Happenings around lately.

Have not been raiding recently in WoW due to people not turning up. Its quite dishearting to acutally continue to come on time everynight and trying to get a proper raid going to down bosses. Being a guild officer is so not fun and how many people acutally appreciates you leading the guild?

I think reasons being:

1) 7 core raiders have left the guild due to internal conflicts.
2) Other core raiders are sick of doing the same old content over and over again as progression cannot be continued due to the lack of skills + classes.

Now i'm starting to understand why most end game guilds have this in their recruitment threads:

All players are required to know their class well

It due to this that end game guilds are able to finish all the bosses in WoW. You need to know your own class well in order to survive better in fights and DPS better in fights too. With sub-par skills, the guild can never progress if people starts to die within 2 mins into the boss fight.

I'm starting to think if i should continuing even playing WoW when WoTLK comes out. Its like replaying the drama all over again rather than trying out the new stuffs Blizzard added in.

WoW has gotten too tiring for me to play, much less leading the guild.

WAR IS EVERYWHERE!

I've joined a WAR guild in the mist of quitting WoW and jumping onto the Warhammer bandwagon. I'm more of a PvPer than a PvEr.

This guild i'm in now, i must say that the management of this guild is very similiar to how i run my guild in WoW. I can forsee the heights and lengths on how this guild will go and ending up as a top guild.

But nevertheless Warhammer is yet to go live, we do not know if there will be dramas happening in this game which i hope it doesn't even happen. Sucks to be any guild who reaches rank 40 and getting disbanded just because of dramas.

Funds Raised So Far.

So far Scoga has raised a total of $6,341. Still quite a far back from $30,000. Keep those donations coming! :D

Eyepet. You want! I want!

Another cool idea by SONY using the Eyetoy technology.

Do you love puppies and kittens? How about virtual puppies and kitties? If you do you, you might enjoy the new Eyepet game that's just been announced. Check it out in the video above.It's a virtual pet game that allows gamers to interact with their pet by utilizing the PlayStation Eye peripheral. If you put an object in front of the PS Eye, the pet will interact with it on screen. If you wave your fingers in front of the PS Eye, you can tickle your "loveable, simian-like pet." Eyepet is developed by SCEE and will be available in "late 2009" for PAL regions.

Contradicting things i've seen

I've seen on some forums about people asking stuffs relating to the fundraising champaign.
What i want to say is......

Please read the whole of the site before you shoot your questions!

Most of the time the comments/questions given by these people are the people who are not even interested in helping as in not in terms of money but even in terms of helping to spread the word around.

Most of the answers you need can be found in the site and through some of the links found in the site too.

Seriously, why bother asking and instead slamming if you are not interested?

Support Local WCG Winners to Germany!

Initially i was thinking of opening this blog when i've updated it with more entries but with the launch of this fundraising champaign got me decided to open it up anyway.

If your are thinking why such a long entry since the last one was in was cause i was away for reservist and boy, you can never guessed that even a BC can cock up so much. Bastard must be a General on top of that.

That aside i would now ask all to help support our local gamers who now has a chance to represent Singapore for the WCG Grand Finals in Germany.

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The (Singapore) Cybersports and Online Gaming Association, more commonly known as SCOGA, was setup to develop local gaming communities, through education, to achieve international success and recognition for Singapore in competitive gaming.
In what has been hailed as the equivalent of the cyber Olympics, some of Singapore's best cybergamers will have to fund their own way to represent Singapore at the World Cyber Games (WCG) finals in Cologne, Germany in November 2008. Competing against 800 gamers from 70 countries, the top three winners of the national WCG rounds earn the right to play for their country in their respective games at the world finals, held in a different city each year*.
At least 3 of our Singaporean champs stand a good chance to win a medal at Cologne because they have proven themselves on the regional and international stage before, time and again. However, due to lack of sponsorships, they have to fund their own way to Cologne*.
We feel that this is for Singapore’s glory especially if they return with a medal and appeal to you to help us raise a total of S$30,000 to fly 6 Singaporean champions to represent Singapore in Cologne.
In case our target is not reached, we feel that 3 of these gamers have a good medal chance and priority will be given to them to fly – still, S$15,000 will be needed for air tickets, accomodations, and fees. We appeal to your generousity, and every dollar counts.

So yeah do your part and help Singapore win a Medal back or face the humilation of getting foreign talents into Singapore to win medals for us again.

Recent Happenings

Sorry for the uber long delay in updating this blog. There's been alot happening these few days.



Work and Guild Stuffs. Especially Guild Stuffs, its like when i was running a gaming clan since 1999 till now ALL the dramas i've seen is being replayed infront of me all over again. This time its like x10 fast forward speed.



Can i say Holy Sh1t?

[Encounter] Guild Dramas

So what exactly is a Guild Drama?

Drama: A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes putting the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena. - Wikipedia

So just add the word Guild and its basically a drama being played/acted out in a Guild (I like the word Natural Phenomena) LOL.

Just for all to know. I'm currently now a Guild Officer in my WoW (World of Warcraft) raiding guild. I would like to use my guild as an example on the problems the guild is facing and how it would wind up disbanding in the end.

