I know I’m a little late in responding but I just wanted to say I totally understand where you’re coming from, having been part of the leadership of a similarly styled casual guild. The stress, the decisions, and the administrative tasks and yadda yadda and all that. BUT I strongly disagree with your ending! That ‘you are not something special’ and you’ve ruined people’s lives as guild leader. Don’t think that, because eventually they will get over their harsh feelings and realize it is a game and that you did what was right in the end. Towards the end of my sentence… err term as officer, I was told that I had become bull-headed and no longer fun to play with. That really hurt me for a while, and I had quite a similar thought process. Who am I? I’m not qualified to decide where we all go.. Maybe I’ve been making the wrong decision this whole time- and they were for everyone! How pretentious! I was shortly after forced into a hiatus by my busy schedule, but I went back recently with my 7 day free trial and that same person was so excited to see me and took me on several runs. So I guess I wasn’t such a horrible person after all. People say things in the heat of the moment, or even during long drawn out periods of tensions, they don’t always mean. So even if they say you’re a horrible person for declining their application, they may not think quite so lowly of you.

You are awesome! And I love your blog. And not just because I’m also a big bear butt tank. =D

You said “I think there is no finer guild than the Sidhe Devils, anywhere. And that’s the truth.” So why would you think that as guild leaders, you have failed? Sounds to me like you have been doing a damn fine job. Being GL IS a full time job. In addition to your real-life full time jobs. In addition to family obligations. In addition to just playing WoW for fun. Eventually anyone is going to get burned out.

I remember in my former guild all the things our guild leaders would have to deal with and thought “who would want that job”? There’s the major blow-ups and drama, but there’s also the little things like doing BRD runs at 1am because it’s the last night of Brewfest and a guildie HAS to have some drop. You know you have work at 8am tomorrow, but you are GM and you don’t want to let a guildie down….it all adds up.

You are definitely doing the right thing.

You basically just gave yourselves ‘an expansion’ of fun – before Blizz released the expac! nicely done and ‘gratz on a fabulous tour of duty in the lead seats and even more gratz on the comfy seats!!

all the best, iron
.-= Iron´s last blog ..Looks like Blizzard is bringing back some significant challenges to raiding! =-.

And unless you guys are switching servers, it’s not like all ties to Sidhe Devils are gone forever. I mean, the new GM isn’t exactly going to put up on guild info ‘These guys are the asshats who abandoned us and are now official enemies of the guild’, or anything. You’ll still more than likely be considered a good friend of the guild.
.-= Kaitus´s last blog ..Happy Halloween! =-.

Sláinte!

Del

I too was once a guild leader of a small guild and it was fun. When we wanted to start raiding I agreed to merge with another guild. Some people were upset and quit and moved on to a better raiding guild, some people followed me. But how nice it was to not have to deal with the issues. The game became fun again and not just a job. I wish you and Cassie well and hope that the fun returns very soon.

Cheers

Alt

You have done your bit for King and Country, Big Bear. Take some decompression time and enjoy yourself.

/salute
.-= Calardren, the Very Old´s last blog ..The End of an Era =-.