72 hour countdown was on for the update , and the game was not the same as it was 10 hours ago. Major reshuffling of guild members took place as members abandoned the smaller guilds in droves.
The common people had judged that the future was with the guilds who would rule the cities . There was no point in staying with small adventurer groups.
Those with ambition all chose first or second rate guilds that they felt had a fair chance of securing a town or a village.
The entire guild dynamics changed over a span of few short hours. People betrayed their old guilds , friendships were broken , items were stolen from the warehouses , as elders and people with access to the warehouse defected with the items.
Hundreds of thousands of players jumped ship in Hazelgroove kingdom alone.