It's a shame when a guild dies.

Guilds are born out of hope, out of ambition. The desire to have a community, the desire to foster a social environment. Whether it's for friends, to achieve success in raiding or just to have somewhere to mess around in. Guilds are and have always been homes.It's alarming when guilds disband, especially at the rate I have seen lately. Guilds that have been around for years and years, crumbling, one by one.And it can be blamed on a whole number of things. People getting bored. People getting old. People fed up with Blizzard. People deciding to walk alone or people deciding they are better than the rest. Friendships crumbles. Friends become foes. Foes become friends. It's a bizarre situation. If you have ever been in a guild that you truly felt like was a home. When that guild dies. When it ends. It feels like a relationship has crumbled around you. Your nice cosy reliable place is suddenly thrust out into the many thousands of other players just floating along on WoW.And yes, you can rebuild. You can recruit. You can start fresh. But the long daunting journey to reach the nirvana which was your old guild, that's not a fun journey to start. And no matter what you will do, no guild will quite feel like that cosy home you could rely on.They say that you can keep in touch. It's never the same. Yes you can stay in touch, but no, it just isn't the same. Your guild are usually your immediate go-to WoW family. They are the ones that you group up with, talk to at all hours of the day, spend countless hours wiping and laughing with.Being in a truly great guild is a magical thing, that not many other games are quite able to capture.But here we are. Patch 9.1 and guilds are falling all over the place. People are bored, they are angry and it's just having a constant knock-on effect.Now I know not everyone has had the luxury of being in the kind of guild I have described. They are not easy to find. You can spend months, maybe even years searching for that place to call home. They do exist, you just have to look hard enough.So the point is, it's a shame when a guild dies. When all of your friends scatter, whether they move server, quit the game, join another guild. It's hard to capture those feelings again. And I know there are a lot of you guys out there, just floating between guilds, trying to recapture those memories, the laughs and good times you had with your guilds. But it aint coming back. No matter how hard you try.