The Syndicate Turns 28 Years Old (2024)
Another year... another milestone achievement that no one else has accomplished in the history of online gaming. We know over 124,000,000 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 260,000,000 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. Few people found a guild 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.
What is truly special about The Syndicate is its diversity in every sense of the world. We have massive diversity in where folks live... what socio-economic status they have... what education they have... their gender.. their ethnicity.. their religion.. their politics.. their age... and so much more. Yet, "despite" (we believe it is "because") that diversity we are incredibly unified with virtually no turnover. Our focus is on friendship first and foremost. There is plenty of room to have differing views but at the end of the day, we are 'friends first' and we support each other regardless of factors that, in the broader world, create conflict and strife. Diverse views do not stop us from being friends and being a community that is highly stable and highly successful.
