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Does your guild affect what games you play?
jesad
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How many times has this happened to you?
You decide to pick up an MMO, maybe it's even your first time. You log in, learn how to play, join a guild, and make friends. Then one day you log in and there's no one there! You manage to catch up with one of your fellow guildmates and they tell you that everyone has headed over to game-x (something different) and invites you to come along.
What do you do? What have you done in the past? How much does the guild you are in affect what games you are playing?
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Sometimes, playing a game with friends is always fun. It wont make a bad game good but it makes a good game more fun.
IRL friends or guildfriends doesn't really matters to me. But I have gotten many friends and guildies into new games myself so it works both ways.
I still wouldn't play a game I don't like because my friends or guildies do it though.
There are a few people that I used to play with (when I actually still played MMORPGs) that convinced me to try out other things. It was usually pretty fun to have 3-4 others that were pretty tight knit that would play through the game together as a group. We never really lasted on other games and always returned to WoW..
But it sure made plowing through D3 a lot more enjoyable then it would have been doing it all solo!
No impact. I play games for fun, not for the people.
Heck, i won't even play LoL just because my kids love it. I can always find OTHER things to do with them. So if my kids cannot change my gaming habit, a guild has zero chance.
On a side note, i do like cross game chat like what blizz put in battle.net. While i don't change what i play, i can always talk to my guild, and see if i can change what THEY play.
This has never happened to me, and I've been in the same guild for 8 years. Of course, they all play the same game... so... my answer is "Yes, my guild affects what game I play, but not in the way the OP suggests".
We also have a lengthy recruitment process and well-defined rank structure. I've been everything from a Recruit to a Lieutenant. Now I've settled in as Senior Member (which is just below Council), and it seems to suit me.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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A good game with friends becomes even better.
A bad game with friends is still a bad game to me and I won't play it...