Head Count for Mod 9 wait

[Quanefel]

In the last 2-4 months of this Mod 9 delay I have lost near 1/2 to 3/4th's of my guild. Some have said they might return "if" Mod 9 returns, others have simply given up despite any positive spin I have given them to address their concerns. There are a few others not too far behind the ones who left already. There is not much of anything I can think of to convince them to hold on just a little longer.

So my question out there to all guilds, mostly guild leaders or officers, what is the head count of your guild %-wise as of the last few months? This not a dooooom thread, this is a serious assement of what we are really looking at with our loses as individual guild memebers dropping. Please be honest in any numbers or %, it will help to gauge this better if anyone is going to respond to this.

As it stands now for me as a guild leader of a guild I made the first month of playing, 3+ years of having my guild is looking like I will have to disband and ask my guild to either join me by merging with a bigger guild or go their own way for a guild of their choice. I do not know what to do about this, I do not want to abandon my guild that I created because of...."this" Mod 9 problem.

[Jondallar]

Not a guild leader but an officer.

In my guild on Ghallanda i'd say there are 5 active players left from about 16 hardcores with the majority of those who have left being bitter towards turbine for the handling of mod9

on argo the guild has 8-12 active memebers (nightly players) down from 20-25ish with most bored from the wait for mod9..some bitterness towards turbine

[bandyman1]

So my question out there to all guilds, mostly guild leaders or officers, what is the head count of your guild %-wise as of the last few months?

Not good Q.

PWNY is doing better than either of the other guilds that I hold officership in, but even we have suffered loss.

I will not give numbers here. That is a job for guild leaders, IMHO

I hold out hope that some will return with Mod 9s release ( assuming any of us are still here ), but I know better than to expect even half of them back.

[SlipperyPete]

Medium size guild on Ghalanda where any given night would have between 7 to 15 players on from 7pm to 2am. The most I've seen is three in the last couple weeks.

My sub is up in 12 days, I'm not renewing until mod 9 at which time I'll read input before deciding to re-up.

I feel no loyalty anymore twoards the game. This lack of...anything is total BS.

[Quanefel]

Not good Q.

PWNY is doing better than either of the other guilds that I hold officership in, but even we have suffered loss.

I will not give numbers here. That is a job for guild leaders, IMHO

I hold out hope that some will return with Mod 9s release ( assuming any of us are still here ), but I know better than to expect even half of them back.

I know, I am feeling the pinch on my guild members all leaving as well. No, don't need exact numbers but a good estimate on %-wise is ok.

A few of mine I know will probably never be coming back. Just...depressing.

[GlassCannon]

We've lost some, gained some, and are holding steady with about 10-14 steady players and 20 or so casual gamers in the main guild I run with. Some of the new folks are quite skilled.

In the other guild I tend to mentor(I stick around for this mainly), there are between 30 and 50 active members with I don't know how many casuals.

The game is barely hanging on, but it is indeed hanging on.

[Deriaz]

I don't log in a whole lot, since graduation is next week for my high school and I've got finals/the graduation to worry about, but judging by forum participation for our guild, we're still going at 100%, if not actually a little higher since one person returned -- at least to roleplay a little more.

I'm not entirely sure that's accurate though. I do know that I haven't seen anyone talk about leaving or anything, on the other hand.

-D

[barecm]

Waaaaay down. I would say 90%. There are only 3-4 people left who log in anymore and I haven't done so in 3 days. Mod 9 delay is the reason everyone bolted. The problem is that gamers like to game. So, if they are not playing DDO, they are playing something. And that something may become the replacement for DDO if it hasn't happened already.

[Demonfire]

As guildleader of Les Seineurs de Karrnath on ghallanda i can give you exact numbers:

Out of our 28 regular members 13 are on a break due to lake of content or playing WoW while waiting mod 9. On the 15 remaining i would say that half of it is about to go as well, some have not connected in the last 2-3 weeks!

So we lost pretty much 50% because of Turbines nice jobe and we are about to lose another 25% so at this speed we will be like 5-7 online!

Good jobe Turbine... at least at destroying your own game you kick some serious @$$!

