let’s make guilds fully inclusive based on a Battle.net level so people who have many alts across multiple servers, can all join and stay in the same guild with their friends.
Effectively bind your Battle.Net to one guild at a time.
*This wouldn’t prevent you joining a local guild on the current connected servers. It just allows you to join the guild you assign your account to.
This would prevent a full on cross-server guild that spans over all of them and allows for people who made decisions to play on other servers years ago, the opportunity to play with their friends.
I’ve always wanted Blizzard to move everything onto the battle.net platform.
So rather than having a WoW guild that exists within WoW alone, then it exists on battle.net like your friends list. So even if you’re playing Overwatch, then you can still chat with your WoW guild. And as you say, then it allows your guild to have characters from your own server and other servers alike.
Likewise with player profiles. Here I am Jito the WoW character. On the Diablo forums I am Jito the Wizard. And so on for the other games.
I’d love if I just had one battle.net profile called Jito that I used for everything, and if you clicked on it, then you’d see my progress and character for WoW, my stats for Overwatch and StarCraft II, and my rankings in Diablo and Hearthstone and so on. Everything in one Blizzard profile.
Blizzard’s platform is so outdated because it isolates everything within each individual game, instead of treating all Blizzard games as a shared platform and a unified community.
Why introduce communities when you have a perfectly functioning design, called “Guilds”. Just expand upon the use of guild.
Communities may be good for setting up a RP group with random people or perhaps a rated BGs but my guildies don’t chat in a community, they chat in a guild therefore that’s where I want my focal point to be.
My thought is that guild system is outdated concept not fitting anymore with 2021 playerbase
sure there is certain % of playerbase who enjoy them but majority of people just avoid guild because they do not want to make personal relations with strangers through wow anymore.
they like the idea of playing with others and around others just dont see any point in having any ties to them .
what the problem is wow is more clearly extremly outdated game -while other mmorpgs went ahead and introduced stuff like AI in instances and for quests and very intuitive systems wow is still sticking to stoneage of gaming from 2005-2010.
what would help this imo to re-invent guilds and push them into 2021 would be mega- cros server guilds created under banner of blizzard themselves - al it would take is to hire like 200 people and make them CMs in such guilds making and runing events in game as normal job - providing safe enviroment from toxicity .
but blizzard dont care anymore - they want to milk this cash cow and kill it.
With Discord you get the hazzle of having to manage an external program whilst also playing WoW and having to manually ensure that everyone in your guild is also on Discord.
This is far less convenient than just having everything by default within the platform you’re already using for the game you’re already playing!
You also don’t have any guarantee that Discord’s future is aligned with the ongoing development of WoW or other Blizzard games. I mean, I am duly noting that there are rumors of Microsoft wanting to buy Discord for $10 billion as of last week! And if Microsoft have an eye on Discord it’s probably with a desire to integrate it into their oh-so-awesome ecosystem (looks at Skype…). I’m not sure Discord’s future looks bright if you’re a WoW player…unless you’re hoping to play WoW on an Xbox.
Plus, the notion that all WoW guilds have discord is just untrue. What all WoW guilds do have is a guild chat within WoW, because that’s provided by Blizzard by default. That’s the advantage of having an internal system versus an external program - you get everyone on board with everything by default.
I think it will take some major investment from Blizzard to compete with Discord as it is atm. you can all be playing any game, you can stream, you can chat to each other on voice or in the various channels. The mobile app works well on the move.
Blizzard was slow to catch up and you can talk on the battle net mobile app in communities but the guild chat is still very disjointed and has to be loaded in the wow companion. The actual bnet app and communities works very similarly to discord.
Personally I’m not a fan of removing realm based guilds in favour of cross realm communities. We already have those.
I’m just trying to make it a little more easier for those who are already established in a guild to easily re-connect any alts with their guild members. I love the guild concept. We have a good community in ours and we have a good laugh.
I’d simply like to join the guild type chat when I am on a different server. Not everyone is confident to speak on Discord. Some people don’t necessarily like their identity exposed through voice chat.
I joined a community once, it was toxic. It wasn’t built up around a long standing group of people and it disappeared as quick as it was created.
I have encountered other issues tonight which involved finding a new player in need of help. I offered him the option to join my guild so we can guide them. Unfortunately due to the server connectivity, they were unable to join. This is a gigantic issue worthy of solving especially for new players.
I might as well have been playing a different game as we can’t truly engage with each other.
These are small quality of life improvements which would bring about greater engagement.
The game is still popular and the old model of guilds still works really well.
Either this or join a guild chat as a guest. I just want to dial in to the funny chat. =)
Unfortunately trying to get everyone onboard to join a community is difficult and it just adds 1 additional unnecessary chat channel.
Personally I feel my suggestion is quite opposite of the community function.
From what I can see, it’s very different to a community. The only comparison is that both options, being in a guild or a community offers a social environment.
The fundamental differences are guild achievements, rewards and a sense of belonging to an established group of people.
My experience with the community function hasn’t been good. I feel the ability to bind your account to 1 guild at a time gives you flexibility. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Just implement it as an additional support option. =)
I’m sure there are plenty of people who have an alt on an unconnected server that would love to dial in with their favourite guild.
Communities have one great advantage, you can join multiples ones. I’m only in one community (and they’re really great even though I don’t do much) but I can see that having a raiding guild and a pvp community and an achievement hunting community would be a useful thing.
Communities have a degree of flexibility which is needed cross realm. As you can’t trade good cross realm you couldn’t have a community bank cross realm. Not sure why they don’t want us trading good cross realm, maybe so that quieter servers don’t get flooded with bots to farm everything to sell on more populated realms,
If you have your guild make a bnet community for off-world toons you still have the same “sense of belonging”. Which then means the difference is guild achievements (haven’t seen anyone care about those in a long long time) and rewards (still nobody cares, even less so now with exp bonus removed from heirlooms).
But you can bind your account to 1 community at a time if you want too, nobody is forcing you to join several different ones.
Imagine if there was some sort of like community thing Blizzard could create that allows for bnet accounts to join and chat no matter what toon they’re on…
If communities came first then this would be fine.
This means I have to create a community and try and get everyone to join it. It’s like taking something that works, breaking it down, putting it back together and finding it’s only half utilized.
I wanted to steer away from full cross realm guilds or mega communities tbh. The niche pockets of guilds is nice.
I hope I explained my suggestion clear enough. =/ I just want to log on an alt that’s on a different server and join my mates in their guild without paying £19 for a transfer.
No one is going to want to join a fresh community, it just becomes a case of building 2 platforms which becomes a huge inconvenience…
