Guild Wars 2

What is a guild to do when their roster is maxed out? What is a guild to do when they have more than double the number of active members moving from GW1 to GW2 with less than half the roster space?

I know of a few hundred account holders that would greatly appreciate guild alliances and Alliance Chat. I bet those few hundred also know a few hundred, and so on…

I surely don’t understand the Guild roster cap at 500, though just as surely there’s a good technical reason. However, it’s a well-known fact to players and devs alike that in Guild Wars 1 there were plenty of guilds that were well into the 1000’s of members, spread across Alliances.

The Alliance system worked well, being flexible enough to accommodate overflow guilds as well as disparate individual guilds. Alliance chat became the de facto chat channel over guild chat and relationships were formed, fun was had.

What is in the works to allow those larger guilds who have brought their loyal membership to Guild Wars 2 to continue to grow, dare and communicate with ease? At the very least an Alliance style chat (even if there are no other benefits than a common chat channel) should be relatively low cost to implement, but would greatly serve those larger guilds that are, let’s face it, a large part of the customer base.