Only one I remember isn’t quite drama. But it was weird.
I was in a guild where the leader was a russian guy. And one day he clearly had a bit of booger sugar so he was tweaking. Speaking quickly. The other thing he talked about is something I can’t mention here.
Was just sure something to listen to at 17
I had a Russian guild leader who was doing that sort of stuff. Was he a stripper by any chance??? When was this?
Way back in Wrath on Arathor. They mostly played a troll shaman healer.
Guild leader had a girlfriend who also played, circa Ulduar. Guild leader’s girlfriend moved in with him, but didn’t want to leave her roommate in the lurch so her roommate moved in with them until roommate’s lease for her new place took effect in a couple months. Fair enough. Guild leader let roommate make character on his account. One raid night, about an hour before raid, roommate’s character logs on to his account. Tells guild she’s pregnant. Guild leader and roommate were sharing more than just a WoW account. This is how guild leader’s girlfriend, who was on at the time, found out about it.
We didn’t raid that night.
Oh nah, mine was in shadowlands lol
I carried a blank charter in my backpack for about 10 years.
I fear that’s the closest thing to guild drama I have to share.
Vanilla Wow:
As a hardcore raider we were on Archimonde clearing MC. The Heavy Dark Iron ring dropped and I had enough DKP to claim it and I did due to being a Commander ranked PVPer resto druid. Oh boy were people livid that I claimed the ring over the tanks.
Old guild named Axis:
On Magtheradon back when it was current content I once hit the wrong button just as the raid was about to pull and I assisted the tank and moonfired the boss while everyone was sitting eating. I started laughing about my misteak and didnt realise my mic was active so everyone thought I was laughing about the wipe.
Last guild before the current one:
I was a rank who claimed to be a lifetime rank but due to them wanting to raid Mythic and I didnt I took my Evoker out of the guild to raid with my current one. When this expansion started I wanted to swap to my warrior for the expac but I knew my old guild didnt want me to play a tank so I took my warrior out and sadly the raiding officer kicked me out of the guild even though I had what was claimed to be a life time rank. I do miss my old guild but Im free to play what I want what spec I want so I am enjoying my current guild.
Uh… Haven’t had much of an issue with that in WoW. Not that there isn’t drama, but nothing that would destroy a guild.
I did have an issue in FF 14. I was in a guild with some friends. My ex was the guild leader and me and a few friends were the officers. One day I decided I wanted to start doing monthly raffles for fun. And at first it turned out great. We were a small guild at the time and didn’t have many people. Maybe 30 active players or so? well almost 20 of them showed up for the first one. It was fun and everyone had a good time. Well, one of the other officers took over and started running the events. So on the second raffle we started drawing names, and maybe after the first or second prize was handed out, the officer leading the event decided he wanted to start giving credit to everyone who donated for the event. Well, he left out one person, and this person in question completely went ape poopy and left the guild immediately and then caused the biggest drama I have ever experienced in all my years of gaming. She and her BF both started whispering people in our guild, spreading rumors about me and the other leaders in the guild. And her BF had a meltdown and started cussing at the officer who lead the event. I posted a DM in the server explaining why she wasn’t allowed back in the guild, and then at least close to a third of our guild left us. After that, I heard she was stalking a few of the officers off and on, but I personally never saw her after that.
The cherry on top? The woman who left the guild and and managed to convince all those who left, she joined someone else’s guild and worked her way up to being an officer and then turned around and robbed them blind. She went into their guild bank and took every last thing and sold it. All those who left us got to see the person she really was. A few of them even came back to our guild and apologized over it.
Moral of the story? Don’t trust people who act that way.
Been in fantastic guild since MoP , but the last guild told me come to raid or get kicked.
I am like “Nah I got to go to work”
/kicked 
The entire guild was filled with wannabe world first players lolz
Priorities!
Anyways not so much drama, but it was something that angered me. During Cata had a husband and wife pair who raided. One of their kids got sick and they were going to drop and take them to the hospital. All good. However, one more pull. One more pull. If you’re kid is that sick get off the game and take care of them!
being my guild is dead and only has at most 2-4 people on at one time there is none. i got a different guilds drama that i saw when i was pugging though…and it was glorious!!!
