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INTRODUCTION


The Syndicate® is the most successful Virtual Community in the history of Online
Gaming. With its initial roots and founding back to 1992 in AOL's Neverwinter
Nights, those initial years were a mission of defining what a guild should be
and what a long term success path could look like. Few, if anyone, knew where
gaming and guilds might lead to and there was more bluster and bravado than
substance and vision in those earliest of days. The current name, values and
mission were adopted and established in early 1996.

We specialize in Gaming hardware feedback, Game & System Testing, Strategy Guide
Writing, Consulting On Systems Design and Round Table Feedback. We are a very
well organized, professional, mature organization that has been involved with
MMO projects for many years. The quality of our work and our ability to deliver
on time and maintain the secrecy of the projects we are currently working on is
one of our hallmarks.

In addition to Game Development focus, we have a strong focus on growing our
community, building friendships and in making the online gaming community better
for all gamers. We regularly provide free feedback and testing to our developer
friends to help create better "next gen" gaming content. Our engagements range
from casual to very formalized and are a way for us to provide free support for
game developers that leverages our passion for gaming and years of experience to
make games better for all players. We have virtually no turnover so we maintain
a high degree of institutional knowledge that we can roll forward from project
to project.

By the time most MMORPGs launch, The Syndicate has been playing them for months
(and in some cases a year or more) as part of one of our engagements. We usually
maintain an "outpost" within those games of current Syndicate members while the
bulk of the guild moves onto our next major project. We do not add new members
for games we only maintain an outpost in. We have actively played just about
every game including, but not limited to: EQ & EQ2, SOTA, Warhammer, Crowfall,
Conan, LOTRO, DCUO, Rift, SWTOR, Aion, DDO, Wizard 101, Runescape, DAOC, Eve
Online, Shadowbane, Tabula Rasa, Planetside and PoTBS just to name a few.
Syndicate outposts cover the landscape of MMORPGs. We only actively recruit new
members for our presences in three major MMOs which are the worlds of Ultima
Online, World of Warcraft and New World. We downsized our WoW presence going
from over 500 active members (with 2,000+ characters) to around 200 active
members in 2011. Our UO presence is currently around 200 active members. Our New
World presence is also around 200 active members. There are ~100 members
participating in our D&D campaigns. There are around 500 active members
participating in our consulting, testing and guide writing teams. You can get
more details in our Syndicate Extended Game Support (S.E.G.S.) section of this
site which are games that we actively play but from which we do not recruit new
members.

The Syndicate is always looking at future "major game" expansion opportunities.
Currently on our horizon are the following games that we are excited about:
Star Citizen
Ashes of Creation


The Syndicate isn't a guild, we are the industry leaders in gaming excellence
and the most successful virtual community in the history of online gaming. We
are not a MMO entity. We are a community of people who have a shared hobby of
playing games. We use that shared hobby as a way to grow and build friendships
that last decades. And we can say "decades" because we have been around far long
than anyone else... with almost no turnover... with no internal drama... and
operating as a single, unified, team of friends.

There is far more to share about The Syndicate and what we stand for. Come in
and explore our site. Read about our rich history, browse articles written about
us, check out our Charter and FAQ to learn what makes us tick, read about the
games we are a part of and much more. Step inside, for The Legend of The
Syndicate awaits..






NEWS

Leading The World for 28 Years...
Feb 2024


It has become almost an expectation that every year we will have a new
anniversary and certainly 2024 is no exception. Reaching the 28th anniversary
milestone is another huge achievement for The Syndicate. We know over
125,000,000 other gaming communities have risen and fallen, where billions of
members tried and failed to create what The Syndicate has succeeded in building.
We believe the number to actually be much higher at over 270,000,000 gaming
guilds. Regardless, players tend to use guilds as toons to achieve a goal within
a game, but those founding the guilds tend to believe theirs is 'the' idea...
'the' community... 'the secret sauce'... that will last for years to come and
bring them some sort of legendary status. Very few people create a guild or a
community and think "I am making this to fail in a few months". But the reality
is, almost every one of them will fail between 6 months and 2 years. Almost no
one ever reaches 10 years.. much less 28 years. A guild that was founded in
2024, that wanted to reach the same level of achievement, would need until 2052
to equal what The Syndicate has achieved in longevity, so far. That wouldn't
even begin to layer on the game developer engagements, computer hardware
manufacturer teams we are on, charitable contributions we have made and so much
more. Our 28th anniversary is very special to us and an achievement very few
players will experience. We do not blast it around the internet but we are very
proud of reaching that milestone with the hope of many more in the future.



SyndCon 2023
August 2023


The 22nd annual SyndCon event took place in Hamburg, Germany in August of 2023.
Members from all over the US and the world attended with our local German
members helping to plan and coordinate the whole event. This was only the 2nd
time we had done SyndCon outside the US and the first time that we visited
Germany. It was an epic experience.


Another Guinness World Record...
Feb 2023


The Syndicate set the Guinness World Record for the "oldest, continuously
operating online gaming guild" many years ago. We have updated that record over
the years with many different game developers and hardware manufacturers acting
as expert witnesses to our continued longevity. While we could technically claim
all the way back to 1992 (prior to our name change to The Syndicate in 1996) we
have focused (so far) on that aspect of our record setting longevity. The
Syndicate was all in on diversity before that was a discussion in the public
realm. We understood the value of bringing together people from all walks of
life; from all over the world; from all shapes and sizes of backgrounds and life
experiences. Members still have to earn their spot. They still need to be
contributing members of the community. In embracing diverse schools of thoughts,
earning ones position in the community and in the value of getting out of the
experience what you put into it, we created a very stable community of like
minded individuals where drama and in-fighting are virtually non-existant and
where the power of all of our experiences helps to guide our path forward.
Congrats Syndicate members, on your latest in a long string of world-first
achievements.









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