After a number of requests for a more organised and easily at-a-glance understanding of who is who inside the PCU/ACU and some distinctions to consider we have updated their current membership and made it more presentable.
The major changes here are the apparent collapse of Perroy’s zeitgeist over his creation. Rumours of a “rival PCU” being formed are not entirely without merit when looking at the raw data. Three guilds have removed Perroy as their leader, (five if you consider the collapse of the Gnome and Dwarven PCU communities) breaking out of his official control and continuing general trend of decentralization within the PCU/ACU.
Another interesting trend we saw is many guilds are bled dry in membership. While some such as Red Venturers (never the most particularly vocal or virulent guild) have had modest gains, others have lost a precipitous number.
Despite having 49 members between them, the League of Modimus and Assemblage of Uld merger, the Forgecog Fellowship can barely scrape around 15 members.
Other notable declines are as follow: Chosen of Draenor (32, down from 51) Cleft of Shadow (28, down from 43) Coppersail Corsairs (49, down from 63) The Bilgewater Cartei (58, down from 71)
The highly anticipated “Voidfury” project has also seemingly stalled at a mere 17 members at posting, as has the “PCU but not PCU” guild, Blood Edict of Vandellor, at merely 13 members.
It appears that the actual number of PCU/ACU members being active has rapidly declined to a handful spread thinly across numerous shell guilds, vainly trying to keep their forum threads bumped up to look as if they are busy. At the same time their new strategy of “PCU Candidacy” as we shall call it, seems to be failing spectacularly due in part to the fact the only people who post on PCU guild threads... are PCU guild members.
Expect more mergers, more decentralisation and meeker presences in game and out of game from the PCU/ACU as their member base retracts and evaporates in the weeks and months to come.
It is an exciting time here at CoAD, which will be the next domino to fall as we document the ongoing fumbling fading of the PCU? Stay tuned for more sports fans.