Mid tier guilds do spend thousands of dollars on this game. Several of my guild mates and I have each spent well over $1000 on this game. I was in a 90 million GP guild, And we were completely unable to recruit and were unable to progress at all in the game because of that heroic Sith raid. Nobody wants to join a guild that is doing tier 5. Even people with half a million GP think they’re ready for the heroic tier. This made recruiting impossible. In my frustration I left a guild that had become my home. I couldn’t take the overwhelming feeling of stagnation. It was a fantastic guild but there was nothing that we could do to progress. Even spending thousands of dollars made no difference. The heroic Sith raid Is the death of the mid guild. If the rewards for the lower tiers were better than say… Challenge gear, then maybe recruiting would go better.
