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The Future of DV!

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Hello everyone!

Since OpenCommunity went into downtime in November, there hasn't been a lot of word regarding what exactly will be happening with DV. Now it's time to post an update, and plot the future for DV!

I'll be honest and say that this decision did not come easily. There was a lot of back and forth, talking with the rest of the OC staff, taking advice wherever I could find it, and I changed my mind on this subject at least a couple times before making the final decision. ?

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Recent Happenings

As most of you already know, OpenCommunity is no longer a GW2 event provider, outside of a couple charity events per year. We made this decision because being seen as a service provider of that sort proved unsustainable, and eventually ended up draining all of our interest in GW2, as it became a place of work, rather than a place of leisure.

It also made actually playing or just hanging out with people difficult, as any socialisation would turn into a member-leader type engagement, so it became a matter of all work, no play.

However, despite wishing to move on from OC-hosted events, we knew that there were some commanders and members who still wanted to do events, so we decided to assist with the founding of a new group focused on doing events!

For more details on this decision, you can read the original announcement.

 

Changing Times

Since OC is no longer doing regular events, and we're shifting away from hosting guilds in the same way we have up to now, the purpose of the integrated OC guilds came into question. We'd like to have a more relaxed community of friends, and that's what we're aiming for with the future of OC. Doing guild missions 3 times per week, a rigorous activity system, etc. are not things that are needed in a more casual and relaxed guild, and in fact, in the past have stood in the way of creating such an atmosphere.

  • Activity System Inactive

DV's activity system will no longer be in use. Since we didn't do a raffle in November or October, some of the leftover raffle prizes will be raffled off to those who were active in those months. Think of it as a late Wintersday present ? The rest can be used as prizes for charity events, such as the upcoming Toga party. This also renders the "Away" rank obsolete. 

  • No More Spam Mails

We will also no longer be sending the newsletters on a monthly basis. Instead, they'll only be sent for important events and announcements, cutting the number of mails sent per year a little bit. Mailboxes rejoice!

  • Abort Mission

Guild missions will no longer be happening 3 times a week, and for now, have just been unscheduled. If people still want to do guild missions, if any of our coordinators wishes to continue doing guild missions on a regular basis, we can try to arrange a time, but for now, missions have been suspended.

  • Recruitment Suspended

For the time being, recruitment of new members has been suspended, as we move forward with reshaping DV into a smaller family guild.

 

What does the future hold?

In the future, rather than focused on every day events, we're hoping DV will remain a guild of friends, who can feel comfortable casually chatting, hanging out, and playing together, even outside of GW2, rather than a group of strangers doing events while never getting to know each other.

Personally, I'm still taking a little bit of a break from actively playing GW2, but if anyone has any ideas, suggestions, or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me ^^ If you can't catch me in-game, you can always send me a message on the website! And just because we don't have scheduled events, doesn't mean we can't do something fun from time to time.

Also, speaking of the future, we may not be doing daily events anymore, but we've still got some big stuff coming up! We have the Toga Party for Multiple Sclerosis event coming up on May 11! Stay tuned for an announcement as we'll start looking for volunteers soon!

For more information on the future of OC, check out the most recent announcements, and don't forget about the Community Assembly on Saturday, March 23rd!

 

A more serious note

Some people may wonder why I made this decision as opposed to also transferring DV over or disbanding it.

I did consider all three options, because I know there are many DV members who only joined for the regular events, but I also know there are members in DV who joined it specifically because of the positive environment and who stay in the guild because they enjoy an environment where they feel more secure.

Those people are the reason we founded OpenCommunity in the first place. If you ever felt like DV was a shelter from the storm of toxicity in the outside world, if you ever needed a space where you know the concern over your comfort wouldn't just be waved away with a "deal with it", if you ever wanted to share a cool build you came up with and not be told "that's not meta tho", or if you ever wanted to join a group and have your team trust your ability rather than tell you to link all sorts of kill proof, if you want a place where casual racism, homophobia, and transphobia will not be tolerated, then you're one of the reasons I wanted to make OC in the first place, and the future I want for DV.

