Guild firsts and guild achievements.

They’re awesome when guilds can tick them off a list of “To Do’s” (perhaps located on their website), and then pat themselves collectively on the back and say, “Hey guys, we achieved that… well done, everyone…”

But they’re less awesome when forums fill up with constant spam posts from guilds, absolutely desperate to claim things in a way that makes me worry whether I’ve selected the server with the most under-15s by mistake.

Worse still, a lot of these so-called firsts are just that: so-called. A guild will finish a particular quest series or raid or something and if they haven’t heard of anyone else doing it, they’ll go and claim it for themselves.

What you find, however, is there are often other guilds on the same server, which have already done that same thing, but either don’t use the game’s forums or, if they do, just don’t care about promoting their firsts.

Which means a lot of so-called firsts aren’t even “firsts” at all.

How will Beskar approach this topic when it comes to TOR? Simple. We aren’t an achievement-driven guild. By which I mean, we will have our achievements, without doubt, but we won’t be driven to pulling all-nighters for the first week of TOR’s release so we can breathlessly announce to a forum community (which, frankly, won’t care less), that we did, “xyz” first.

I mean, who cares about that stuff once they get beyond about 15 years of age, anyway?