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Guild leaders beware. Funcom GMs at their best.
Caligulug
Member Posts: 283
Guild leaders beware!
In the most rediculous example yet of Funcom and their GMs incompetence yet I make this post.
I am a guild founder on the Dagoth server. Guild name ARCH. We have a tier two city, tier three keep and a battle keep. This guild had over 200 members.
My self and a number of officers decided to leave the game and go to WAR. We still had a large contingent of people who wanted to stick it out in AoC. So after some discussion I made new officers and a new guild leader from those faithful folks that were staying.
There was one player inparticular who I did not promote. He took offense to this and started cuasing trouble. He LEFT the guild with his main character however he still had an "alt" in the guild.
This player in his spite contacted a GM, feed the GM a line of bull and the GM, GET THIS made his alt the guild leader of the guild. This player then kicked every single player from the guild thus destroying our guild city and our battle keep. Oh, Also he stole all the gold and building mats from the guild bank. He admitted to doing all this to the guild leader that we promoted, luckily he saved chat logs of it and perhaps some action can be taken by Funcom to reverse this and or ban this player for his actions.
The person we actually made the guild leader logged on to find the guild and all its accomplishments GONE. He contected a GM, the GM told him there is no record of the guild ever having excisted! We were one of the first guilds formed on the server, our guild city was in instance number ONE in lach plains. When the guild leader asked what happened to the guild the GM just shrugged his shoulders and actually offered him GOLD to go away.
When asked, the GM said it is funcoms polocy that if a guild leader has not logged on for 30 days then a GM can take this kind of action. Well me being the guild founder, I was logged into the game 7 days ago to take care of promotions and make the new guild leader. So how exactly do they confirm such a thing? Do they just ask the retard who is asking to be made guild leader?
So guild leaders BEWARE, any retard of any level can just contact a GM and be made guild leader of your guild without your knowledge or consent and they he can destroy your guild. And funcom will help them do it then shrug their shoulders at you after saying sorry nothing we can do.
Worst game management error I have ever heard of in a game period. Funcom you have really earned the name FAILCOM.
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Do all your guildies a favour, ask them all to leave this pile of crap...
RIP Orc Choppa
Now the rest of your guild has an excuse to go to WAR no?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~!
This does not surprise me. One reason a game company should use native English speaking people.
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...I'm in your panties
Seriously,
I have seen bad things happen before in other MMO's and some screw up's here and there.
But this really baffles me beyond believe! What in earth kind of morons and incompetent retards have Funcom hired into their GM department.
I know it's hard to get IT personel here in Norway at the moment, but seriously tho. Better having a smaller GM staff with longer waiting times, then a large GM staff filled with complete nutcases!
And seeing what happened with the new Moderators they have hired a while ago it clearly shows Funcom is really trying to dig their own grave. And I mean a very very deep grave the least.
Reading all this crap only means I will never ever want to go back to any game of Funcom ever again. As all your accomplishments can be destroyed in an instance, if you accidently invite a tard into your guild.
Even worse that their GM tools are appearantly NON-existant as obvious and basic things like guild disbanding info and guild logging in general is appearently not even available to them *gasp*
I actually really don't want to know what the hell is going on there in the office of Funcom. It can't be a healthy atmosphere atm.
Have a nice day.
This has got to be one of the worst issues I have heard yet in regards to AoC. In most cases like bugs, gameplay and content can be fixed... but letting actions like this go abound with no regard for their own set policy... Absolutely mind-boggling.
This seals the deal for me, as well as others. AoC and Funcom are two entities to stay far far away from.
Just when we thought nothing could get worse.. this is simply unbelieveable. Yet, I do believe it.
omg, this is such a sad case, and you say lot of your guildies wanted to stay? they were having fun in the game enough to stay in it, yet got kicked in the ass
Omg this could be also bunch of lies.
Iam not saying that you did lie but its kinda strange you still recruit and there is no info about that AoC guild is gone on your guild site: www.archcommunity.com ( or maybe I missed it )
Btw I know one of EU guilds were also splitting in 2 devisions, one that would stay in AoC and the other that head to WAR. The guild leader promoted a member to a guild leader and that one got pissed after a week and he kicked all members out and left the guild ..
The ex guild leader wanted to help out his aoc members so he made up a story how someone else was promoted to guild leader by GM ...
GM contacted the guild leader who kicked members out and he told him that he got fed up by bitching of ex guild leader thats why he kicked everyone and deleted guild ... he also provided some screen shots of chat when he was promoted to new guild leader.
Futilez[Do You Have What It Takes ?]
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I've been watching this story unfold on the official AoC forums since yesterday.
*Edit*
Some screenshots or chat logs would be helpful in backing things up though
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I actually remember reading about the same thing happening to another guild months ago.
I simply cannot believe that Funcom has done nothing to change teir rules when it comes to such things since the first instance of it happening.
I looked the Funcom threads supplied
And I have to say how 'helpful' the comments of the community are, and also that not a single CS or GM has posted anything
I have to say if this kind of thing happened to me in a game, i would issue a chargeback on my credit card and then i would be firing Emails off to all the relevant people to try and get a response
I am now so glad i didnt decide to buy this game.....
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OMG! Sorry this happened to you! That sucks!
I'd be pissed too if that happened to me also. Glad i dont play it anymore.
I remember playing and not having a quest reward given to me. When i contacted a GM they told me well i cant give it to you even though they knew i didnt get it.
I feel your pain.
Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR.
Playing EVE Online and AOC.
Wtg for SW:TOR and WOD
Not saying that this is true, or if the ex guild leader is mistaken, but there is something to consider in this story.
Most of us here can readily believe that it could have happened based on the past performance of the company that runs this game.
That is truly an indictment of Funcom.
With AoC's GM track record, thats highly doubtful but it would be nice to see screenshots
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
OP, very sad story. It would go a long way if you could post some screen shots of this conversation.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
FC keeps throwing out bigger and bigger hints that they don't want to be in the MMO business.
We dont wont them in the MMO business either.
you claim to have records of the chat logs...care to post em here so we can tell if this is truth or fabricated (i don't disbelieve you...but as stated before, it could very well be some kind of wierd hoax)
also, i'm not sure what to think about famines response to this...closing the thread because both sides of the story couldn't be heard? what, they already know they banned that guy from the forums or something?
You dont think it has anything to do with the fact they are terrible at making MMO's do you?
Well if you can believe it, because I couldn't till I saw it was Funcom actually contacted me after seeing this post.
They are looking into the issue they assure me and I will let you know what the out come is.
Logs would only serve to smear the individual. While the logs prove there is no doubt he is responsible for deleting the guild, this was a VERY preventable situation since he should never have been granted the authority to do what he did in the first place. Funcom had no right. Furthermore, I still cannot comprehend why Funcom GMs would tell us there was no evidence our guild ever existed. Battlekeep? Nope didnt exist. Tier 3 city? Nope didnt exist. Guild? Nope didnt exist. Just shocking. If they cant prove a guild existed, how do they handle hacking? Duping? Cheating? No logs there either?
That said, I was on vent speaking with the rightful guild manager as this situation unfolded, and no its not some "weird hoax", just the most unimaginable and stupid thing I have ever witnessed or heard of in an mmorpg.
sry, i'm in no way implying that i don't believe you...but i believe the term "screenshots or it didn't happen" is going to come up quite abit. either way...it never should have happened like that. kind of makes me wonder if i can go and steal my guild because our guild leader recently left : /
ditto.
Maybe our corespondant Avery could help your situation here by contacting Funcom as the mods on your forums do not want to answer.
Avery is a hard working guy maybe he can aid you in getting to the bottom of this.
proof please