Guild Wars 2

Introduction:

Though I love playing GW2 and enjoy almost every aspect of it’s content there is always one part that has been greatly lacking for a mmo that prides itself on being a community/guild focuses game: communication. I have recently been promoted to guild leader of a casual guild and where I first was enthusiastic about getting things done I am now getting increasingly frustrated by the lack of ways to get a message across to my members or to create discussion. At the moment the only way to communicate in game is through the guild chat, one-on-one messaging with a cap on the amount of messages you can send per time and a cap on amount of messages you can receive and keep and lastly a message of the day.
For any other way of communication you need to go to a third-party, forums for example. Like I said I lead a ‘casual’ gamer guild and in my opinion this goes for a lot of guilds. Most members just do not want to check some sites first before coming online: they want to have fun with their friends in-game.

So problem:
Guildwars 2 lacks a proper way of communication between guild members.

Solution:
1. Allow guild leaders and officers to send messages to every member at once. This creates a way to quickly address problems and events in the guild without having to change the message of the day or accounting for offline members.
2. Create a in-game guild forum. I played multiple games (best example is browser-based Tiberium Alliances) where a guild was giving a forum-mechanic where topics could be created and discussion could be held without having to resort to a third party. Though I realize this is more of a long-time project I think it could easily be done.

Conclusion:
Dear Anet, realize that guilds are one of the strong-point keeping this community together and give them the space to reach out to each other. The world today sees a great increase in casual gamers (as opposed to die-hard-stay-in-their-basement-all-day-gamers) and accommodating to wishes like the ones mentioned above will allow them to enjoy every aspect of the game just like hard-core gamers. Hopefully you will take a look at these problems and help guild leaders and officers globally who struggle to keep their guild together due to lack of ways to reach their members.

That’s a great post. I agree completely.

Seems there is not a lot of recognition of this problem though.. post already pushed to second page.

Excellent suggestion!
Especially like the mail sending option, since guild chat is available to online members only and is not persistent. Mail is.