Sayda

I am Canadian, and have been playing games since I could type LOAD"*",8 into my dad's C64. The most influential game of my teenage years was Diablo 2, as my evil parents wouldn't buy me a console.

My non-MMO favourites: KOTOR, Prince of Persia: SOT, Morrowind, and more recently, DA:O (and 2), Oblivion, Mass Effect (yes, this is going to be a busy fall for me, with Skyrim, D3, and ME3 - and SWTOR).

I started online gaming with SWG, found an amazing guild and worked my way up the ranks. Eventually, our guild was popular enough that I started a "screening" guild. We'd take the recruits and keep them for a couple weeks, give them some guild activities, check out their personalities and then bump them to the main guild if they meshed with us. That was my first experience in leading a guild in an MMO.

In WoW, I must have been burnt out from leading people in SWG, because I don't think I became a guild officer until the first expansion. At some point I had guild leader, but eventually I gave it to my hubby instead so he could organize the raids. I just handled the DKP system. I also played AoC, where I was a co-officer for RP events/activities, but I kind of dropped out of that one quickly.

I will admit, I like being an influential member of a guild, at least a position of respect, if not authority (though I usually have authority). I've stuck with the same guys (and gals) for the last few years and we are a good team. I am hoping that most will follow me to SWTOR!