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Setting Up a WoW Guild's Web Hosting Site2009-08-31For both guild leaders and members, a good guild hosting website can go a long way towards maintaining a successful World of Warcraft guild.
Building a successful guild requires much more than bribing ten WoW players with WoW gold to get a charter completely signed. Setting up a guild website is vital to the longevity of any World of Warcraft guild, especially one that does any sort of raiding. In particular, a website can help the leaders do the bookkeeping for loot as well as help members communicate with each other in a more open accessible way than with in-game guild chat.Choosing a Guild Web Hosting Company
The choice of a good guild website means less work for the guild leadership. The cost of a guild website is usually free or very low. Some such as wowstead, Guild Launch, GuildOMatic, and Guild Portal are very popular with World of Warcraft guilds. However, there are many choices when it comes ...
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Last time we looked at Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, it was in a somewhat lamentable state of affairs. Just after its launch nine months ago, the game was a mess of bugs, dropped features, broken quests, regular crashes and system requirements no mortal man could hope to achieve. It was, frankly, a disaster.
And yet, we couldn't help but note that in spite of its disastrous implementation, Vanguard was full of good, ambitious ideas. We liked the concepts underlying such things as the diplomacy system, which allows you to treat conversations with NPCs as a kind of card game, and the excellent crafting system. We liked the idea that we could build our own houses or even boats; we liked the combat system, whose chained attacks and clever manipulation of resistances made most other MMOG combat look staid and boring.
The problem, back in February, is that these concepts were like rough-hewn gemstones being carried along in a river of human excrement. Vanguard was so utterly, painfully broken, both technically and in some key design ways, that reaching for its finer momen...