Fifty ways to leave a guild
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jan 30th 2007 at 8:00PM
Well, quite a few more than fifty. This Guild Relations forum thread of /gquit excuses has been going on for several months, listing the worst excuses for people quitting guilds from all over Azeroth. Among my favorites are:
- "The "Your Mom Is An Epic Mount" vent phonetic offended me."
- Someone /gquitting, leaving the raid and hearthing out ... at 30 percent on the guild's first ever Nef kill.
- "My grandmother is going to die soon, and I want to see the endgame before she does."
- A somewhat brutal gquit in the middle of Naxx.
- More of a /gsuicide: "If you knew what Middle Eastern country I was from, you wouldn't talk to me this way."
I've seen someone leave a guild because the guild wouldn't pay for their mount, and I've gquit myself once in the middle of the night because the guild leader terrified me (my one and only gquit), but I don't have any really cool /gquit tales. What about you? Is there a right way to leave a guild, or do you only know of hilariously wrong ways?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Lighttech Jan 30th 2007 8:29PM
I am just a recent upstart in the World of Warcarft, but I have quit every guild I have signed up for. Mostly because most of them are just people who are looking for a larger guild population and not because they want to actually play with their members. But if there is any serious guild out there in Muradin who is looking for a lvl 40 Dwarf Hunter send Bobthedude a pst. And don't worry, I already bought a mount so I am not looking for free gold, just folks to play with.
myssiing Jan 30th 2007 8:30PM
In my opinion and experience, you have to treat a guild like a company in some respects. The only correct way to leave a guild, get good references, and possibly come back if things didn't work out (I've seen this on multiple occassions), is if you wait for the right time (NOT in the middle of the raid), DON'T make it a public affair, and speak to the guild leader directly about exactly why you're leaving and you're immediate concerns with the guild. Nine times out of Ten the problem can be corrected, and a /gquit is not necessary. The key is not to be vulgar or offensive when you're doing it.
Some of the worst /gquits I've seen have been because one person just couldn't get along with another person, didn't get the loot they wanted, or felt they weren't appreciated enough. The funniest one was when somebody left due to the fact that, "(they) weren't getting enough end game experience, and you guys just don't pvp enough for me." He ended up /gquitting, and to this day is still looking for another guild, claiming to have been key in endgame in our guild, and also claiming to have been a raid leader. We just laugh.
Galipan Jan 30th 2007 9:09PM
Whenever I've left a guild it's because I wasn't respected as an officer, or it was because the guild was just plain nonesense. I was part of a guild with 350 members, and not one of them ever wanted to do an instance. Guild chat for me was just Barrens chat. The best way to leave a guild is on friendly terms and in a situation where people won't think of you as the dude who wanted l33t epikxs.
Anytime I have left, I have always spoken or sent a mail to the guild leader or Class Officer. That way people aren't flaming you on the Stormwind general channel, saying: " is a noob! Don't let him in your guild! He'll take your money, ninja in instances, and then gquit! FU !!"
daz Jan 30th 2007 9:11PM
I have been playing for 3 months and I just joined the first guild that asked me to join.
So a week later I asked,
"How do you leave a guild?"
"lol why would you want to?" was the reply.
I said I wanted to start my own and people were cool with that, and explained to me how to leave.
Guilds reflect the attitude/intensity of the group.
Its funny how the same people stuff, not getting along, just being a kook/n00b, is recreated so faithfully in a video game. This people stuff is what really keeps you hooked I think. :)
Adam Chance Jan 30th 2007 9:55PM
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I want it!
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D4 Jan 30th 2007 11:08PM
I had this on two occasions last night.
One kid was calling everyone in the guild "Virgin" so I made a rank lower then everything called "Virgin" and moved him to it for no more then 10 seconds. As I was moving him back up he gquit then whispered me
"Hey &*#$ you buddy, i've prob done it more times then you have and im only 15" couple of mins later he asked to be reinvited. I told him what i thought of him.
Couple of hrs later (keep in my that this guild is new formed consisting mainly of lower levels. One guy called "Noob" (but he had the weird triangle thing above the o) was asking for 40g for something. When he asked one of the guildies they replied "No, Sorry Noob."
He then later whispered me saying. "I'm leaving, i dont appricate being called a noob"
I had a bit of a giggle and continued leveling.
Dixonij Jan 30th 2007 11:08PM
Seriously Adam Chance. What UI is that and where can I gank it from?
Chris Jan 30th 2007 11:20PM
As a co-GM of our guild, the worst /gquit I have experienced was from one of our officers. He took private comments posted in our officers forum (who need to vent in private about some of the members sometimes) and posted them for all to see on his personal MySpace site.
He then sent a mail and forum message to just about every member of the guild expressing his vitriolic dislike (in rather colorful language) of all the officers and did a /gquit.
Surprisingly, 6 weeks later, he is still unguilded and our guild has never been happier.
crsh Jan 31st 2007 12:09AM
I was in a guild where the GM kinda annoyed me, but it was mild enough to ignore; however, since I was part of said guild for a total of 5 months, I grew more and more weary of said GM because he kept quoting Machiavelli's The Prince, he even told us it was his life inspiration. Anyway, I lamely used a pretext to /gquit later on, something about not getting along with people in the guild.
Not a biggie to most people I guess, but anyone who fancies that book and holds it so dear to their heart scares the living shit out of me.
Hank Jan 31st 2007 2:10AM
I quit my 'second' guild, which was really my first when it merged with another after an entire week of begging, pleading, and attempting to bribe people to help me with quests in STV. I was a complete noob at the time, but the guild chat was completely silent, and 20 people were on. When I did get help, it was always the same 2 or 3 guys, and eventually, I got more help in STV from someone in another guild, which I joined shortly thereafter. I even got better at playing my toon because THIS guild actually offered advice.
