HousE ForsakeN (Recruiting!) - Est. 1996 - US Destruction - PvP/PvE

Laminad

Greetings everyone!



Would you like to join a guild that won't die on you (damn vapor guilds!)?  Would you like to join a guild that has a history of great strategy and RPG based gaming?  HF is battle worn and tested.  How about a guild that has a large concentration of 20-40 year olds?  ...Or a guild that plays multiple games at once allowing for a mesh of playing styles?  :P  A place to settle for years to come or a guild where you can feel welcome?  How about a guild that will put the living guild system to test?



House Forsaken started in 1996 and since then has supported 37 game titles in all genres.  Warhammer Online will be our 12th supported MMO.  1996 was the first year of real-time gaming guilds, so our guild has some historical significance in the industry.  It makes us one of the oldest online video game groups in the world.



We have 246 total members (as of this post) throughout our games, but upon the release of Warhammer, we should have a decent roster of 75 WAR dedicated members to start and our overall membership with new game support will be back up over 300.  For Warhammer Online, we have chosen to be destruction.  It was a no-brainer as we have chosen the dark side for every MMO we've played whether it is in faction or in play style.  We have a mix of both PvP and PvE.



House Forsaken is recognized as the oldest Blizzard guild (and out of 100,000 WoW guilds alone, that is pretty unique).  We were on Battle.net first day with Diablo in January of 1997.  When Starcraft was released, we quickly became one of the top clans in the world.  Also that year, we merged with an Everquest guild and since then have always supported MMOs.  Shadowbane and World of Warcraft have been our two biggest hits since EQ, but we played DAoC, SWG, L2, EQ2, and many others.  For many of these games, we have used other names such as our RPish name, Uth Nagor (Forsaken City), but for Warhammer Online it will be House Forsaken.  Upon release of WoW, we were one of the guilds that braved Central server #6, Archimonde.  Some of you might remember the horror that became that server where all the largest and most influential guilds of the MMO world collided.  We are one of a few original Archimonde guilds left.



We own our web server, have a 50-man Ventrilo server set up, and 127 members have XFire to communicate with one another.  Our forums get 100 logins a day and are some of the most active guild forums around for any game.  One month a couple years ago we had 1.1 million page views.  It has been steady recently due to our many Warhammer Online interviews.  For our WAR division, we were one of the first Warhammer Vault guilds of the week.  Recently we were the Warhammer Alliance spotlight.  Also, House Forsaken is "Guild of the Month" for Ten Ton Hammer for March.  WarCry has also posted news about us in the past on their WAR site.  There have been a number of other sites that have featured us int he past.  Hellgate Guru, Stratics, and many others.



Although a larger guild, House Forsaken puts a lot of emphasis on community and social awareness.  Besides the many ways we communicate, members have shown up at guild reunions in New York, Georgia, California, and Texas.  We have also had gatherings in Canada and Germany.  Once you apply, it will be the first thing you witness.  Members are pretty warm to new recruits as we try to assimilate them to our own guild culture.  Member quality is very important to us.  This though is the time to apply.  Once we get closer to release, it will be much harder to become a member of our guild and we will get much more selective.



We are also big on life stages.  HF has members who joined the guild when they were in middle school and are now graduating from college.  We had members who joined in college that are now married with 3-4 kids.  In House Forsaken, these things are important to us as we learn more about one another.  Guild members are individuals with an interest in video games.  Although we have in game goals, our objective is to make sure that individual is satisfied at their choice in guild.



Besides Warhammer Online, our WOW guild will be reinvigorated by the WOTLK expansion and many of our die-hard Starcraft players are patiently waiting for SC2.  Many members also play COD4, so upon the release of WAR, our guild should be doing very well in multiple genres.



If you would like to find out more about House Forsaken or would like to apply to our WAR guild, check out our site and forums.  We are looking forward for your visit!

http://www.houseforsaken.com

 

Laminad

All those looking for a guild:



Tonight (Thursday) at 7pm, log into Warhammer Conflict's flash chat for your chance to shop around. A lot of the top pre-release guilds including HF will be there to answer questions you might have.



How to get in? Well...



1) Visit Warhammer Conflict and register on the forums.



2) After you go to your email and authenticate yourself, go to their flash chat and enter your forum login info.



There will be channels set up for each guild that attends.



NOTE: We just made the decision to close guild recruitment upon release. This is your chance!!!





See you tonight!

Laminad

 

HF Update

House Forsaken is proud to tell the community that it is now over 300 members and recruits strong in multiple games. Forums are now receiving more posts on average a day than it has in two years; between 150 and 215 (the holy crap mark reached yesterday, July 17th).

Warhammer Online:

House Forsaken's beta members are out there playing and making sure non-beta members are jealous enough to punch younger siblings unconcious. The guild now has 67 members and recruits and will continue to grow up through release as other members jump on board and we see more prospects apply to join the guild.

WAR Recruitment information:

Please register on the HF forums and apply if interested in the House Forsaken WAR guild.

Link: http://www.houseforsaken.com/forum/f...play.php?f=114

Pretty in pink -- Recruits now have pink names on the HF forums (hehe).

If you would like to request additional information, please speak to HF's Warhammer Online Community manager, Musco.

Annual Reunions:

House Forsaken will have its annual East coast reunion in upstate New York this August. It is a chance for members and recruits alike to get to know one another prior to release of a game that will be HF's biggest supported title of the year.

Soon after the East coast reunion comes the West coast annual reunion. Dates and place will be determined (the talk is Southern California or Las Vegas).

