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Anyone have good memories of (or still belong to) a gaming clan or guild? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was thinking about this today, pretty unique time way back in my gaming past. Belonged to a clan that would play things like War Rock (old F2P game), Battlefield 2, early CoD games, etc.

It was really the only time I belonged to a gaming clan, and I remember (maybe through the lens of nostalgia?) having a great time with it. Someone was always on voice chat, I think we used TeamSpeak then switched to Vent, then finally Mumble?

I remember it being fairly small group, so everyone knew each other. There was also a really wide range of ages as well, so it was almost more like a strange family than a group of friends.

Just funny to think back, how frequently we all talked to each other, without ever having actually met in-person. Then it just kind of faded away slowly, I couldn't even tell you why / when I stopped.

Anyone else have similar experience / memories? Do you still belong to any gaming clans or guilds today (new or old)?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was a teen I used to run them frequently, tons of great memories. First was in a medium-sized MUD (early purely text-based mmorpgs), playerbase of around 100ish. Had active pvp, which made things harder for the newbies, which kinda capped the server's growth.

Since my teen self named us "Souls of Chivalry" and we had grown into the second strongest guild, we set out to protect the defenseless.

It became common for a chi member to teleport in shortly after a new player joined. Tutorials didn't really exist yet, so we'd answer questions and give them a prepared bag to help them survive the early levels. We'd patrol pvp-heavy areas looking for high level players spawn camping and shit, whereupon we'd kill them and confiscate their stuff. If a player bought land or something and came under attack while they were farming, a single server shout could bring half our guild teleporting in in the next 45 seconds, sometimes to quite the war.

Fun times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's awesome when you can organize an in-game group like that to achieve something you couldn't do alone. Sounds like fun times for sure! :)