The Whale is Facing Extinction
This game is built on a 3 tier system of whales, dolphins and FTP. It has historically been a balanced ecosystem, where one cannot survive without the other. The whale is becoming an endangered specie...
Forum Discussion
"pac0naut;c-1113614" wrote:
A few things here that have been commented on:
1: Be a hero to another guild? You mean a Merc? Remember how well THAT turned out for players and "guild hopping" and the general perception of those who did it? Besides, when new content comes out, you will probably see more guilds gutted anyways. Also, oh, now there's a cooldown on raid rewards. And before the "you don't need raid rewards" comments come in, just stop it. Think before you type.
I don't think prior posters were talking about being a merc, but about joining a guild that isn't HAAT capable and helping that guild make the transition (and staying with that guild at least long enough for them to be self-sustaining). That being said, it ignores several important aspects of guilds -- the camaraderie of your current guild (I would think that many whales would be socially invested in their guild) and the future content issue. Getting a guild over the HAAT hump is great -- until the next raid comes and the whale goes back to its prior guild in order to clear that massively difficult heroic guild, and the non-whale guild is left in a lurch because its members stopped focusing so hard on raid teams because it was unnecessary.