[Belwaar]

Officer.

We've actually brought in 5 or 6 hardcore players in the past month. We lost maybe 4 or 5 in the past 3 months or so, but we're pretty much even. Got some new fresh blood that's keeping things interesting. We're also starting a permadeath division to keep our really hardcore players busy/interested.

Of the people that left, 2 are moving, and 3 state they're coming back.

[Xyrandina]

Leader of Ancient Civilization

We had 20 people logging on daily...now I see anywhere from 1-4 people log in. They stayed in the guild, and we all still talk via our guild website, but most have canceled their account and are off doing another things.

We're all going to move to a different game (at least until mod 10 or 11 if it ever makes it that far) here once we can decide on one.

Most say that Mod 9 isn't enough for them to return to DDO.


- X

[Arianrhod]

5-player guild (semi-static group). No one leaving. Hardly anyone even knows there is a "mod 9", let alone cares when it will be out. We're still working our way up to mod 4 or 5 stuff.

[Kadran]

My guild is down to about 3 active players, and we're rarely on at the same time. -.-

[Kerrn_Siff]

My guild is down to about 3 active players, and we're rarely on at the same time. -.-

about the same here. In last year or a bit we went from being able to field multiple simultaneous guild only raids to this. Mod 7 got long in the tooth then Mod 8 lost us the lion's share of our people. The wait for Mod 9 has killed off most of those trying to still hold on.

[Sanadil]

For Inferus Sus on Thelanis (Officer Here)

There is 5 people on Hiatus. Myself and the leader included. We are playing LOTRO atm, until Mod9 hits.

With that being said, our guild numbers are still strong. We all occasionally make appearances on DDO, Friday/Saturday's for raiding.

Last Friday we had 29 members on.

Average evening, peak hours, is probably about 20 people.

Same as the rest, we have lost some, gained some new, gained some that were on break and have returned. All in all, its about the same as its ever been, for us at least.

[Chiapet]

I am a very proud Officer of New Outriders. I can honestly say that we have not really lost any players in our guild. We got a couple that are not logging in as much as they used to, but no cancelled accounts that I know of. Most of our guild consists of players that are very casual. We got a couple of "hardcore" gamers, but for the most part we are still having too much fun making loot runs looking for rare drops. We as a guild do not like spending 100,000 plat or more for any given item, we find it a waste of money and we can have fun just making the loot runs ourselves. But, I have seen a server wide drop in population over the past month. We are waiting on MOD 9, but we have also come to the conclusion that it will get here when it gets here.

[Logicman69]

We had a small static group on Ghallanda. Just 4 of us running arround and having a blast. Now it's down to just 2 of us. The other two were bored of the lack of new content and have moved on. I now mainly PUG exclusivly.

I'm going to hang on till Mod 9 comes. I enjoy the game, it gets me away for the stress and reality of life for a couple hours a night.

[Grosbeak07]

Between the 2 guilds I'm in, I've seen 2 players say they are taking a break until Mod 9 (a couple of others are on break because they are moving), at the same time I've also seen 7 new players added between both guilds, most of whom have only been playing for about a month. Net gain of +5. I could be wrong here but this doesn't seem like a dying game to me.

I've also seen a lot of LFM's on Thelanis, even on weeknights. Mostly low and mid level stuff.. Kinda refreshing after seeing nothing but Shrouds for the last few months.

[Altarboy]

Pffft....We are on an IV drip...most are gone....like 90%....BG just left and I am prolly not far behind as most of the people I play with don't even log on anymore.

[DagazUlf]

Lost some - gained some, same as always, but we are now struggling to fill up raids with guildies of all the right levels/classes/mix on occasion.

That's not really the worrisome part for me so much as the just overall animosity that Turbine has garnered at this point. We've never experienced so much raw emotion against the game and the way things are being handled. Even with the fresh players, they pick up on the vibe and see this all heading nowhere fast.

Outside guild, it's really rough finding a group, let alone one of the stellar groups that used to be available seemingly 24/7.

Have we started the death spiral, or will all of this go away with mod9 and whatever announcements we're waiting on? That's the real question.

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