hey my wife is the guildmaster of almost 600 people on WoW. does this mean we can start running news stories on what they do? Cause they are bigger than The Syndicate, And that's only one game.

 And back in Ultima IV me and a buddy formed a lore guild named "16th street", we never broke the guild up (just him and I) does this mean I can send letters to The Syndicate telling them to no longer claim they are the oldest??

 Jesus, I ONLY hear about The Syndicate from stupid crap like this. I've played since 1997 and NEVER ONCE seen them in ANY game.

 They are the Paris Hilton of MMOs, they claim they are the best at what they do... Yet they have never done anything... Yet they are famous for being famous.

Originally posted by Dionysus187

I don't get why this is news. OMG the syndicate is doing something?! whoopty shit. Same even if its for april fools. Hey you guys my Aunt Cindy got RED car! lol tricked she hates the color red I totally tricked you. That's just as newsworthy.

Every top guild I have seen in MMO's has NOT been the syndicate. I think their famous just for being famous and don't actually do anything people care about.

 

In no way, not from any angle, is this a good news story or april fools joke. It is a total failure in the most literal and complete sense of the term.

This ^^^

Just when you think this site cant lower its "standards" any further......

I'd also like to point something out... they claim they play most mmos years before the release and clear all the content? So this means we can blame them for the fact most MMOs are crap now?

 Nice, way to pitch your guild as "we told them how to make their game, that's why it's not worth playing". Sure, let me run straight out and sign up for that! Destroying MMOs sounds GREAT for the future of MMOs... morons

not only do i question the actual involvement this guild may have had in any game i have to question any developer that would listen to a guild with a huge laundry list of failed games under their belt.

I just went to their website for the first time to watch their ego stroking continue.

 one thing that makes me giggle. They are in the book of world records because for some reason they kept documentation from their founding (who the Hell does that?!). They won for being the worlds oldest running GUILD...

 let me direct you to their front page:

 "the Syndicate isn't a guild"

 so by their own words they do not deserve the title.

 either way, the only thing that actually upsets me is if they really are alpha testing games. They don't stick around in a game long enough to understand them. Yet they are a driving force behind the MMOs coming out? How the HELL can they be happy that they are killing the gaming experience for all of us? Really? They want to stoke their own ego over giving players a solid game? So in a sense they are the MMO terrorists, yay for sure a "guild" worth covering on MMORPG... Sorry, I'd rather have a guild who knows what they are doing over them anyday for testing.

I just wanted to add to the general, "who cares" comments.

Stop reporting news on non-newsworthy subjects. It makes the site look bad.

Originally posted by Deriums

hey my wife is the guildmaster of almost 600 people on WoW. does this mean we can start running news stories on what they do?

Why not? Sounds like a massive community. It's entirely possible that somewhere in that 600 people over the past couple of years some of them did something pretty darn amazing. Why not submit that as news?

Personally, I'd really be interested in her approach to managing a guild that size. What's the hierarchy? How is it broken down into manageable groups? What is the retention rate and what are some of the tasks regularly done to manage/increase the guild size? Demographics?

Ask her if she can do an article or blog here on that kind of stuff.

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by Deriums

hey my wife is the guildmaster of almost 600 people on WoW. does this mean we can start running news stories on what they do?

Why not? Sounds like a massive community. It's entirely possible that somewhere in that 600 people over the past couple of years some of them did something pretty darn amazing. Why not submit that as news?

Personally, I'd really be interested in her approach to managing a guild that size. What's the hierarchy? How is it broken down into manageable groups? What is the retention rate and what are some of the tasks regularly done to manage/increase the guild size? Demographics?

 

Ask her if she can do an article or blog here on that kind of stuff.

 i always kid around with her about how it's her second job. the guild has two main raid teams she oversees, not a day goes by where she isn't on vent sorting out some sort of problem or drama.  She loves it though. they are not quite the number one on their server or anything, but they have hit the guild exp cap every single day :)

Deriums: That is definetly interesting, and something I can relate too. My girlfriend also runs our WoW section of our multi-game organization. She goes through the same stuff, always dealing and stressing about drama but she loves it.

Enough about The Syndicate already MMORPG. Please, run some articles on other guilds, there are many more out there.

11 pages while no one is interesdted in it... i think the pages prove wrong for mmorpg :p

I've contacted MMORPG.com asking them to allow other guilds a chance to share their opinions. Fair enough, I could skip any The Syndicate® articles, but that's not the point. The point is, another guild could take this article, I'd love that.

