author: Anna Dymarczyk
MMO Player Was Kicked out of a Guild Because He Had to Go to Work Instead of Playing the Next Day
MinMaxing for some people is the only right way to play MMOs. For many players, reconciling this style with real life is impossible.
Throne and Liberty was supposed to become a new MMO hit for players who wanted to re-experience the atmosphere of a new fantasy world with interesting mechanics and challenging bosses in dungeons and raids. The game offered many mysteries to uncover and finding out what might prove useful during adventures, and what might not. However, some players from the beginning opted for a faster and more endgame-focused playstyle. Not everyone can keep up with such a pace.
One player was kicked out of the guild because he had to go to work.
A review of Throne and Liberty appeared on Steam, in which a player described a strange situation - as he wrote, he was kicked out of a guild because, on the second day of early access, he had to go to work. His story quickly spread across Reddit. It turned out that he was not the only one. User EmzyisErock revealed that this happened to him too, but in his case, it was a hurricane hitting his city and a fire at a chlorine factory. It seems that goal-focused players are not particularly interested in "excuses".
Throne and Liberty introduced a guild size limit (70 people), which led to many similar situations like the two above. In a game where every place in the community is valuable, players who focus on being the best and reaching the endgame as quickly as possible, want to aim for the highest optimization of gameplay.
Is Throne and Liberty for everyone?
The recent updates have brought a lot more solo content to Throne and Liberty, but the core gameplay is still PvP and guild content. This means that the most ambitious players focus on these activities. At the same time, many people are tired of what playing MMO games looks like today.
"I miss the days when you could just join a guild and experience the game without any obligations/criteria. Now you first need to submit an application, and then you encounter requirements regarding the level, and goal, you need to have Discord, appropriate activity, and even spend a specific game currency on the guild. It got out of control,"
claims user enPlateau.
Not everyone agreed with him - some argued that it was enough to simply find a guild that wouldn't do this, because many players want to seriously approach new challenges in MMOs. However, the discussion still focused on certain issues, such as lack of communication within the guild and the very easy expulsion of its members. Throne and Liberty suffers from the same disease as most MMORPGs.