in SL i joined up for a H sod run. it was listed as needing discord so i see the link and sign up… and almost loose my eardrums…
2 grown men were having the biggest {female dog} fight i have ever seen. lets call them lead and last. Last was “complaining” that he wasnt able to get into the run. lead tells (angrily and the shouting) that caz last wasnt on the the hr+ before the run started he was kicked out of the line up. last wasnt happy with that was was screaming and calling host all types of names, most witch would get me banned if i said them here. lead was also sceaming and swaring at last with the same type of words
this keeps happening all the way from before i joined up, me heading to the raid (had to run though the maw), when we went in to the raid, all the way to first boss and when fighting first boss. lead was “complaining” so much to last that he screwed up and wiped the run (first boss then was a cakewalk, even on H). a few other people got mad and told them to shut up (they also did in the fight caz they could hear any callouts) but lead just ignored them and went back to fighting with last. others told lead to just ignore/mute last so we could do the run
they didnt stop complaining so people started leaving, both the puggers that were filling spots and guild people. that made lead go to 11 in rage swearing and shouting at everyone. finally lead and last stop for a few mins but it was to little to late as half the raif had left
i then say “its funny you want last to of been on a hr before, being i only woke up 10 mins before logging onto the game and getting in to this run”
i left laughing and hearing last start raging again at lead, who was also raging at everyone
funny thing is i got into a different run with a few of the people that left (we all loled about it) not to long after and got to sly with maybe 1 or 2 wipes though the full raid. people there were very happy and nice. think i even got the bow upgrade on that run.
so it just shows that the 30 year old try hards who are stoned/drunk online never get there way
Ive been in my Alliance and Horde guilds for seventeen and sixteen years, and they’re both surprisingly drama-free. The Alliance guild split in Cata after trying to become a raiding guild. Then there was that time a guy finally worked up the courage to publicly tell a Warlock how he felt about “her”. I almost felt bad for both of them but…
This story reminds me of my early gaming clan days.
We communicated with in game chats in the late 90s early 00s. Joined Forums and early TS and later Ventrilo. Old VOIP.
I’m a poor historian, but needless to say we bonded over original Rogue Spear/RVS and some CoD 1. BF1942. WC3. Diablo 2. UT2003.
Basically a weird mesh of Las Vegas, Canada, Sacramento and a guy we called Kiwi from New Zealand.
We played a small selection of games and consistently helped each other with setting up and optimizing systems. I was just an early grad school student in my 20s. They were grizzled veterans of an age long gone.
They’d wax about computers the size of entire rooms. Of writing and using FORTRAN. Running games on Linux for the challenge.
They were 60ish then. Probably 85 or gone now. OG gaming nerds. Anywho, I watched slowly as either finances, deaths of spouses, or illness took them one by one. (Outside a sister clan all being Gaga for one girl who eRP for that clan full of people that obviously were there for her)
Steam became a thing. We didn’t need CDs anymore. And no punkbuster. I finally got a real job. Couldn’t play much anymore.
Nevertheless, these friends slowly stopped logging in. 5 years 10 years. Almost 20 without logging in. My friends list is difficult to look at and I’m too sad to remove them.
Facebook messages with condolences from grieving relatives with the few I really trusted became a yearly occurrence. Even our FB group faded. A vibrant larger community down to just 20 people now. From thousands.
I made a large map with 6 unique worlds in the unreal editor and placed a dedication to all those I lost. May they rest and be kicking back beers and yelling “blue on blue!” or giving each other crap and things I can’t say on this esteemed forum.
To the old guys. The old army dudes. The fubars. The 82nds, the f25s, the tac guys, the IEs, the whiskey tango foxtrots and even the Laid Backs, the obsoletes, to Valk, and even to Korgan and Bubba who played on Bronzebeard in Vanilla. To switch. To Mr P. Hotsnot. And Gator. I will never forget those years. Staying up to 5 AM when classes started at 9 AM
It was worth it. And now, I play alone. It just isn’t the same. They’re all truly gone. Those of us left. We’re the old farts now.
My friend at work was 2 years old when I started playing his favorite flight simulator with my clan. And every year flies by. It might be 2025. But sometimes it feels like 1995 in my mind and Doom 2 Gotcha is running on my 286 and Netscape is asking me if I want to download images or leave them as Xs
I have been extremely fortunate, I suppose. The only real guild drama I have ever encountered was in Classic guilds. That’s hardly surprising given that most Classic guilds are put together by people who have played a long time, but not with one another.
My Vanilla (2005-2007) guild was an absolute masterpiece of a unicorn, apparently. We never had loot drama. We never had beefs or personal issues with each other. We raided all the way to Naxx together. We had more than 85 active members at any given point with two separate raid teams, and we enjoyed each other’s company. Our guild leader was an honest, stand-up guy who was fair and kept the guild rules without prejudice or exception, and he was funny as all get-out.
The guild I have played retail with consistently since BfA contains several people from that original Vanilla guild. We get along extremely well and play very well together. Most of the new people who join us fit in well, too, and just organically become part of the group. We have real friendships beyond the game and long-standing affection just in general. We have an outstanding time together in WoW (and in RL when we meet up).
