Were you ever part of a clan? How did it go?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I was a member of three ZDaemon clans (all short-lived) and I used to hang around the edges of a couple of other groups on Counter-Strike 1.6.

I would be lying if I said that I didn't have fun, but damn that having international players made coordination impossible and eventually shut down the experiment time and again. Early aughts internet just didn't have neither the power nor the kind of connectivity required to get players together across time zones effectively enough.

Good times, though.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

I plead the 5th... again

 

[Dyne]

Nope. I was in quite a few guilds though.
Different genre, I suppose.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Not a clan but a Guild way back when Ragnarok OnLine was a thing.
Those were the days when we organize a raid against rival Guilds and looting them.
It was really fun while it lasted for all things must come to an end eventually and that mmorpg craze fade as years goes by.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

I was in a PvE guild in World of Warcraft. Used to do all the high end raids and such. Totally sweaty nerd style like the South Park stereotype. Glad I grew out of that phase, lol.

 

[Questless Knight]

Im still member of Xstream idiots a old COD 4 clan. Been a member for several years.

But other than that nope no part in any clan heck im rarely part of guilds. I prefer to play solo mostly because I can play at my speed and do things how I want.

Hell I rarely like to play co-op games because my friends love to give me shit that makes the game I yet played become a cake walk. Like borderlands 2 my friend decided to give me weapons that made the early game so easy it was not fun.

 

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[Waffles's iconWaffles]

borderlands 2 my friend decided to give me weapons that made the early game so easy it was not fun.

I totally get that.

I remember finding a way of getting the game to recognize my Level 38 character as a new entry and basically massacred anything that stood on my path.

It was fun for a while, but there was no challenge.

 

[rootCompute]

I've been part of a handful over the years, even led some for a time. I remember not having the technical know-how or access to hardware to host my own servers when I was a kid, so any clans I attempted to run were a disorganized ragtag group of players without a place to call home. I remember being a part of a Jedi Academy clan and attempting to secretly recruit players under their nose until one of the admins ran a sting operation on me

Nowadays I host a clan server for Jedi Academy, but the disorganized ragtag atmosphere remains—albeit with more of a "too-busy-for-gaming-working-adult" vibe going on. The dream of being part of a truly competitive group of players with coordinated events, ranks, the whole shebang, lives on.

 

[Eclipse14]

There was this one game that had clans. I was in one that was a group that treated me right, but eventually I came to start my own with their own help. A longtime friend who joined me in starting the game made his own clan, but also made an alt for the connection.

Long story short, with a few specific things I did and some very loud-mouthed users that got in my clan, we ended up becoming the clan others strived for. As the leader, I was effectively one of the very biggest names in the game, right there with my buddy. It was crazy to think about, then.

A few friends from that game later became the first few Subscribers to my channel. We still chat on occasion.

 

[Clippy]

There was a brief time I was in a Wolfenstein Enemy Territory clan. Fun times but it's not like it was going to turn into a serious career or anything so I quit to focus on high school finals.

Maybe it's subjective but somehow I feel that MMO guilds are in a completely different ballpark. I've played a few and been in a guild or two but it never really felt the same as being a part of an FPS clan. High-octane twitch reflex shooting was more stimulating than pressing F1-F2-F3 in a sequence and waiting for cooldowns to wear off. I'm not going to pretend that it doesn't require any skill or knowledge of a given game but it's pretty boring in comparison.

With all that said, my online gaming days are long behind me and I know I'd get absolutely crushed if I tried getting back into it. It is what it is even if I do miss having a good deathmatch every now and then.

 

[nobitakun]

I was part of a Guild in Ragnarok Online as well, but I didn't participate in any WoE because I was against fighting people one team against the other. As the Guild was just for fun, they allowed members to do whatever they wanted :)

 

[Izzy]

Only clan I was ever in was WAY back in the day when there were chatrooms, I belonged to a group that was called DarkDragon in a chatroom called Moonstone Castle, then I had one of my own called Clan Dragoon. We were a slightly rounded RP group and I later wrote a book based off some of the adventures that my persona was based on. Years later, I was in a Guild on FFXIV and it later disbanded and never thought of writing a story based on the adventures involving that. Perhaps I should.

 

[RageBurner]

I shared guild leadership with a friend in Ragnarok Online at one point.

 

[Rocket2049]

i used to play maplestory a stupid amount, i've been part of huge guilds and it always was drama drama drama and getting kicked for dumb reasons
i played Phantasy star online 2 when it just in japan before, in a big english player guild, it was massive and we CONSTANTLY did 12 player stage runs (you can have 12 people in a party, it's nuts!)
it was so fun farming drops and the lag spikes were hilarious sometimes.
but unfortunately again due to drama they disbanded into like 3-4 other groups and it fell apart
the english version PSO2 is a hollow shell of the original game (like you don't have story missions you just... do things lol, it's stil fun but progression is braindead simple now)

 

[Morgana Veil]

Oh I misread that as cult. Never mind then.

 

[Combofish]

I remember being roughly 14 and thinking I was the coolest guy in the world because the goons I played Star Wars: Republic Commando with started a clan, proceeded to do nothing with it and quit the clan one by one, until I was the clan leader by default. Rode that high for like a week and then realized I was the king of nothing and lost interest.

 

[Varyag]

I'd say the most relevant Clan I've been in, was Clan Sea Fox when I played MechWarrior Living Legends regularly. It's uh lore-accurate to Battletech, and it did get that faction to be my favorite years later when I started playing the tabletop. I don't play that game anymore because of connection issues to the servers, but I still do hang out with my old clan, and one other friendly Clan, the Jade Falcons.

Other than that, I've been in multiple Warframe clans, as that game kinda requires you to be in one for certain kinds of progression. The first one was quite special tho, as they were the ones that lead me from a newbie player into an actual veteran, until everyone stopped playing.