Guild Wars 2

I think it has been mentioned before, but further attention needs to be given to the fact that the current ’Looking for.." forums are failing to achieve their intended purpose.

Before, there was a sub-forum under WvW titled ‘World Recruitment’ where servers would post their community recruitment messages and some guilds would post WvW recruitment threads, and there were two sub-forums under guilds for guild recruitment messages and for players to post their interest in joining a guild respectively.

While this setup was a bit disjointed perhaps, as a frequent user and reader of all three forums, I felt they served their intended purposes well enough.

Now all three have been dumped into one huge garbage can of sorts.

There is no longer any point really in servers posting recruitment messages because they can’t possibly keep up with all the individual guild recruitment posts. Player LFG posts tend to similarly get swept away with the current.

A lot of the problems stem from those guilds that seem to think that the LFG thread serves as their own personal Twitter account, and they post every tedious daily detail in an effort to keep their thread on the first page. If everyone did this, then every attempt at communicating any sort of meaning via the recruitment forum would quickly vanish.

Still, at least when there was a separate guild recruitment thread the problem was not as pronounced as it is now.

I can tell you from my experience that the majority of guilds and players previously looked to these official forums, as opposed to any other GW2 sites, as a means to form connections. Since this change, I am seeing a decrease in this usage.

There are three possible alternatives:

• Separate out the forum threads again so that servers, guilds, and players each have an individual forum to post in
• Establish clear, and enforceable guidelines for guild recruitment posts so we don’t have to sort through a constant stream of “blah blah, today my guild found a penny on the sidewalk” post.
• Have someone set up an unofficial guild recruitment forum somewhere else, akin to what was done with the WvW Matchup Commentary so people have somewhere else to go where their needs can be attended to

My only suggestion would be splitting it up into two sub-forums: EU and NA.

Having them all in one place was frustrating at first, but it has panned out. I’ve enjoyed only have one place to go to see the new LFG/GLFs, it feels more active and everyone get’s more exposure.

But under no circumstance can NA and EU even play together, so separate them please.

In my opinion, few people will look past the first page when looking for a player/group, so everyone has to bump way more often. Previously you could bump and stay up front for at least 2 days. Now it’s less than a day, and it’s primarily because NA bumps during their primetime, and then EU bumps during theirs, and we keep pushing each other to the 2nd and 3rd pages.

During the old system, one bump would bring in ~25 views. After the switch, one bump brought in ~10 views… but that number has been climbing back to 25. Which tells me people are adapting and it is still working. The issue just boils down to bumping twice as often.

So it’s working decently, but NA and EU have no reason to be in the same forum.

I totally agree with Beorn, whenever you see players LFG it’s a search in their threads to see if they’re NA or EU.

Also what type of guild they’re looking for etc.

Maybe even split that into a list of existing guilds and a list where people can thread LF guild?

Guardian of Angels.9867:

I totally agree with Beorn, whenever you see players LFG it’s a search in their threads to see if they’re NA or EU.

Also what type of guild they’re looking for etc.

Maybe even split that into a list of existing guilds and a list where people can thread LF guild?

Previously threads were split into ‘guild looking for more’ and ‘player looking for guild’. It was orderly, but I haven’t minded putting them all into this one. It hasn’t been as bad I though it was gonna be. But combining LFG, GLF, WvW and PvP has been too much, so that’s why im wondering if just splitting NA/EU would be a good middle ground.

Dang it Guardian… I’m redoing our website and I looked at yours. It looks good, giving me ideas… to many… need to stop. Kudos bud, well done.

Awww that’s too sweet <3 ty (always open to feedback though!)

Send me a whisper when your redoing is done!

How did you build yours/where do you host?

I’ll bump to support this. Currently too many people are competing for the first page on “Looking for” when we have two different server groups (NA and EU) and we also have PvP LFGs in the mix.

It is a congested mess atm, I dont know what they were thinking combining it all together it makes no sense. It needs to be seperated by gamemode and guild recuritment/lfg like before

Also strongly supported. As I pointed out in another thread, this forum by design has a signal to noise ratio less than 1 for all players, since NA and EU are completely separate (technically that could allow for S/N=1, but actual players and guilds are a bit more particular than “anything on the correct megaserver”).

Is there an officially sanctioned method of making suggestions like this? I don’t see a “Suggestions” forum. Not sure Anet people read this forum, and in any case this thread will be buried on page 3 again in another day or two. Looks like there used to be a Suggestions forum but it got killed in the revamp for some reason.

Yes, I totally agree. I’d say it needs to be either split up in WvW/Guilds/PvP separately or at least Looking For/Offering separated. This is just one big mess and it’s impossible to use it.