Guild Member limit, need to be raised up to 10.000 members

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Guild Member limit, need to be raised up to 10.000 members…

our guild have been around since 2005… on Tarren Mill ( Brothers in Blood )…

We have had around 900+ guild members for years now… and each month we need to remove around a 100 of them… and that breaks my heart…

Most of our members love having all their alts in the guild and sometimes take 1 or 2 year breaks, why should they be removed… only because we have only 1000 member limit…

when we keep them after a 1 or 2 or 3 or even 4 year break… they love that htey have not been kicked… it like comming back to their old home…

So Blizzard plz, think about this…

PS: now we even have Realm WIDE… members, and that makes the 1000 member limit just makes things so strained…

PPS: and yes… we are a very split guild with, casuals, hardcore and what ever wanna jion and relax and just have a place to call home.

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On one hand, I’d say this is something that would only impact a very small amount of guilds.

On the other hand, what could possibly be the reason for a restriction?

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Well, good to hear your view point

If you ask me, guidls that wanna be small, will stay that way, its more about why not let the cap be higher for those that want that, since for Blizzard and the game as a hole its better if people can join guilds they wanna be part of with out thikning of having just a few alts in the guild since the member cap will be impacted by everyone having 10 alts in the guild.

And to your second point, why have the Restrictions in the first place, since back in the day it made sence, but now the servers are way bigger and this last years we have had Realm wide guild members so why not make the cap bigger then…

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Probably technical issue. Either server/data base restriction or functionality with guild chats and such.

They probably just tested it once 10 years ago and now have that cap in order to not run into weird problems.

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Along with that it would be nice if they improved guild management tools.

These kind of things fly under the radar but they just make for a more polished product.

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So you know they tested it out 10 years ago and in the span of a time, you don’t consider that they maybe did some Tech improvement since.

Hope you can be more precise since I dont understand what you mean about what you said.

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10.000 would be to much as most realms do not even have that amount of players/ I would say make the cap 2k max. The max used to be 500 in wotlk before rising it to 1000 end of wotlk /early cata.

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No I do not know. Nor do I know how easy/hard it is for them to change the cap.

You asked about a possible reason that was not increased/removed.

I just made a guess about possible reasons that a guild cap is in place. Think of it like this:
Guilds have a guild chat. If 10 players are online in a guild, when one of them writes a message, it is sent to the server, and then the server sends it to the other 9 people in the guild. Now instead of 10 players, have 100 online. That message from a single player is sent to 99 others.

So the 1000 members cap seems to me like a “cap” of the sort of “we tested this system with X numbers of people, and above that it started lagging/not working properly” a common practice among IT business.

Again, not claiming to know if that is the exact reason, but it is one reason that comes to mind after having some experience in IT.

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many guilds dont even have 100 members lol

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900 members and you want more, for real? That’s not a guild, that’s a black hole sucking every player who approaches.

You most certainly got this insane amount of members by mass spamming invites to randoms in every area you can, please don’t do that, it’s annoying and besides you in your delusion, nobody is gonna call that their “home”.

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Well, this is part of my points, some guilds like beeing small, others like beeing there for most people, so racing the cap would not affect those small guilds alt all

PS: hope your guild is doing well :slight_smile:

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Think about it a bit more, since each member of the guild can also be an Alt… so since each account can have 50 chars… It means that a guild can fill up really fast if you have some altoholics in it…

I just think that 10.000 would be a huge number that most people would never reach, and it would also keep a cap so guild would not end up have a 1.000.000 members ^^

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Ah, I see, Good point thow, did not think about that, I do believe that with todays tech we are far beyond that point since today more PC and internets are way more potent then the past, but again, for those that don’t have that, it would maybe be an issue.

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( Joke )
hmmm, its great to see people like you know me so well before you have ever met me or know who I really am, I guess you are some kind of superhero with brain reading powers or super intrusive spy sneaky powers impressive…
Thanks for telling me things I did not know about myself or the guild I am in :stuck_out_tongue:

( Real Answer )
The main idea behind our Guild is to be a place for likeminded people, a place for them to call home… so why would be go around mass spamming invites to random people… and annoy people… that would kind defeat that idea, so you are way off on your predictions Sir ^^

If you want, we are here for you and it would be an honor to have you among our members to show you what we are all about ^^

and you ask about how we tell people about our guild, each member of the guild can invite people, so if they have friends… they do invite them, if they meet people they enjoy playing with they will invite them…

some of us, do “General chat” message with Guild link in it, so let people know we are around.

when it comes to me, I have alts, in each “dragonflight” zone and then in the General chat, sometimes a day I post a 1 message to let all the new players we are around.

Our guild never invite people with we have not talked to, and we do respect peoples time and considerations, so no spam no irritating mass invites of that kind, since we as a guild know that each char out there is a human beeing that sometimes just wanna do things on his own and not be part of a guild…

PS: we also focus on beeing polite and showing people the respect noobs and returning players and veteran players deserve, just so you know :slight_smile:

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I dont have to think about it , i think its a bad idea sorry :frowning:

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I think the limit of 1000 serves 2 purposes:

  1. Limiting data being sent across the game
  2. It’s a size that suits most guilds, while limiting spam invite guilds (not saying yours is one, but if they had to choose a limit that was fine for the 99%, I’d say 1000 is reasonable)

I’m not sure if communities have the same limit, so perhaps consider an overflow community?

This seems like the 65 character limit, it’s not crazy high, but it’s also suitable for most people.

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Communities are indeed restricted to 1k members

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I remember playing Ultima Online 25 years ago (an inspiration to the dev of original wow) and they had a feature where Guilds could form alliances. Perhaps they could do something similar here. Two Guilds could have a treaty between themselves to be linked. Such linked Guilds could share their banks, chat, calendar etc.
Although this might be better for communities…

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Ten thousand… Are you sure thats enough? :thinking: Like holy hell :sweat_smile:

Might as well rename guilds into Legions

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the guy might be planning to raise an army to invade another planet in azeroth :laughing: