If there's one thing playing on Jade Quarry has taught me, it's this: people who are really, seriously into world PvP are really bottom-of-the-barrel tier scum.
It's a little harsh, but I can't think of any polite way to put it. These guys are willing to extoll, at length, the virtues of world PvP, but they are all invariably ego-driven idiotic chucklefucks of the highest caliber.
Special thanks to JadeQuarry.com for helping me finally attain the conclusion to something about MMO players that's been itching at the back of my mind for a while. Not a lot of time spent lurking the forums there makes how much of a retarded ego circlejerk the WvWvW "community" really is quite apparent.
I unwittingly got wrapped in the still-fresh MMAC/AoS debacle. Menaace, the "franchise owner" of MMAC (Mixed Martial Arts and Crafts--an absolutely brilliant guild name) tried to depart from JQ.com's shithole by creating a new site for more serious, on-topic WvWvW discussion called the Emerald Council. I sent him a big message telling him how I agree with his disgust with JQ.com and wishing him better luck with EC; he eventually hooked me up with a guild invite to MMAC. Little did I know, the people he had charged with leadership of the GW2 guild were on the cusp of demanding Menaace step down from leadership because of all the retarded, retarded forum drama. Menaace responded by clear cutting all of the dissenting leadership, who promptly responded by creating their own guild and dragged most of the active membership of MMAC with them. I'm sitting on membership in both guilds (but only representing my own now) while the dust clears; I wish MMAC and EC success still but it's clear that MMAC is now going nowhere, and while I became fast associates of several okay dudes in what is now Army of Shepherds, I firmly believe they're another drop in the pond of the sea of leaderless shits who run around Jade Quarry's WvWvW thinking they're tactical geniuses.
I'd also tried to start a guild to use as an impromptu Looking For Dungeons channel, but after about a week and a half of recruiting (managed to get just shy of 100 members at its peak), I basically gave up since it was turning into too much work for how useless it turned out to be and anyways Lion's Arch general chat serves the same purpose.
Aside from all of the above, I have my own lil personal guild that I enjoy some peace and quiet in whilst I accumulate influence. I now have my own private guild bank and am close to having my own set o' guild armor available. Also, some teenage kid keeps messaging me to ask my advice on random subjects.
UPDATE 11/28/2012: I discovered probably about a week ago that Menaace has since transferred to another server to join some other guild and he's deleted both the Emerald Council and MMAC websites. Lending further credibility to the argument that he's a complete whackjob, he was caught fervently pretending to be a member of AoS on GW2Guru. All this made the decision on which guild to stick with that much easier.
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