The guild as of now has around 55 active registered members account IE to say we have around 55 guild members inside including the Guild Leader and Officers. The Guild as of now is still running as per normal.

I've read in the official WoW forums and came across this funny post from a fellow WoW player, and most of the issue that Skurd posted are happening in my guild now:

How to make a guild fail. By Skurd, Orc hunter, Thrall.

Everyone’s goal is to make their guild fail—to make it crumble fast and hard. Raid guilds bust up all the time, so this must be the case. Here’s some great tips on how you can ensure your guild will follow suit. Enjoy! (Obviously this is humor. it is a collection of rules i have been exposed to since i started playing wow in 05; it is also the reason I have left a few guilds in my time).

1) Have as many chiefs as you do Indians!
Be sure to appoint class leads in every class. Be sure to appoint someone the “guild main tank” and the “guild main healer.” Obviously, raid guilds are required to have class leads because they are so vastly manned. Be sure to have enough problems in your guild that you actually need class leads to help lessen the drama on all the upper-level officers in the guild.

Although we do not have an issue with Class Leaders problem as we've never appointed anyone. But we do have with an issue of Indian Chiefs. Well Basically Indian Chiefs are people who tries to influence other people onto their side as in thinking/goal/support.

Most of the time members needs to give opinions and suggestions to the guild management to think about/discuss and if its good then thus it will be implemented. As a leader its always good to give explaination on why this idea is good/bad and to give conclusions about it. Indian Chiefs normally will come about when its either they know that their idea will never be approve, always get rejected or its wrong for them to do it thus ending up acting on their own.

This is where all the problems start. I personally can never understand why someone can try and influence others so that they can so call have a big group to oppose the leaders or to go against a certain person. A guild should work together as a whole with 1 heart, 1 mind and 1 body.

I always like to use another term "Human Body" for Guild. In order for a guild to be prosperous it should work together as a whole with 1 heart, 1 mind and 1 body. Indian Chiefs are like a certain cancer virus in the body, it should be treated with medicine, follow by chemo and if those doesn't work then it has to be cut/removed out from the Body.

Read previous entry on what does it mean by being a leader

What will happen if nothing is done about it

Like all cancer cells, they will start to spread and thus infecting all the other good cells. This is also one of the biggest test EVERY guild will have to go through soon or later. It will determine how loyal your members are to the guild. Its like in the warhammer story where half of the Space Marine Chapters converted over to join the Chaos, its always easier to corrupt than to purify. This will also tells you how much respect you have all along in the hearts of the members.
Sometimes the truth can be painful.

Problem Sloving Solution

So let's say you have really been a bad leader and most of the members are not happy with the way you are running things around in the guild and the Indian Chief is going around doing his/her deed. I would suggest strongly that the leaders has to sit down with everyone and let them express their woes to you and try to savage the situation as much as possible.
Those who needs to leave will have to let them go. Correct all mistakes you've made and move on with the rest of the members you have.
Its very important to learn from the mistakes you've made and remember it. Repeating it will again bring your guild down.

Side Note

For the above point there's no fix solution to this but at the very start of the guild being setup. Leaders must have already the most basic knowledge and skills to run any organization. It has to be learnt through experiences and with alot of setbacks.
If the Management cannot work together. Then nothing can be done to save any organisation

Do check next entry for the other problems most guilds faced.

First blog post!

Well. My first post, so what should i talk about? The reason being that i created this blog is to gather all the data i've encountered as being a leader in a organization/guild/clan (Whatever you wish to call it) so that i could compiled it into an e-book in the future for other new/upcoming gaming bodies to learn from it. I will also try and anaylse each problems and try to give a solution to it.

There's so much to talk about that i do not know where to start....

Since this blog is all about leadership so i will start from there and i will use the word "Guild" as all the other words being used in a gaming organization.

What does it mean in being a Leader?

Someone once asked me what leadership means and what it requires to be a guild leader. This is something I wrote some time ago on the Lotro forums, and felt that perhaps it should be retained here.Leadership means many things. However, in my opinion, there are many more things that it does not. One of the most important things that you cannot forget in leadership is your people. This is, after all, who you are “leading.
- Taken from theangryguildleader.com

Like what the above quote mentioned "One of the most important things that you cannot forget in leadership is your people."

A guild is made up of a Guild Leader, follow by 2 - 3 Guild Officers and finally the members of the guild.

How does each role plays:

Guild Leader - He's the guy responsible for giving the guild the proper direction for the guild to head towards a goal, he's also the one who comes out/finalize all the guild rules and he's also the one where the rest of the guild members looks up to.

Guild Officers - These are the people who's helping the Leader to execute plans and to maintain law and order in all aspects of the guild. They also have some deciding power on what to do within the guild itself.

Members - These are the main bulk of people who makes up the rest of the guild and they are also the most important people in the guild. Although they have no ruling power in any of the guild matters but they do have the right to voice out things that concern the guild. They are also the ones who will bring the guild up to the next higher level.

There's also some other positions which can be found in a guild IE: Class Officers, Advisor, Treasurer etc but we will just touch onto the main roles for now.

Now read onto my next blog entry on more guild stuffs.