In WoW Classic there was a curious incident. A whole realm joined forces to get rid of a new guild. On the realm Kromcrush, a new Horde guild was bullied out.
In World of Warcraft Classic, many players have developed a close connection to their server and its structure. On the US PvP realm Kromcrush, there was an incident that forced a Horde guild to its knees, leading to its disbandment.
Nearly 400 Alliance players focused on one Horde guild to drive them off the server.
What happened? The realm Kromcrush has a significant imbalance. 38% Alliance are up against a staggering 62% Horde players.
The guild “Swamp” wanted to transfer from the realm Incendius to Kromcrush. Since that would be another large Horde guild, it would only exacerbate the imbalance.
When the players from Kromcrush noted that this wouldn’t help the realm, the guild responded that they didn’t care. The rest of the players “just have to deal with it.” That’s exactly what the players did.
Horde boycotts guild – Alliance strikes
This is how the realm reacted: After the guild transferred, a united front against Swamp immediately formed. The other Horde players refused to cooperate with the members of Swamp. They neither sold them materials nor joined their groups. But the Horde was not the only faction that turned against Swamp.
The Alliance also made life difficult for Swamp. When the guild wanted to spend their first raid night in Molten Core, around 400 Alliance players gathered to prevent the guild from doing so. They repeatedly killed Swamp players on their way to the raid entrance. Especially the guild and raid leader was continually stopped by mind control from even reaching the raid.
Horde players from other guilds have been generously looking the other way. Although the Horde dominates the realm, Swamp received no help from other Horde members and faced the overwhelming power alone.
On other realms, a Tauren has previously been kidnapped for a long time – but he played along.
Guild disbanded: The “finale” was reached when Swamp finally arrived in Molten Core after many hours of delay. The pressure became evidently too great and there was the realization that they wouldn’t get a foothold on this realm. After the raid leader was held up for hours, he said they would “see each other in 3 months.” He disbanded the guild and logged out of the game immediately. The scene was captured in a stream:
With the 3 months, he referred to the period that members of Swamp have to wait to transfer again. This is only possible every 3 months.
Other players find strange ways to reach their raid – like the streamer Shroud with a private jet.
What do you think of this approach? Is it cool that the server held together to counter further imbalance? Or should the guild Swamp not have been treated this way?
