookmarks and thought I should come and check out all the end game stuff ya'll were stomping only to find things in bad shape. Again, sorry to hear guys but keep your chin up and come Horde side with me and join the guild I'm in! ~_^ Just kidding. Take care ya'll.
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