Please SIGN this post on the SWTOR forums

[Phyreblade]

I figure if we keep this thread boosted to the top of the forums, it just may get some good attention.  Just maybe.  I'm eternally hopeful, with fingers crossed and all of that.  But unless the issue continues to be brought up and discussed and talked about, I don't think we can ever anticipate any real change or difference in how Guilds are managed in the game.  

 

So here's the link: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=863371

[October]

/signed

[Ztuke]

I do not expect my post to be up for very long so I will quote my comments below as they were posted on the SWTOR.COM forums.

 

 

/signed.

@Bioware

I found it offensive that one and more of YOUR representatives made comments in the past on the issue of the 500 name cap on guild rosters and dismissed it, by at the least implication, that it was a none issue as you had data showing that none or very few guilds had even come close to this cap.

I am a member of and an officer of a very active guild on the East Coast servers. On one of these servers alone, we have been forced by your attitudes to create at this date, 8, yes EIGHT, guilds in order to handle our membership numbers! Oh, I can see the trolls and snipers already making comments about cleaning out the roster, pruning old characters, limiting the number of characters and telling me to stop recruiting. To you buffons, I respond, why should I stop recruiting? RECRUITMENT, say it with now, re-cruit-ment, is the lifeblood of a guild, telling a guild, any guild to stop recruiting is the metaphorical equivilant as telling a person standing on a ledge of the fifthteenth story to "shut up already and jump you idiot!".

For two years now we had had to, at regular intervals of betweeon one and three times a month, purge alts and characters not played in some time only to have those members return and contact us, when they can be bothered to, express disappointment and/or disgust at the treatment we have shown by removing them. We don't like kicking characters, we don't see why we should have because you Bioware have set a cap that only made sense when the game was released under the ORIGINAL design models and not under the operating MODELS it now runs under. Yes, you responded by upping teh character limit from 8 to 12, to 18 then 20 then 22 and now 40 characters on an account on a PER SERVER basis! Fine, we the player base asked but to do such a thing without any thought or regard to what this would do to guild rosters, was thoughtless at the least, nearly incompetant at worst.

If you cannot raise teh cap because of technical means, are you at least able to provide us with more comprehensive roster management tools and tracking utilities? Are you able to intriduce the capability of LINKING MULTIPLE GUILDS TOGETHER UNDER A COMMON BANNER? Have you even given considersation such as this any thought whatsoever or were they beneath your contemplation?

Yes, I realise I come across as upset, but you try managing a guild for nearly four years with in excess of 400 ACCOUNTS and see how well your calm remains!

This is not an attack, it is just an empassion plea for some thought and action. We know full well that the chances that you BIOWARE will ever respond are slim to none, as you have made it utterly clear since approimetly six months after the first servers went public and live that you have little to no interest in communicating with us the player base in a meaningfull level of dialogue.

We are just as frustrated at the situation as you people are of us players moaning and complaining, but then since you hardly talk to us on a meaningful level what can you honestly expect!

 

Edited January 18, 2016 by Ztuke

[Phyreblade]

Thanks, Ztuke.  I went ahead and quoted you, too.  Just in case, lol.

[Cair]

Don't /sign here, go to the forums in phy's link and sign there =)

[Dreskoss]

I would sign, but it seems that I can't access the forums, regardless of being logged in and a subscriber.  I'll be contacting CS once again it seems.

[PopsSciclex]

I ScicleX'd the thread, as always take a bathroom break BEFORE reading it, no TL;DR.

[Minflexzel]

i did the thing

[ashe5k]

Don't have my security thing with me at work to get on but I'll try and remember when I get home. 

[Ryanplex]

Commented on it, hopefully they give guild management some love soon!

[Erudius]

done.

[Dansker]

I singed it as well, a bit late, but hey, bumped it again. Perhaps we should just start doing regular threads about this, spam the hell out their forums with threads until they finally do something.

[Phyreblade]

I singed it as well, a bit late, but hey, bumped it again. Perhaps we should just start doing regular threads about this, spam the hell out their forums with threads until they finally do something.

 

I have no issue with keeping this thread bumped up every so often.  If only to post once in a while to say, "This is STILL an issue, guys!"  I just don't want to be silent on the issue, because then nothing will ever change as they assume we're not worried/bothered.

[Boshu]

I signed it today

[October]

They can raise the stack limit to 9,999 items but they can't raise the guild roster limit, rip...

[Starscream]

just signed below you phyre

[Mike Fink]

Just signed. No reason this should not be implemented.

[PopsSciclex]

Thanks for the support everyone! Feel free to bat the trolls away as well, the more opinions and perspectives we get in there the more inclined BioWare will be to say something.

[PopsSciclex]

They've announced they will be increasing the Guild character limit to 1000 Members each.  This means there will be changes coming to how we do things when Chapter XII is launched in April with this update.  We are already discussing our best options at length amongst our Officers and will have our official plan posted on our Forums before the update goes live.

[kevanick]

That's great news! This may not affect each individual character/player but on a whole guild this was one of the more excellent news to be featured.