Vent Meet and Greet:

Come see what all the talk is about. House Forsaken will have two meet and greets in the upcoming weeks. The next one will be held Tuesday, July 22nd at 8pm on HF's Ventrilo server. Come talk to game staff, members, and other recruits. Get questions answered and see if House Forsaken is the right guild for you.

Links to all HF Guild interviews:

Warhammer Vault - Guild of the Week (November 07'):

http://warhammervault.ign.com/View.php?view=Columns.Detail&id=133

Warhammer Alliance - Guild Spotlight (February 08'):

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/articles/showentry.php?e=58

Ten Ton Hammer - Guild of the Month (March 08'):

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/28635

Warhammer Conflict - Guild is Conflict (May 08'):

http://www.warhammerconflict.com/index.php?showtopic=1599

Other HF Game titles:

Team Fortress 2 has been an outstanding pre-Warhamemr Online game. Many WAR members and recruits are getting into league play and are using a member run server to build friendships with other members/recruits. It currently has 33 members and recruits.

EvE Online members are starting to grow in numbers again. House Forsaken (12) and the Oblivion Corporation are proud to continue their partnership in the game and providing help for one another in completing missions.

New Games Announced:

Though Warhammer Online will be a huge hit, HF has announced the support for the following games as well; showing the ability to be a solid multigaming guild: CoD5, WoW, D3, SC2. The new games will allow the guild to continue with the FPS genre, continue the WoW guild in the expansion, go back to guild roots in the Diablo series in 1996, and return to RTS gaming with an old but familiar Starcraft series where HF first made their name as one of the top SC clans in the world, 1997.

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Laminad

 

HF UPDATE:

Membership:

House Forsaken currently has 71 members and recruits for the release of Warhammer Online. HF is at 315 total for all of its games. Though it seems like a lot, we have already denied close to 30 applicants due to not meeting HF's standards and we plan to continue making entry into the guild harder as time goes on.  Currently all recruits must wait until after the release to be voted on.  Once the game is live, look for a halt in recruitment until the dust settles.

Communications:

Though recruiting properly is on our mind constantly to uphold the community feel through our communications on all levels of game, web post, voice chat, and in person.

-FORUMS - Our forums are getting more hits than they have in the last 13 years our guild has existed. Unbelievable to have 200+ posts daily and to reach 350 twice this week; pushing our guild forum statistics records. One other record includes logins where we have nearly 100 unique user logins every day.

-VENTRILO - Though other games do use TS and Vent for chats, we have had some interesting Meet and Greets. We welcome anybody to attend whether you are planning on joining or would liek to see what it is like.

-GATHERING - Ask both recruits and members that attended our annual upstate New York gathering and they will all say it was successful. They camped out under the stars, went water skiing and had a great time. We hope our West coast gathering will be similar.

-BETA - They are playing. I can't say much else.

Other HF NEWS:

-SPONSORSHIP - House Forsaken would like to announce the new sponsorship by DarkStar Communications. We hope to take full advantage of it by opening up new game support on the FPS side of the house. Currently we have Team Fortress 2 up and running very well with nearly 30 members and recruits. Yesterday, the new 100 tick Counter-Strike: Source server went online. DarkStar will provide us with a Ventrilo server as well and has given us a coupon code to provide friends of the guild 10% off DSC services. Feel free to ask one of our guild officers for it.

-KILL-HOUSE - House Forsaken is going to a whole new level. With the sponsorship, we are planning on intriducing a new web site in conjunction with our game servers to offer other clans and guilds community support as well. They will be given means to promote themselves within the KH community and be given other perks such as Guest Admin, Forums, Interviews/News features on the site, and share in the success that HF has had over the years and well into the future.

Need Info? Just visit us!

http://www.houseforsaken.com

 

Laminad

*Recruitment Closing Today, August 24th*

At the end of the day today, House Forsaken will be closing its doors to new recruits and will adopt an invite only policy.  It will be set to reopen a few weeks into release. 

We have chosen to do this not only because we were getting 10-15 applicants a day and our forum posts jumped from 300 to nearly 700 in a 24 hour period, but because we want to make sure that:

A) The current recruits get a fair month long trial as a recruit.

 Our guild community stays close and doesn't get a zerg mentality.

C) Let the kiddie dust settle after release while we concentrate on the game.

House Forsaken has been around for 12 years and the most important thing to us is our community.  Games come and go (WAR is No. 38 for us), but we would like membership to be impressed enough at our organization, ability, and other characteristics that they stick around. 

MEMBERSHIP:

HF has a total recruit and member list for WAR of 127 while HF overall is now at 366.  All 127 will be voted yes/no prior to the reopening of recruitment for our WAR guild, though recruitment for our other games still remain

WAR PRE-PLANNING:

We are currently on our last phase of pre-release planning.  For nearly two years we have planned for this game.  This includes gaining more fan site interviews than any other guild, sponsorship from Dark Star LLC, interactions on fan sites, RSS news feeds and guild meet and greets through TS and Vent as well as fan site supported events.

Our last stage will include among other things, the official standard selection and tactics, alliance overview, server selection, recruit timetable, and the closing of recruitment.

SERVER:

We were on Barak Varr prior to preview weekend, but the queues were a killer for just a beta.  We moved to Mad Dog Pass after the wipe.  House Forsaken's official server will be determined prior to the head start and release though we have concluded that it will be Open RvR.

On MDP we are the largest guild and after today will be the highest ranking.  Last night with the help of some smaller guilds, we took our first keep.

OTHER:

-If you want to know more about guild alliances, please contact one of our WAR staff members.

-All WAR gamers are welcome to visit our forums and play along side our guild.  It might be the only way to get an invite.

-For more information about us, please visit www.houseforsaken.com