Category: Gaming Community

5 Reasons Why WordPress Shouldn’t Host Your Guild Website

We’ve talked a little bit in previous posts about how much you can benefit from having a guild, clan, or game community website. We even went over what kinds of things you should look for when you start searching for a guild hosting platform.

Game community websites help bring players together. They’re a place to communicate with each other, organize events, and recruit new people to play with. But some of you are probably wondering why you have to use a guild hosting platform to do all those things. Can’t you use a regular web platform like WordPress instead?

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Guild Guide: Taking feedback and managing discontent in a group

The last time I talked about feedback, it was all about giving feedback that’s worth getting. The problem is that the best feedback in the world won’t do anything when you’re dealing with officers who don’t actually care about what you have to say. You can outline all of a guild’s problems with aplomb and wit, provide a flawless plan to fix them, and even add in a quick five-minute guide to losing weight and making money while eating cake – if the officers don’t read and internalize it, all of that feedback is immediately worthless.

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Seven Shooters Your Clan Needs To Be Playing

We’ve already talked about what MMOs and MOBAs offer the best experience for a guild. But some of you prefer rifles to roleplay, and that’s okay. Shooter clans need love, too. (And Gamer Launch has lots to give.)

There are a lot of obvious choices that we could have put on this list: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty, and Battlefield to name a few. Everyone knows that these big-hitters have huge communities, so it seems a little redundant to include them. And we’re betting that some of you are getting kind of tired of them, anyway. So we’ve hand-picked a few games that aren’t quite as AAA, but still offer a fantastic multiplayer experience for clans.

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Guild Guide: Giving better guild feedback

At the time of this writing, I’m not far from having left a longtime guild in one of my regular games. It’s something I had been thinking of doing for a long while, but a bit of discussion internally about issues within the guild were enough to convince me that yeah, it was time to go. It all had a lot to do with how the feedback was handled in general, but that’s getting into a whole pile of useless hearsay.

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Building a Guild Website: 8 Things You Should Look For

We’ve already talked about why you need a guild website. A well-made site on the right guild hosting platform will help your group maintain communication, stay organized, and network more effectively. But that’s all big picture stuff. You’re probably asking the more immediate question: how do I do all that?

A good guild website seeks to enhance the group play experience for guild members, so most guild hosting platforms offer a ton of features that do just that. From communication and recruitment tools to customization and game integration, there are a lot of options available to you. So which ones are essential to making a great site?

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Guild Guide: Learning to love guild drama

Remember when I wrote ages ago that no one likes guild drama? I stand by that, because no one does like guild drama. But there’s a difference between not liking something and pretending that it shouldn’t exist, and running a guild as a “drama-free zone” is a bit like trying to run your local business as an oxygen-free zone. Whatever good reasons you might have for doing it, you’re going to wind up with everyone promptly leaving so they can breathe.

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Guild Guide: The currency of trust

Every guild is built on a foundation of trust. That doesn’t mean that all of the guilds in all of the games deserve that foundation; there are several wherein that trust begins shaky and never really solidifies. Those don’t last long. But trust is what enables guilds to start and keep working, and the destruction of trust is always what ultimately leads to the dissolving of guilds and the scattering of members.

Trust in what, though? Everything.

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Guild Guide: How to recruit smarter, not harder

Every guild has a certain number of members, and almost every guild would like that number to be bigger. New people, new friends, new options, new opinions. It’s all good! Until you’re looking at the group a few months down the road and realize that the guild has gone from being a small group of people you did want around to a huge collection of people you barely know and definitely don’t want around.

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Guild Guide: Nailing down what you need for guild officers

If there is one thing I want to accomplish with these columns, if nothing else, it’s taking apart the idea that officers are the power core of any player grouping. Because having a group full of leaders with no one who’s willing to follow is a very real and very damaging possibility. Guilds should not be running on the same basic principle as medieval feudal kingdoms, and officers should not be appointed based on who’s been around the longest and who you like the most.

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Guild Guide: How to handle resource distribution better

One of the biggest assets that guilds have is that they allow players to pool their resources so that everyone can benefit. This is also one of the biggest drawbacks because it raises a whole mess of additional issues.

Pooling resources is, let’s be honest, a good thing.  It means that players who are unlucky with random rewards can catch up, players who have more than they need can share with others, and everyone in the guild feels as if they’re more or less on a level playing field. At the same time, it also means that you have to tacitly acknowledge at first that the players are not starting on a level playing field, and by pooling resources at times you can wind up with less of a leveling effect and more of a selfish roommate situation.

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