Breakfast Topic: Getting guildies to the website

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11-07-2009 @ 9:02AM

Grizzleton said...

Our guild's site (Ex Cinis Cineris on Farstriders: www.excincin.com) does a pretty brisk business, I'd say about a third of our 150 members use it on a regular basis, most use it at some time or another... only a few holdouts that pretty much never use it. We have something for everyone... Raid signups, RP story contests, class forums where you know you won't get flamed, a Troll's Lair where you know you might. Guild bank requests are done through the site (first to request gets it for a nominal fee of 5 silver/stack or item... not bad for a BoE purple). But then, Ex Cinis Cineris is an adult social guild, maybe that makes a difference, as we've even expanded into virtualized RL with a Facebook group.

11-07-2009 @ 9:27AM

Dmom said...

We have a live chat feature (we call it guild chat, jr.) on our guild website, which is very popular during the day for those who cannot log into the game from work.

11-07-2009 @ 10:47AM

Calavera said...

I think it often comes down to numbers, 100% of guild members will almost never use a guild site, much more likely 30% will, then it's just a difference if that's 2 or 50 people.
Our guilds website (http://shadowguardians.eu/) is frequented by about 10 out of close to 50 active members, so a fifth. Although many of these are officers, and as such our guildsite has become a quite efficient tool for officer business.

We have tried getting more people to use the guildsite with both useful information and a nice social atmosphere, recently we even had a contest for a TCG loot-card (6/50 people signed up) - but I guess some people just aren't the guildsite types.

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