I don’t want to use the terms guild war because I don’t want people to misunderstand that this article is about Guild War, a great game from NCSoft.  I am talking about guild vs guild.  Some games called this guild with another terms, name it: faction, circle, order, etc.  But still, usually the have a feature to have a war between guild. 

Btw, this article is inspired by Hyuk’s article. 

So if you want to have a guild vs guild, here’s the best reason to do it in my opinion:

7. Game event

GMs announcing that a special event is being held and it’s a contest between guilds.  Or maybe the game is implementing this routine event, guild vs guild.  You have an active guild, so it’s no harm to participate in it, right?  It’s a very logic reason to have a guild war.  No further explanation needed, I think.

6. To show who’s better, who’s the best, who’s the strongest

Why would you form a strong guild if you never show it to other?  Show them who’s the biggest, who’s the strongest, who’s the best, just like what Muhammad Ali did.  It’s a good reas

Last April 2008, Pangya has closed their services in my country.  It was a popular casual online game.  But due to many factors, it has to be the new inhabitants in the online game graveyard.  There are several popular online games that loosing their players and finally ended their services or has a state of “brain dead” in my country.  Nexia, Tantra, RYL, were some of examples where popular games finally ended or loosing players.  We don’t have to cover about unpopular ones like TS Online, Laghaim, Stargate Online, Deco Online, and so on, because it will eventually be dead.  So a once popular online games, doesn’t mean a long lasting popularity.

In Memorial Of:

However, when it comes to game mods, we have different cases.  Some popular mods are even still played until now!  I barely find players that still playing Tantra in the internet café of my country nowadays, but I still find some players training their team in Counter Strike.  I have friends to play many online game together as a guild, but our guilds has been inactive for quite some times in some online games.  But we still routinely play

I haven’t had a chance to read blogs in MMOSite lately.  So, during past few days, I spent some times to read them.  I have to say you guys really done great jobs writing articles.  I really enjoyed them.  I also discovered some articles regarding cyber love (and an article with that exact title from cesarsuki).

It will be really sweet to found your soulmate during your gameplay.  The one who understand your other life, your cyberlife.  It is a life that not all of your relatives and your closest ones would understand.  So if your spouse can be found in an online game, I have to admit IT IS very very ideal.  You can spend your time together, knowing that she or he will understand your passion in that “other” world, eliminating the boring grinding because you found an excitement slaying monster together, and still many more things to do together.

HOWEVER, all things in this world usually come in the form of 2 side of balance.  Dark and Light, Yin and Yang, Good and Bad, The Forces and Dark Forces, and so on.  That’s why, I also understand that game (online or not) will bring 2 effects too, good and bad.  I

I have this funny conversation during one of my gameplay, while L is me, and A is a player in that game:

A: (shouting) GM, where can I find NPC Z???

L: (whisper to A) You can find NPC X by reading the website guide for NPC.

A: (whisper to me) Which part of the website?

L: (whisper to A, after take a look at the website) Just go to coordinate x, y, u will find NPC Z.

A: (whisper to me) R u a GM?

L: (whisper to A) No I am not.

A: (shouting) GM, where can I find NPC Z???

L: … SWT!!!

I thought to myself: OMG, just because I am not a GM and you don’t believe my information?  And it is only some click away for you to find it by yourself at the website, but you need GM just to find an NPC???  So, I try to “enlighten” him about the usual GM function.  I never become a GM in an online game, but I am sure that one of their job is not to help a newbie to find an NPC.

L: Have u tried the coordinate?  It’s there, u don’t need a GM to find it.  Contact GM if you find bug.

A: R u a GM?

L: I told you before, I am not, just try to help u find the NPC.  Besides GM will only respond to you for bug or special report like when you try to repo