Originally posted by tachgb

I've contacted MMORPG.com asking them to allow other guilds a chance to share their opinions. Fair enough, I could skip any The Syndicate® articles, but that's not the point. The point is, another guild could take this article, I'd love that.

MMORPG.com never blocked or prevented other guilds from submitting MMO news or info.

Originally posted by Leucrotta

11 pages while no one is interesdted in it... i think the pages prove wrong for mmorpg :p

11 pages of, "FFS, another news article about these guys" and "who are they?" doesn't really count.

If that's the case, then why so many articles on The Syndicate? Surely they're not the only guild submitting their stuff?

Originally posted by tachgb

If that's the case, then why so many articles on The Syndicate? Surely they're not the only guild submitting their stuff?

In most cases, the poor guild leaders don't know anything about touting or messaging their guild and the good guild leaders are already using every bit of their spare time doing administrative and management tasks.

I'm hoping to hear from people like the two people mentioned a few posts back, but from the posts in this thread I get the feeling the only articles that will get any type of decent reception are ones about server firsts and leaderboard winners.

Originally posted by Loktofeit

In most cases, the poor guild leaders don't know anything about touting or messaging their guild and the good guild leaders are already using every bit of their spare time doing administrative and management tasks.

I'm hoping to hear from people like the two people mentioned a few posts back, but from the posts in this thread I get the feeling the only articles that will get any type of decent reception are ones about server firsts and leaderboard winners.

Just flicking through some of the "Syndicate" guys threads, and you're in quite a few of them defending the Syndicate.

Why is this?

Originally posted by ArEf

Originally posted by Loktofeit

In most cases, the poor guild leaders don't know anything about touting or messaging their guild and the good guild leaders are already using every bit of their spare time doing administrative and management tasks.

I'm hoping to hear from people like the two people mentioned a few posts back, but from the posts in this thread I get the feeling the only articles that will get any type of decent reception are ones about server firsts and leaderboard winners.

Just flicking through some of the "Syndicate" guys threads, and you're in quite a few of them defending the Syndicate.

Why is this?

Actually, you'll probably find me in a lot of threads where I feel people are blindly or hypocritcally burning something at the stake when they could have used it as a learning tool or stepping stone. That's a whole other discussion and I'd be more than glad to continue that in PMs rather than derail this thread.

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by ArEf

Originally posted by Loktofeit

In most cases, the poor guild leaders don't know anything about touting or messaging their guild and the good guild leaders are already using every bit of their spare time doing administrative and management tasks.

I'm hoping to hear from people like the two people mentioned a few posts back, but from the posts in this thread I get the feeling the only articles that will get any type of decent reception are ones about server firsts and leaderboard winners.

Just flicking through some of the "Syndicate" guys threads, and you're in quite a few of them defending the Syndicate.

Why is this?

Actually, you'll probably find me in a lot of threads where I feel people are blindly or hypocritcally burning something at the stake when they could have used it as a learning tool or stepping stone. That's a whole other discussion and I'd be more than glad to continue that in PMs rather than derail this thread.

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People have many reasons to dislike this sort of coverage, as stated many times above, self-proclaiming rubbish isn't a good way to be seen as a good guild.

There's nothing to learn from these articles and thats why ppl are up in arms about it, and rest assure they are using it as a stepping stone alright, not to go forward though.

Taken from their own website :

The Syndicate is a guild composed of the best players in the online gaming world. Many apply, few are accepted. Although we have strict membership requirements, we also have extremely low turnover thus the guild has grown to be very large.

The Syndicate is a dictatorship style guild with Dragons as the overall decision maker.

We dont brag about content completed. We dont race other guilds to be the first to overcome a collection of pixels at the expense of our members. We maintain our believe in team first.. members first.. friends first.. while still advancing through end game content and having alot of fun while doing so.

How many contradications can you get in a few sentences....? All I see here is a bunch of obnoxious nerds that decided they were above all and made themselves dictators of a guild, spammed every media in search of attention whilst not achieving anything special at all, having a large amount of members is not an achievement, and they are trying to cover their asses by stating they are not after racing to be firsts, yet they are supposed to be the best players in the world.., in fact they are just a bunch of skilless individuals that zerg everything and pat themselves on the back for being so awsome.

Originally posted by Loktofeit Actually, you'll probably find me in a lot of threads where I feel people are blindly or hypocritcally burning something at the stake

What you mean is, if they have a different view to you?