30th November 2009: Strategies for Guild Retention

Windsoar · **Posted:** Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:16 am

Members (and oftentimes guilds) come and go on different servers -- with the increased flexibility of players to move their characters to new locations, what steps should guilds be taking to recruit, train, and retain their members (raid or casual setting as you prefer)?

Ravon1981 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:15 pm

I think the best way of trying to retain people in a guild is make them feel part of the progress of the guild even if they are not a well equipped character. "Throwing a bone" as I lie to call it buy helping people run through content not all that mush above their current item level or through a few easy heroics can be a benefit to that person and the guild if they stay withing the guild and become a valued member of a raid group. This also give you a chance to assess the persons character and play style or lack there of and also their commitment to the guild as a whole.

wow that was a lot of words lol

jaedia · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:22 pm

I keep forgetting to give the shared topics a bash, I actually have a few thoughts on this one. Have seen so many guilds fail, here's my take on the topic:

http://www.lazy-sniper.com/?p=1377

Ophelie · **Posted:** Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:12 pm

That was HARD! By far the most elaborate shared topic I've done yet.

I tried to keep it brief and still ended up with a novel:

http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2009/12 ... trategies/

Windsoar · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:11 am

I just want to say thank you for the great posts! I was a real slacker due to school studies and family celebrations, so I didn't quite get this done as early as I planned. However, technically before the next shared topic starts:

http://jadedalt.wordpress.com/2009/12/0 ... -together/

Snakedriver · **Posted:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:14 pm

I just tackled this one, looking at it through the lense of 3.3 being on everyone's mind and being a big part of the anxiety many folks are having about what to do with themselves guild-wise.

http://www.furlinedteacup.com/bibleofdr ... .html.html

Rilandune · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:29 pm

Just finished and posted this, a look at guild retention from a perspective of "keeping it fun"

Links to all of you included as well as a link to this forum.

http://rilandune.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-azeroth-shared-topic-strategies.html

Cheers!

~Ril

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