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I do not think the goal for the shadow guild owners was monetary. Very few people spend money for guild wars and the level of involvement required - almost a year of participating - would cool off even the most interested buyers. I am also not aware of any unofficial market for guild medals/EQ dups yet.

More likely in my opinion the owners of shadow guilds created them for the medal transfer purposes and when medal transfers were largely disabled re-purposes these guilds simply to play against each other. Apart from the visible rating guilds also have less visible value of the medals they haven't yet spent. So, the owner of these 6 or more guilds - probably one of the top 10 guilds - figured that those 6 guilds are not going to make that into top 20 - and dumped them. It's quite possible that our discussion here made them realize that partial guilds aren't strong enough to compete, so they combined some of them as well as fine-tuned their total powers to have the best shot in the last war of the season.

It also possible that our requests to them to give a chance to other players have been heard...

As a matter of fact, I took control of one such dumped guilds through one of my alt accounts and if that guild ends up in top 50 will consider inviting the most active forum participants to collect some Elven Queen dups. I am not entirely certain how to do this in the most confidential manner, but we will think of something, please stay tuned if interested.