I'm inviting everyone who's interested in staying in a smaller guild more in line with OpenCommunity's ideals to stick around, and join us in a new era!

Also, consider participating in any of the discussions here on the website ^^ Join the drawing classes in the Creators' Corner, or start your own discussion! ?

 

Still want to join regular events?

For those interested in continuing to join regularly scheduled events - we have transferred ownership of [PvE] to its former commanders, and it is now the flagship guild of the autonomous group of commanders who continue to do events on the OC TS, so anyone who wishes to continue joining events can join them.

Anyone interested in joining the guild, contact @ktommo10 (Kalinunil.4958) or @Atreyu (Atreyu.4920) for an invite into [PvE]

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I don't really play GW2 anymore and I am not sure if I ever will again play it as much as I used to, so I am currently a rather 'inactive' DV member, but I am really glad about this decision ^^ For me, DV was always like a core of OC, a guild that represented its ideals and felt 'safe', and I am happy to hear it will once again move in that direction rather than the event spamming platform it has became lately ?

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I'm not logging into gw2 regularly atm but this sounds really good. Looking forward to the future of DV and oc ?

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like the other replies I'm also on a long term break from GW2, but the inkling to come back is there, and DV is definitely a home for me when I'm back. Being part of DV was my route into the OC events and all the fun I had as a commander. Looking forward to hanging out sometime soon!

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Hello @Lelling

I noticed the recruitment is closed. I wish to ask tho what about people in my situation?

My situation:

i joined DV in August 2016 and after some very nice times i quit GW2 and hence quit all the guilds i was in. Ofc i loved DV most not just because of events but because of teamspeak chat ?

When i returned to GW2 in 2018 november i saw that OC is in downtime so i reapplied to join my favorite guild DV but the recruitment is now closed.

 

Do you think after everything is reorganized i can rejoin the guild? Honestly i had most fun in GW when i was in DV and id like to rejoin now that im playing again.

 

Lemme know if its possible to rejoin or if recruitment is fully closed for everyone not in DV atm.

 

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30 minutes ago, Serpentes said:

Hello @Lelling

I noticed the recruitment is closed. I wish to ask tho what about people in my situation?

My situation:

i joined DV in August 2016 and after some very nice times i quit GW2 and hence quit all the guilds i was in. Ofc i loved DV most not just because of events but because of teamspeak chat ?

When i returned to GW2 in 2018 november i saw that OC is in downtime so i reapplied to join my favorite guild DV but the recruitment is now closed.

 

Do you think after everything is reorganized i can rejoin the guild? Honestly i had most fun in GW when i was in DV and id like to rejoin now that im playing again.

 

Lemme know if its possible to rejoin or if recruitment is fully closed for everyone not in DV atm.

 

Hey ^^

This is a really good question. While public / open recruitment is closed, we'll still be responding to personal invite requests.

I sent you an invite ? 

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maybe put this in the DV MotD and remove the schedule.

for Myself i had a little break too and wondered what happend the letter came a bit later.

So it might be nice to include this in the welcom message.

 

Greetz & happy life.

 

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2 hours ago, BIG bad Bull said:

maybe put this in the DV MotD and remove the schedule.

for Myself i had a little break too and wondered what happend the letter came a bit later.

So it might be nice to include this in the welcom message.

 

Greetz & happy life.

 

Already done. The event schedule was already removed a while ago, but guild mission times remained since some coordinators said they'd continue to do them. I put the rest of this information in the MOTD this morning, before the newsletters were dispatched ? 

The downtime announcement was sent out to all members in November as well, (I checked and according to our logs, you also received this letter,) with further updates in December and February. 

All OC newsletters are also stored in the Newsletter archives, in case you ever miss them.

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