YGG Pilipinas Roadtrip Baguio: Engagement Is Everything for Web3 Communities
During the Baguio leg of the YGG Pilipinas Roadtrip, JB, Manong Gaming, Master Kamote and Sir Alvon joined Munchies and Miccolo for a chat on what it means to lead a web3 gaming guild.
Over the years, YGG and its regional guild partners have made significant strides in supporting organic channels for web3 gaming adoption. YGG’s IRL initiatives such as the Web3 Games Summit (W3GS) held in November 2023 in partnership with YGG Pilipinas, as well as the ongoing YGG Pilipinas Roadtrip, have left a lasting impression on the web3 curious.
At the YGG Pilipinas Roadtrip’s latest stop, attendees were able to get a closer look at the newest upcoming web3 games, as well as listen to panels and talks featuring YGG community leaders such as YGG Pilipinas Community Lead Spraky, ALLGUD guild founder Munchies, and YGG Content creator Miccolo. This included a panel featuring a collection of the Philippines’ most prominent web3 guild leaders in the YGG ecosystem and beyond, namely JB of NFT X-Street, Manong Gaming of GNC Guild, Sir Alvon of Twilight Infinity, and Master Kamote of Kuroi Bōshi Crew. During their panel, they discussed the origins of their respective guilds, their strategies for encouraging the growth of their communities, as well as their varying approaches to handling their role as community leaders.
The following is an excerpt from YGG Pilipinas Roadtrip’s livestream during its Baguio leg, translated from Filipino. Here, Sir Alvon, Manong Gaming, Master Kamote and JB talk about the different approaches they take to engage with their community members and make them feel included in the group.
Listen to the full recording on YouTube.
YGG Pilipinas Roadtrip: Live in Baguio City
Munchies (1:26:24): Why did you create a guild or a community? And what are the most effective strategies you’ve used to maintain the growth of your guilds?
Sir Alvon (1:26:45): For me, one edge I have is that I’m a content creator. So for every piece of content I create, I’m able to plug my community. But, at the same time, I’m more focused on the community than building partnerships with other organizations. I’m more focused on the people. I’m more focused on the members.
I also create events for my community. We have weekly podcasts, singing contests, and we also play web2 and web3 games. Whatever they want, that’s what I pursue. I don’t get to decide what we do as a community. I think that’s one of the secrets behind how we were able to build up Twilight Infinity.
Manong Gaming (1:27:45): We started out on Discord. In the beginning, there were just five of us. They were my most dedicated viewers, and our numbers grew, little by little, because of all the people asking about the web3 games I’d stream.
Since I wanted to guide all these people thoroughly, I invited them to join our Discord so I could speak with them more closely. It eventually came to a point where I felt like we were all a family. We’d come together every night, playing and exploring different web3 games. Before I knew it, those five members grew to 50, then 100, and now there are over 500 of us in the community.
Miccolo (1:28:57): How about you, Master Kamote? What was your strategy?
Master Kamote (1:29:08): Number one, I think, is engagement. Not just inside the community, not just online or offline. How do we create friendships if we don’t engage? How do you get a girlfriend if you don’t engage? You have to engage offline and online.
That’s how it is regardless of your strategy. We all have our own “forte” when encouraging community engagement. Sir Alvon has singing contests. You need to find the one common denominator that your entire community shares. That’s why people keep asking me for my community’s Discord, and they even ask if we have a group chat or a Telegram group.
I tell them that I have a Discord but to not expect anything big. You’ll see that we’re just casual gamers there. I’m proud of my community because we often discuss the gameplay of the latest web3 game releases, not the potential profit. To me, that’s so pure. That’s the engagement you’re looking for when you’re building a community.
JB (1:31:00): In our community, we have a structure that includes game leaders. Since our community plays a lot of games, we have game leaders that are responsible for empowering themselves and their fellow members. If they need to upskill, we provide the tools, even if it comes out of our own pockets.
It’s really important for a community to have engaging interaction and a strong structure. A lot of people join our community every day. Some of them don’t even know how to get verified on Discord to start with. So onboarding our new members really requires us to provide them with a lot of information. That’s what our game leaders do.
Aside from that, we also have frequent events. Whether these are online or real-life events, you need to know each member. There are a lot of posers out there, especially in our industry. There are a lot of bad actors looking to take advantage of other people.
Just to summarize what we’ve all mentioned, it’s important to be interactive with your community, especially for those who are starting out. We started from the bottom, and the good thing is that there are many communities that will help. You can reach out to other communities. Like Spraky said in his presentation earlier, YGG is the guild of guilds. So if you’re planning to build a guild in web3, join YGG.
You can listen to the full recording on YouTube.
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