I know that a lot of players are constantly besieged with difficulty finding a guild that isn’t full of vexation and upset, but that has not been my experience. The times that I have struggled with guild drama were all times when it was a group that hadn’t played together long and didn’t prioritize guild mates over loot drops. It’s really that simple most of the time.
A fight broke out between a high damaging dps and a near bottom dps over the top dps ignoring mechanics for uptime on Heroic Sire Denathrius.
The high dps basically yelled in the comms, I’m talking ANGRY yelling, that nearly half the raid was getting outdps’d by the tank (me) and if it wasn’t for the top seeds they’d still be wiping on LFR.
Feelings were hurt, people slowly bled out of the guild, it was messy.
Never heard someone yell that loudly on a mic, even in my Modern Warfare days.
lmao.
Prior to that early cata I was in a serious raiding guild quite popular in stormrage , they had sub guild, a horde guild and had many raid teams. Initially they helped me a lot got me geared provided bags, mats and even beat two heroic bosses that time mythic with them .
But the social aspect of that guild was horrible beyond the raid team you are basically a stranger to them even if you are in the same guild . In the raid group they have their own sub group of buddies where you feel like you are a 5th wheel .
Towards the end of cata I left it to start in a new guild in Mop which kicked me cause I had to work
Guild drama huh? I’ve got a tale I could share. Back in Wrath I was part of a guild that besides the fact they had a sister guild on alliance and their alliance guild name made the horde guild sound like monsters were alright people. My DK joined them and for a good few months I enjoyed raid nights with them, kicking the tar out of foes in Naxx working my way up to having my gear for Ulduar as Ulduar hadn’t arrived yet. Sadly…I never got to join them for that as one of the officers recruited his brat little brother to the guild and for some reason this brat felt it funny to ruin raid nights. He’d show up decked out in epics but before he joined the raid party he’d swap to blues, saw as much numerous times. Every time we’d get to a raid boss that dropped gear I needed the brat made sure to throw a wrench in the works and make us wipe, like instead of helping keep the zombie chow away from the dog he kited the chow to him going out of his way to steal aggro off those adds to make sure the boss never died. Raid leader however was told by the brat’s brother to “Be nice to him he’s just a kid” … it got to a point the raid leader put together raids without telling that officer or the kid… second the brat logs on and sees us all in dragonblight he flies to Naxx and sees us at the meeting stone and throws a tantrum demanding to join. His brother made a tank quit the group to let the kid in… I soon after got pissed and told the kid he can’t just demand his way into a raid he didn’t sign up for… he told his brother I was being mean. I said screw it I’ll go level my druid and left…guild master goes nuts on me as the two crud brothers started talking crap about me for quitting the raid group and said I was banned from raiding with them ever again…I basically said good I quit. A friend in the guild later told me the second I left that kid never ruined another raid night and bragged about having gotten me to leave by ruining raid nights intentionally. Kid felt he was a genius for being so awful to someone who never did or said anything to him prior
Ooh! I did think of one. This happened at the end of BfA, and it was the worst drama I’ve personally experienced in the game.
We had a new guy in who played on a rogue, and he frequently topped the damage meter in short bursts, but usually by tunneling like crazy, ignoring any and all mechanics. He died ALL the time - it was constant, and having healed him a few times, myself, he was super bad–I mean SUPER BAD–about taking 1-shot mechanics to the face. Because he frequently sailed to the top of the meter while doing this, however, he believed he was a very good player. He made it clear on a regular basis that he felt like he was slumming it with us.
He was also very foul-tempered, which is not a thing we see a lot of in our guild. He would frequently blame healers or the tank for his failures, but it was mild enough that we mostly ignored it. He was new, so we thought we’d let him take some time and get to know us.
He pugged a lot of M+ and didn’t realize that he was being carried a lot by his pugs. It can take a while for bad DPS players to realize that they’re bad if they’re in pug keys that didn’t get burned b/c despite the common refrain we see here in GD, most pug groups don’t take the time to fuss at people in party chat unless they’re preventing success in the dungeon.
Anyway, one day, after a vexing Shrine of the Storm run, this guy went after our BM monk who’d tanked it. He said some vicious things over guild comms, and the tank had finally had enough of this guy and started acquainting him with his faults in frank terms.
Our guild leader logged into discord right in the middle of all this, and the new guy started saying he should gkick the monk for being a bad player. He began positively screeching in an adolescent tantrum of epic proportion. This was not a kid. This was a full-grown adult, and he dropped all pretense of civility and went ballistic.
Guild leader gkicked him without saying a word, and then greeted everyone as if nothing had happened. To this day I tell him that I have never found him more attractive than he was in that moment.
Yep.
I don’t get involved in guild drama. Bad for the sanity.
dont you holy moose me.