Social Guilds

[rotiprata]

The meaning of social guild?

To describe it briefly, it would be IRC with characters you can control.

[Aaronock]

Hm, well...for some a social guild is a way to network also beyond the game.  For example, let us say someone has made a game of their own.  Maybe they want to find other developers, or other gamers like themselves?  Is it not unreasonable then to turn to free MMO's or pservers to find potential people? 

As I said, I owned a small social guild before, it was nice to meet new people while I farmed away or whatever on the characters I had in the guild.  Others also got to enjoy the relaxed environment, and if they changed their minds and did want to WoE, well I was usually as fair as I could be finding them a guild to turn to.  Usually they even kept an alt in the guild even.  It was nice to have a way to talk to others from other guilds without it feeling bogged down by other guild rivalries at the time. 

[Ayu]

All of this talk is kinda moot until you define what a social guild is first, as everyone is approaching this differently.

"Guilds that are purely there" isn't exactly a precise definition.

[Naiv]

The reason for a social guild in many cases are just the same as for a "hardcore" guild. Just becouse a social guild might not have WoE or PvP as their main focus dosn't mean they just sit there all day and chat, the game has more purposes then that to offer.

For me a social guild, or a casual guild is to prefer since i never really cared for PvP in any of the games that I played, it's a good way to find people that you enjoy playing together with.

[Rapist]

Social guild people are friendly...
and love to chat with them
Its always better to talk with them  rather than aggresive people (who do pvp and woe),who just end up abusing other at the End.

[Final]

In my RO experience I've been apart of many social guilds.  The general population of social guilds are just there so that you can sit and have a good time without the hassle of always WoEing or PvPing or what not.  A few guilds that I was apart of just sat around chatting all week or helping each other out level or collect but then they would WoE on the weekend.  I guess a social guild would be a group of people only looking to have fun whether it be any of the following; Pvp, WoE, Collecting, Leveling, Chatting, etc etc etc.  If you look at hard core WoE guilds, they aspire to dominate the server.  So you'll often see them leveling a lot and collecting rare equipment to battle.  I mean, some of those guilds do sit and relax a lot to but the majority is preparing.  Social guilds are a relaxing place where you aren't obligated to do a single thing (Which may I say, a lot of people like).  I say, fun ^_^

[Woon]

I've many times prefer being in a social guild than a hard core WOE or PVP guild. It's way more fun, and when needed they love to help out. I dunno, just seems like there is more to RO than the actual game, sometimes it is way more fun to talk to people than to actually go hunt items or grind.

[Kisa]

it's more fun to talk with ppls while lvling as lvling alone...

[Yuriohs]

Maybe...
I came back to learn how to play my class better, and to get back into WoE/PvP. I don't think being in a social guild will help me at all become that.

And, now all hardcore WoE guilds are aggressive, or people that you can't sit down and talk to.
Thats a stereoype for WoE/PvP Guilds, visa versa, with the social guilds stereotype being people who sit around talking all day like its msn.

I guess it all depends on what your playing RO for. I still have the same "fun" competing against others playing my class to the fullest, timing buffs exactly, preventing asura kills, Hide Dodging, Gear Swapping all that to me, and alot of people that WoE is "fun" it isn't all just work, it just takes work to get to that point. We enjoy WoEing and pvping, yea sometimes the outcome is bad, but we look back on some of the moments that happened and lol you know?

And I guess "Social Guilds" have this as well, probally a convo that made you laugh so bad you fell out of you chair.

But like Ayu said, we all have our own definitions of what exactly a guild is. We have different expectations of what that guild is supposed to be.

So really, you can't define a guild "Social" until you define what Social is in games ofc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_guild

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Beats me

If I wanted to make friends in MMO populated in ninety percent by weeaboo 14-year-olds I'd use the friend system.

Joining a "social guild" looks more like a statement to me than anything else("Look, I spit at all you people wearing dress hats just because some minor advantage").