Guild Wars 2

When I saw ‘social play improvements’ listed as part of the feature patch, I thought for one blissful moment that we might finally be getting the ability to access our various guild chat channels when we’re not representing. I cannot understand why this has never even been mentioned by the development team.

Considering this is a game which allows players to be in multiple guilds, it is frustrating that everything about the current guild system encourages players to represent one large guild as much as possible, and guild leaders to insist on 100% rep from members. Even accepting that this is the case, it’s absolutely baffling that we don’t have the ability to chat across our multiple guilds. Smaller guilds and social guilds struggle in this environment, and players are unnecessarily cut off from their friends across other guilds.

Multiple guild chat would enable a lot more folk to make friends and play together, and actually make having multiple guilds worthwhile. This is the ‘social play improvement’ the game needs. Please think about it, Anet

I absolutely second this proposal.

The whole concept of multiple guild representation in gw2 is really good: it allows a person to belong to a small, RL friend guild; to a big, cross-server guild dedicated to massive events; to an average, server-based guild for guild events and local events; and so on. BUT the current system, as it is, allows no easy way to socially and actively participate in all these guilds. This really is a bummer, and greatly nullifies the potentials of the multi-guild system. Communication is the key for the guild, and the current chat system is a stop to the potentials of the system.

I don’t really have much to add except to say that I agree. At the moment, being in multiple guilds really isn’t all that different to just regularly joining and leaving guilds in any other game. It’d be great if I still had access to some part of a guild (like guild chat) even while I’m not representing. Otherwise, there’s no real point to having multiple guilds.

(Hey, maybe this’ll be part of the “Facilitating Friendly Play” announcements. I can dream)

The whole multipe Guild system is a fail…. It destroys freidship (speaking of own experience)! The Alliance systen in GW1 was actually much better. With Alliances, no one can be mad because u’re not representing their Guild, as like today…