Dibbes Feb 1st 2007 1:51PM
I'm at my third guild now. Always been at the same guild as my rl best friend. The first we left, because the guild became extinct - some of the officers had a fight and most of them left, taking alot of members with them.
In the second guild it started out fine, but all the officers were out on raids all the time, us little bit lower leveled players were on our own most of the time.
This guild is up to now always ready to help whenever possible.
Only had problems with some non-officer members, but then again, thos members had problems with about anybody.
The key to a good guild is the willingness to help other members (not for porwerleveling, but to get them past some hard parts in the game) and just having fun talking in guildchat.
Mats Jan 31st 2007 4:29AM
I was the warlock leader on our guilds first try on Molten Core, and I was giving this one warlock his Curses and what people to Soulstone at what time.
After I gave him the rundown and had started to give the next warlock his info, he stopped me and said "hey, I know how to play my warlock, don't tell me what to do, I'll cast what curses I see best"
I go "Hu? No, we need you to cast CoE, the mages do far more damage then. We need to work as a team"
Then he left the raid and did a /gquit.
Never saw the guy again.
yotix Jan 31st 2007 7:35AM
A rogue in our guild (female gnome, female name):
All we ever heard was
a) 59x "Hooray I have just levelled"
b) about 20x "Could some of our 60ies pull me through this instance please?"
c) On reaching 60: "Bye, I'm leaving the guild ... since I am now 60 I can join my son's guild"
So, erm ...
a) Everyone knows there are female WoW players,
b) Some of them are mothers. Not surprising.
BUT
c) There's people who invite their own MOM into their GUILD? I'm horrified.
Way to go, mother :)
Ltw Jan 31st 2007 7:15AM
My best /gquit was about a year ago. I was in a guild on Frostwolf called Brotherhood of the Wolf. Pretty much it was just for people to join and kiss the GM's a$$. He wanted to have a guild meeting, so he went and stood on Thrall's throne. Since it was February, all the valentine's day flowers and lights were around. So while he was speaking, he had one person constantly showering him with rose petals, and another putting a light on him. I told them that as i wanted nothing to do with their sausage party, i was out. I then formed a guild right outside the door.
Zuuler Jan 31st 2007 7:15AM
My 2 younger brothers had been playing WOW long before I started, so when I started playing, they got me into their guild, which lasted all of a week, when my brothers left and started their own guild, which I joined.
Eventually it was decided to join an end game guild, and keep alts and whatever on the guild we had started.
The first "end game" guild we went to never raided.
The second "end game" guild could never get enough people together to raid.
The third end game guild actually did do raids, but as far as lvling (i was still around lvl 50 when we joined this guild) or even instance running, it was a nightmare to get groups for either. Lots of people left the guild over this. The guild leaders in response began booting people out, saying that removing the trash would make us a stronger guild and better at end game instances. They never ran another raid after that as they never had more than 13 people on at any given time (even peack time Saturday night). At one point, one guild leader said "We are a raidin guild, not a lvling guild, don't ask for help or run throughs in the guild chat". This is when I decided I was not staying. I stayed for one more week in hopes I could get help for my dreadsteed. I did get help from a warrior and a priest... and a mage who had left the guild a week earlier.
I understand the concept of an end game guild, but when you're not raiding then theres no reason not to go out and run instances or help guildies. I can understand if people were asking for instances runs or help while the guild was in a raid, but they didn't run raids that often anyway.
I just think a guild should be a place to go look for help instead of spamming the general chat.
I'm in another guild now, we'll see how that works out. So far I have gotten help from guildies, but there are rarely any on at the same time I am. I've taken to adding good players to my friends list and going to them for instance groups. I find this to be much easier than the lookingforgroup channel or the LFG tool (as it seems no one ever uses the tool).
Synik Feb 1st 2007 9:35AM
Quitee: 'IM QUITINGG U GUYS R ALL RTEARDS'
Me: 'rofl! Okey doke' (He was not well loved in our Guild at the time)
---5 minutes later---
Quitee: 'HWO DO I QUIT A GILD????'
My ribs still hurt from laughing so hard. Those are direct quotes from him by the way, typos and all.
Zaud Jan 31st 2007 9:59AM
@15
In my guild, we have an entire family playing. Mom (warrior), Dad (also warrior), and teenage son (mage). I think the funniest thing i've ever seen is when we needed CC for Live Strat and I heard Mom over Vent tell her son to stop doing homework so he could sheep for us. :)
chris Jan 31st 2007 8:45AM
We had an...issue...with the GM in my old guild harassing a RL girl in the guild.
About 20 of us gathered around the ring of smoking ashes in Ironforge and /gquit at the same time. We formed a short holding guild, then a few went separate ways (a couple to Risen, a couple to another raiding guild that is no more, and one just sorta wandered off) and the rest ended up where we are now.
Apocolipto Jan 31st 2007 9:16AM
Wow it seems like alot of you take this game to the extream. "Guilds" hah, I got paid 2 gold to join one, and then I quit right after I got my gold. It makes no differince to me. This is a game, if the people you play with are lame, and they dont ever want to work with eatchother to get anywhere then wth are you doing waisting your time, Iv quit a ton of guilds just because I dont feel like having there name floating over my guys head. I'm not playin this GAME to get new friends, haha F that. I play it to kill shit and do cool spells or whatever. Guilds are just a group of dumb ass people that got together and made up a name then think they kick ass. GJ GJ