House Forsaken Scandal Revisited

House Forsaken Scandal Revisited
Filed under: General — Charles Rector @ 4:01am
For almost 3 years, I was a member of House Forsaken which had been a
major online gaming clan. From the classic archive of the 
MPOG News-Log , here’s a pair of responses to forum private messages
that
lays out what happened to bring about HF’s decline and fall as an
effective force:

PM #1 :

Your last msg included the following sentence:

“You running Clan Forsaken than? Broswer game version of the guild or
still running in SB? We have about 30 or so of us in SWG if ya want to
hook with us?”

I do not have anything to do with Clan Forsaken other than that for some
weird reason or another, they haven’t taken me off the
@clan-forsaken.com email forwarding address. Must be another aspect of
the leadership’s laziness or something. Nor, do I play SB, SWG or for
that matter any Massively Multiplayer Online Game. All the games that I
play in are Browser-Based Games. As for HF, the only game where they
have a real playing group is in SB and though there is a HF group in
SWG, my understanding is that its declining due to both defections and
dissatisfaction with the game.

PM #2 :

Following is a PM that I recently sent a guy at another gaming site:

Laminad’s doing fine in real life, but between college and work, he has
little time for gaming. His time in HF is now spent on a few posts or so
on the forum every week.

As for House Forsaken itself, it has mostly disintegrated. When I joined
it back in October, 2000, it was a powerhouse outfit in several
different games. Now, outside of Shadowbane, it has basically become not
much more than a glorified forum clan. Shadowbane is the only game where
its had any real success recruiting and in being able to keep up a
decent gaming group during the past 6 months or so.

The basic reason for this decline and fall is that the founder-leader of
HF, UsuRpeR, has little time anymore for either the clan or gaming.
However, he wants to remain in charge of everything. So, what’s he’s
done is to appoint someone to handle the day to day affairs while
UsuRpeR makes the big decisions. The first of these leaders was Laminad
who did a fine job and who kept the clan running smoothly.

However, Laminad got to his present situation where he didn’t have the
time anymore and so he was replaced by a succession of persons who were
either unfit for the task or who were undercut by UsuRpeR who in turn
has had an increasing tendency to interfere in matters where he really
doesn’t know what’s going on.

I myself was forced out of HF in April of this year. What happened was
that 2 long-time HF members were caught in wholesale cheating and worse
in TDZK where I was the HF leader. Under HF rules and standards,
cheating is something that is not to be tolerated and in the past, if
you got caught cheating, you were almost always expelled from the clan.
Only problem was that the rule breakers were big friends of the guy that
was in charge of day to day operations. On top of that, the 2 cheaters
were pals of UsuRpeR and they got a hold of him and told him that they
were being persecuted. UsuRpeR, without even trying to get my side of
the story, or that of the other HF members in TDZK, basically absolved
them of their crimes and instead trashed me in the HF Forums, made the
weirdo accusation that I was attempting a “coup” against his leadership,
and demanded that I either apologize to the miscreants or get expelled.

Faced with that ultimatum, I resigned from HF as did most of the other
HF members in TDZK. The Browser-Based Games Realm quickly went from
being the most active gaming group in HF to being a forum clan. On top
of that, the mess caused a lot of other HF members to decide that they
didn’t want to be a part of a poorly run clan that sanctioned
disgraceful behavior in the games as long as you’re big friends of the
top dog who’s reall not in touch anymore, and so over the past 5-6
months, a lot of folks have drifted away from the clan while but little
recruiting has gone on to make up for the losses.

5 Comments »
Hyp says hi ;)

Comment by hyp — December 2, 2004 @ 4:31pm

Crector, I’d like to hear your side of the story, can you send me the
names of everyone involved? I’d like to look into this matter. Thanks.

Comment by Rheem Octuris — December 2, 2004 @ 5:40pm

I like pie.

Comment by Mr. Scary — December 2, 2004 @ 6:21pm

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Comment by Hero — December 2, 2004 @ 9:32pm

*cough* 80 members in WOW *cough*

Comment by Ghost — December 2, 2004 @ 11:04pm