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As I was flooded with whispers by people who wanted to know what had happened with Endless, we are going to post this - the last news -
to set an official statement. Yes we have taken down raid activity (25 man content) and -no- we don't know yet if there will be people keeping the guild tag alive, that reminds of one of the few ambitioned raiding guilds on Rexxar, or if we are going to disband the guild. It will take time for thinking what each of our guild is going to do, if they want to go on raiding with any other guild, if they will transfer realm, quit the game or just stay and play casually with the good old guildtag shown upon their game characters. Some asked if there were conflicts. No there was no dispute. The kind of content changes, that have had big influence on the fun of raiding content and keeping the team together, reached a point we couldn't cope with anymore. At the beginning of the WotLK expansion we had been pretty motivated, even though progression as we knew wasn't existing anymore. We cleared the new content within only one ID, and accepted achievements as the new kind of raid content, but even at that time we were asking ourselves often if this will be the way we want to go and tried to figure out what the sense of the new game design was. So we were hoping for patch 3.1 and kept on doing what we were used to do - raiding the already known content and waiting for something new. The 3.1 release seemed to highly motivate the whole team. Ulduar had been nicely tuned and we had to handle problems with the new encounters and noticed that killing bosses brainlagging through the dungeon, didn't work anymore, which was positive. But it did only take a week until Blizzard started reducing challange and we guessed they are going on milking the cash cow at the expense of challenges. The team had been motivated until Yogg Saron was defeated. Right after the kill attendence collapsed, some went to vacation that time and so we had to cancel planned raids. First one, then another and then so many, that we even rarely raided half of the planned times. We were often talking about the attendence problems within the team and quickly figured out that raidmotivations had been departed due to the fact that some just wanted to improve on the killed encounters and farm more equip, others prefered to progress by trying out hardmodes, again others wanted to concentrate on semi-hardmodes first and some wanted to concentrates on achievements. We tried to combine all motivations - solved some semi-hardmodes, spent a few evenings working on the real hard-modes and occasionaly went through to Yogg for some new gear and achievement. But not everyone had been keen on every part of what kind of content we played, which was influencing success of what we did a lot and most of us lost fun, not least knowing that 100% motivation for the different kinds of raiding would be impossible. We tried to push recruitement (which was even set all the time) to fill empty slots and let people choose raids they prefered, but as the recruitement market had been crashed completely already at the beginning of the expansion and we didn't want to lose quality for quantity we had to make a decision. It was me, who announced quitting World of Warcraft first, as I lost fun completely cause of the whole new game process. Whithin only few minutes, all members that achieved a major role in the guild followed and so we can foreclose that Endless won't carry on taking significant part in progress raiding anymore and will become completely casual or - in worst case - will be disbanded. What's left, are a lot of friendships and especially memories of amazing times, great experiences and an once awsome game. I for my part, wish those ambitioned raids on Rexxar all the best and success and hope they'll climb up rankings, to push the good old Rexxar to where it belongs. I want to thank anyone of our team, for the great time, the loyalty and the friendship. I also want to thank all those people on our realm for the support and cheering us up often. Thanks to all those people even cross-realm we could talk to and get advises from, whenever needed and I want to specially thank Local, Desty and Frostschock aka Neils, for their commitment and the great job they did in and for the guild and raidteam. It had been an honour to play with all of you! Charla -16.06.09- ©Endless 2007 - 2009 |
