Why do people hesitate about merging Free Companies?

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having played MMO's for almost 14 years now, I will say this : I have never ever seen a merger go well. It always goes something like, small guild A wants to do something so they merge with medium guild B. They get glamoured by the fact that they are finally going to get to see endgame, and accept what seem like reasonable terms and conditions when looked at in their hopeful eyes. Reality hits fast and guild A finds that guild B only really needed a few of their people and most are just left out in the cold and those promises of "rotating people in so they can get a shot" quickly are forgotten. Guild A's officers are never really accepted into guild B's leadership clique and they are merely given the title until the few that B needed are thoroughly assimilated into their guild and forget they were ever in A. In time people from A get frustrated and go off to do their own thing.

Mergers just don't work.

[Aerostein]

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Mergers just don't work.

This, exactly. Guild mergers never work well, and always end in drama.

In this game, with how things work I'd prefer to join a guild with people I get along well with and trust. Would be easier to form a linkshell with other guilds when it comes to raiding if need be.

It's almost insulting to get asked by a larger guild if they want to merge imo. That's just how I see it, really.

[Seezur_Undies]

Would be easier to form a linkshell with other guilds when it comes to raiding if need be.
It's almost insulting to get asked by a larger guild if they want to merge imo. That's just how I see it, really.

Thanks what i was thinking, Why not form a LS. Each FC stays their own FC and has the shared LS. Problem solved

[Sealdorie]

Thanks what i was thinking, Why not form a LS. Each FC stays their own FC and has the shared LS. Problem solved

This is exactly what I did. I have my FC and I have a Linkshell made up of other small FCs for a larger social community. Some people want to have the perks of a FC with their real life friends and family (chest, actions, eventually housing). And while my own FC has more than just my friends and family, I respect those that feel this way.