You guys caught this yet? Just saw it.

WoW -> Community -> Guild Relations -> Guild Nexus

WoW -> Community -> Guild Relations


/boggle

I dunno. I'm going to reserve my judgment on this until I see any of that actually pan out, but no doubt this is an amazing recruitment tool. A permanent link on Blizzard's website to your guild's homepage is like free advertising that you are looking for people (whether or not you are).

That was my only gripe about the whole thing. A lot of us purposely avoid the WoW forums because of the raging cest pool they are and that automatically excludes you from this program.

Also if this is the "Guild Relations" program what about us guilds that got TBC beta keys for being in the program already? Or was that different?

The original email I received:


Congrats to those guilds selected only good things can come from this.

I think it's a sound idea to try to organize constructive feedback from a small group that isn't likely to only consist of the higher end raiding guilds. This is a chance for them to intently listen from a sample of 'the masses' rather than wade through the typical 'nerf this or that qq'.

Someone once pointed out that Blizzard is awful considerate to spend so much time on raiding content that impacts so few players in their total population. I see this as an effort to gain perspective for the more common player types.

The first guilds selected appear to be:


Your Quest Log is Full - Ally guild on Greymane that apparently does not raid

Blackrock Legends - Horde guild on ?? that downs High King Maulgar

The Sleeper Cartel - Ally guild on Perenolde that downs Void Reaver.

Resurrection - Horde guild on Skywall that has 4 down in SSC and Void Reaver

Exanimus - Ally guild on Gurubashi that has Illidan down




Seems like they tried for a cross section?

Being one the guilds chosen, I'll try to explain as much as I can. We were contacted about this program almost a year ago now, and it has only now been launched. Eyonix, up until this point, just hasn't had the time needed that he wanted to devote to this program. But it has finally started, and so far going pretty well.

The Guild Relations forums themselves are actually quite different, from what I've seen, compared to the General, Class and RnD forums. There seems to be a lot more respect between posters, and for the most part it doesn't get trolled very often. It has been a bit of a sanctuary for a lot of people, but I'm not sure how it's going to survive when the program gets linked in the General Forums. Eyonix seems really excited and dedicated so far, and I hope his presence, and moderating will be enough to control more of the major problems with the WoW forums.

Rayeth, we've already seen a huge influx in numbers to our site. It's left to be seen whether it increases our potential for good applicants, though I'm sure our total number of applicants will rise dramatically.

Buiden, those beta invites were slightly different than this program. We received that letter as well as the invites through this program last year during beta. That letter I believe was just to a variety of well progressed guilds.

Anyways, our guild is really excited about all of this and look forward that what will come of this program in the future.

I still have no idea how the TBC beta invites went out, either on a guild or individual basis.

I thought I had seen something similar a long time ago. I guess it fell to the wayside until now. At that point it sounded more like an opportunity for guilds to learn about running guilds from each other. Maybe I'm remembering something entirely different. Either way, seems like a good thing.

Yes, this is the program that mentioned over a year ago when the Guild Relations forum was originally released. It had fallen to the wayside until just a few weeks ago when we were contacted again, asking if we were still interested. We actually used to be Forceful Entry back when we first got contacted.

Blizzard should realize that the moderation and discussion quality of their forums is bad enough to keep the more mature people away from them, no matter how many goodies they add for posting there. Hell, even the forum software is literally a disaster for a company of blizzard's caliber. Still can't do proper searching on forum after 3 years.

The EU WoW forums are better though, any thread calling for a nerf to another class is met with immediate locking or deletion. When I stop seeing "@Huntard" threads in the Hunter Forums, then I will know Blizzard actually cares about their own forums.