[Gaeriel]

Oddly, my guild is going through almost the same thing right now.

My guild, Alliance-Forsaken Gods of Azuremyst, had slowly started becoming more and more hardcore. I've been in this guild for about a year and a half, and I remember back when the GM didn't even have a 70. However, in the last 4 months we've gone through a failed merge and mass recruiting, and all of a sudden our fearless leader pops on after about a week off and announces that we are no longer a raiding guild.

"Xxxxxxxxx has left the guild" flooded my chat.

point in case, our regular player's loyalty (some who've been in the guild for nearly a year) only went as far as the next scheduled 10-25 man and the next drop.

Good news though, me and the 5-6 other casual players/good friends are now in one of the most epic 7 account guilds in game :P