

The Pros & Cons Of Being A Clan Leader
02.October.2014
Anyone who has ever been in a guild or clan can tell you how much fun it is to meet people like you and have fun online, but have you ever considered what it is like to be the leader? As someone who ran a guild for eight months, I know first-hand it is not as easy as it seems, which is what my fellow guild leader and I thought when we made the guild. There were good times, but more often than not it became a chore, which killed the game for us and ended up with the guild dying out. Here’s a list of the main pros and cons of being a clan leader as it stands in most games.
An upside to being a clan leader is how fun it is. You can still have as much fun as possible with your members, even if you are the person with all the power to kick them out if they mess up. If you’re a fun person, the clan you’ve made and its’ members tend to be as fun as you. You can still do guild stuff whilst doing events with your people as often as you get online, and that’s where most of the fun with gaming online comes from. The downside to this is how much guild work you have to do. If in the game, you have to maintain your clan’s level, or you have to maintain some guild funds or objects, it gets hard and it gets quite repetitive when you go online. Towards the end of my guild leader career I was doing so many quests just for the guild that I just stopped doing my own quests. If you don’t have the time to be online all day, and you’re in a casual guild but stuff needs to be maintained more often than not you’re going to be left doing everything by yourself.
Like I’ve already said, as a clan leader you’re in charge. You can kick people, invite people, start clan events, start wars against other clans and a whole list more of the fun parts about being in charge of your own clan. But, there’s always going to be the negative parts to it as well. If a clan member has a grudge against a member of another clan, it could result in a long dispute between the two clans just because two members couldn’t kiss and make up. If there’s any ‘bullying’ type issues in guild, you’ve got to listen to both sides of the story and decide whether or not to lose a clan member. If it’s a clan you’ve not bonded with, it’s easy to leave, but if it’s a clan you’ve personally built up, these decisions get harder to make.
The events of a clan pretty much make it in games, so if you pick the cool events you can have a great time with people inside your guild. You can go all hardcore for PvP but act all chilled when it comes to doing events to help the lower levels in your clan to help them level their characters. But, there’s always those few rush levellers or too relaxed players who have the ‘it’s your job to help me, I don’t have to help you’ attitude that just infiltrate the clan to ask for help to then leave once you’ve done their bidding. These people are the burden of a clan leader, purely because you don’t want guild members to see you as unhelpful but you also don’t want them to walk over you like you’ve got nothing better to do than do every little thing they want you to do during your playing time. They’ll complain, they’ll bitch and they’ll moan until they’re red in their virtual faces, just because you’re too busy to help them level up at an impossibly stupid rate. More often than not, these level-bashers and overly-casual players are what make it awful to be a clan leader. They want your help, no matter what, but they won’t do anything for the clan unless it benefits them in some way.
If you want to be a clan leader, remember that it’s not all just fun and games. Sometimes, there is hard work and hard decisions only you can do.
~ Kirky