My current guild is really starting to suffer from the summer blues. Attendance is down. Several people have quit. And they've been having a harder time fielding raids. And while they have recruited new people, none of them seem to be sticking around.
Of course, a part of this is the fact that an expansion is coming. And there's little incentive to keep playing right now. We're not likely to progress much farther, so it's just farming to hold the guild together for 3, 4, maybe even 5 months. Considering the state of the beta, I get the impression that we are a bit farther out than we were at this point with the Wrath expansion. By all reports, the Cataclysm beta is far more buggy and incomplete compared to the Wrath Beta at the same point.
For me, I've been having a harder time making runs than ever before. With my younger sister and her family moving in while their house is being built; and with my older sister here with her family from Brazil, and with all of the after-hours work I've been having to do...my attendance has been down. I'm expecting things to start to calm down in a week or so, but it's times like this where I really feel guilty no matter what I do. Miss a raid to spend time with family, and feel guilty about contributing to the attendance problem. Or raid, and feel guilty about missing time with my nieces and nephews, some of whom I won't really see for a whole year.
Actually, when I put it that way it's easy to pick between the two. But that doesn't help with the guild's attendance issue.
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