Guild Wars 2

Please allow for chat from unrepresented guilds to be shown.

Why? Because it is a hassle to switch representation just to check-in on another Guild’s chat. Guilds are primarily a social constructs; as such this artificial restriction inhibits a player’s participation in the social elements of more than one guild and actually prevents players from being good citizens of more than one guild.

E.g. A friend from another guild you are not currently representing would like to play with friends. Because no one responds to him within Guild Chat he decides to try again later and logs off.

In the above example, if you were able to see an unrepresented guild’s chat, you would have known he was looking for someone to play with and you both could have enjoyed playing the game together.

Why not? A few people have expressed dissatisfaction with this suggestion, among them the following reasons have been enumerated:

• Guild exclusivity.
  While some guilds desire exclusivity as part of their game play, not all guilds are designed like this. Some are simply formalized social circles. For guilds wanting to be exclusive, I would suggest that the guild leaders and members make recommendations on how ArenaNET could support guild exclusivity as a management option within the guild interface.
• Fear that guild members will only take away from the guild and not give anything back to it. E.g. Guildmates who are not active in my guild are leeches.
  It is not ArenaNET’s responsibility to moderate and manage your membership, if you have a bad player who does not contribute in your Guild, demote or kick them.
• Other changes to the way guilds are managed are more important.
  yes, there are other suggestions out there that have merit, but as long as tenancy in multiple guilds is allowed, this suggestion has merit.

Related Suggestions
Sometimes a suggestion gets lost in a sea of other suggestions; the search feature will show that guild chat is a popular topic for one reason or another (custom channels, anyone?) however I feel that this request is important enough of a feature to be called out on its own. That being said, there are plenty of predecessors to this that are worth your perusal:

1. Chat Improvement Omnibus
2. Enable chat with multiple guilds
3. Guild Suggestions
4. Guild Chat and Group Notifications

NB: My previous thread on this subject has since been removed. If you are, or were, in support of this suggestion, or against it, I would request that you express your opinions once again in this thread. If you do support this feature, please show your support on this or other related threads.