What scares you away from a FC/Guild?

[Dravus]

I think most people are pretty understanding about stuff like that. Real life does, after all, take priority over anything related to an online game. Time-zones are pretty problematic as well - and often made extra annoying by the inability to add people to one's friends list unless they're online at the same time that you are. 

 

I usually just try to keep people as informed as I can though. I don't think an apology is explicitly necessary for such a scenario but it can help to let people know if only to spare them the feeling that they've done something wrong/aren't interesting enough/are being blown off.

 

Ideally people will just assume that real life did get in the way, mind you, but they can get the wrong idea if they don't get contacted by someone who offered them role-play and then they see that same person replying to other threads/interacting with other individuals.

 

It is a two-way street though. Sometimes it's their responsibility to show the initiative to see if the situation can be salvaged or whether it's best to go separate ways.

[Kalooeh]

Biggest issues I think I have so far is just members being rather... unhelpful.

Like say the only or majority of the time people in the fc will help others is for maybe end game content/duty runs or if it's someone like the guild leader asking for help with something.

Otherwise help requests tend to be largely ignored, even by people complaining about how bored they are with nothing to do.

It's understandable if someone is really busy, but a lot of the time I see people asking for help with something just so they can continue on with story quest or need help with the last bit of getting to a certain level and most the people are just sitting around doing next to nothing or doing things that could easily enough be picked back up after helping someone quick and doesn't require them to wait for a long period of time to be able to continue what they're doing.

Like someone leveling a character and they're stuck because of a duty they need to finish or they're too low a level to continue and leveling options are slower than a quick duty so they ask for a party so they don't have to sit in DF for half hour or more while trying to grind their way to the next level. Small handful of people response with busy or just general silence. A minute later the leader or an officer (or in general someone that is popular in the fc) asks if people want to do one of those heroic duties or ex or whatever the things are marked as, or just want help with runs to get a certain gear piece they want and suddenly people are tripping over themselves to join in.

 

Usually one of the major reasons I end up leaving an fc. I find it seriously frustrating when people may join an fc for community and/or help with the game and then are largely ignored unless they ended up popular or it's end game and people would rather sit and be bored than help someone else with something that needs to be done, or answer a question someone may have about the game they're not sure of because of being new or anything. Not even a "Sorry I don't know" kind of answer. Just nothing.

 

Probably something that doesn't seem like a big deal to most but really one of the biggest reasons for me to leave. I try to help people as much as I can even if I just reply to let them know I saw them but am unable to help, because that shit is still better than being ignored, but if I feel like people in the FC really don't give much of a shit about others unless they're level 50 and directly benefiting them, or in some kind of position of power like an officer, then I'd rather just go find an FC with a better community and ooc support.