Last week one of our new guild members decided to form a raid group for the weekly raid boss. Shortly after forming and starting the raid whispers went out to our guild leader. Players in the PUG raid complained that the new guy wasn’t handling loot in a fair manner, was kicking players without warning or reason and in general acting like a douchecock.
My GM kicked the guy out of the guild.
It wasn’t the first time that we had heard of the guy running a PUG raid improperly. We had warned the kid to run a raid the right way or not at all but obviously it didn’t sink in. There were also other issues with the guy, he showed up to raids high, performed poorly and in general had a bad attitude.
Leadership in my guild is fairly relaxed. Kicking someone out is a big deal because we are a “family guild”. I tried working with the guy to improve his performance, even went so far as to purchase epic gems for the guy to bump up his numbers. His attitude was an issue, but we attributed it to the fact that he was high ALL THE TIME. We didn’t like the drug issue, but we cannot control our members and let it slide.
So was my GM right in dropping the guy? Why did he even do it?
I think the boss man was totally correct in his actions. This wasn’t a rage kick, nor was it some type of immature decision to prove a point. The guy was a cancer to the guild and needed to be cut out before he ruined us. Like I said before, there were many things we simply let slide, but as nice as the leadership is, there is only so much shit we take before we start pushing back.
The biggest reason that he was kicked was because of our image. My guild is the oldest guild on the server and is known as a stable, low profile raiding guild that clears content. We aren’t the best in the world but we do push our selves. Having someone in the guild that projects the image of a baby throwing a tantrum because he or she didn’t get their way reflects negatively on us. When a player groups with “Douchecock guild member” and sees how they lead raids and how they work with others, they are going to think that the whole guild in turn will lead raids and act in that fashion.
The player was a cancer to the guild and portrayed a bad image to the rest of the server. On a LOW population server where every potential recruit is important, having a poor image can destroy a guild.