Guild Wars 2

Roster management is a nightmare for gw2 guilds at the moment. There is no way to see what members have been inactive, or when they last logged on. Previously, every patch converted everyone’s status to “Unknown” before until they logged on again, but after the wintersday patch, members still have their previous location shown, and there is no way to tell when the last time a member has logged on. This is a devastating problem to guilds, because they have a growing list of inactive members that are impossible to distinguish from normal active members.

The only ways to weed out the inactives are error prone and complicated, such as changing member ranks when they log on and kicking those who don’t change ranks. An alternate equally complicated method is to manage a large guild database using google documents or excel.

The lack of simple roster management tools, such as a last seen date (in guild wars 1) is slowly killing the activity of large guilds, and the only way to solve the activity issue is to demand that officers devote an inordinate amount of time to manage the guild’s roster.