First of all, I’m sorry about my bad English but german forums are not supported as good as the english ones are.
I’m co-leader of a community-guild of a popular german games and entertainment news portal called GIGA.DE. My guild counts more than 60 members, probably more in the near future. Our members play on many different worlds.
At some point of time, we noticed that cross server guilds are weaker than guilds which are playing on ONE server. We cannot play together inside other regions than overflow servers or instances – okay, this will probably be changed in the future (guesting). But there are a few more negative aspects:
- It’s not possible to share items through guild bank (because they are server separated)
- It’s not possible to share bonuses like +10% Magic Find (which should effect the whole guild and not one single server)
- It’s not possible to earn the 100 extra influence by completing a dungeon with a full guild group if they are on different worlds
- It’s not possible to share guild banners (because they can’t be placed in instances)
Separating some features is a good idea, so each server can individually build upgrades: If most players on world a) want to play WvWvW, they can build those upgrades and world b) can build some upgrades from the economy category. But some features like the guild bank should be shared as same as the guild emblem or guild chat.
Because of this separating, we cannot offer upgrades like “10% Magic Find for 3 Days” to all of our members. Members who are nearly alone on their server can never get those upgrades. Those members will not represent our guild, so we are not able to earn enough influence. It’s some kind of ‘doom loop’ (i’m not sure if this is the right word
). It’s like being a guild inside a guild and it does not feel like a community =/
Fixing point three will change very much … This will help us to bring our different servers to one level.
I hope someone of the ArenaNet staff will read (and understand) this
Greetings,
- Teranas