Hello everyone,
Iâm checking in again to make sure my voice is heard. Everyone contributing to this discussion needs to keep doing so, as well as convince others to post here and like comments. It takes very little effort to stay engaged with this. Even if we get no resolution on this problem, we can still keep the thread alive to bring light to the incompetency and stubbornness of whoever is making decisions about this issue in WoW.
As of now, I have only assigned a couple people in our guild with the âIs Officerâ check box since there are certain permissions I will not assign to 99% of members. As a result, those 99% of guildmates donât have access to features I think they should have, such as editing public notes. This is because eight privileges are all lumped together in a one-size-fits-all definition of âan officer,â as defined by someone at Blizzard. This is a problem.
Iâve been playing WoW since March of 2005, raiding since Molten Core of 2005, and leading our guild as guild master since TBC in 2007. Iâve been developing as a leader and manager for 14 years now. I know our guild and how to effectively manage it, not some stranger at a company who knows nothing about us. Thatâs as politely as I can say it. Please get out of the way of myself and other guild masters.
Please give us the individual permission customization we had prior to patch 8.0. Thatâs all Iâm asking for. Guilds have been less fun and more cumbersome without granular permissions. Guilds already have many challenges to deal with in modern WoW, as Blizzard has removed incentives to be a part of a guild and added incentives to do otherwise, such as through group-finder systems, overtuned mythic raid content, and many other things.
For further recommendations to help guild management, add a complete log/record system for the guild bank so the guild master can keep track of cumulative records on gold deposits, gold repairs, gold withdraws, item deposits, and item withdraws. Make it sortable by player. If WoW developers can create and maintain a statistics tab with all kinds of totally useless information for my characterâs history, they can add a feature that lets me keep track of guild bank records. That would actually help guilds and their leaders manage things like donations rather than have to make Google sheets and such.
Please address this problem. This thread began on July 17, 2018. Weâre now at May 28, 2022. Thatâs absolutely absurd. A shame, really. Iâm loyal to the game, the product, and the company. Thereâs an expectation of that being returned by listening to the feedback of the guild masters who keep many communities running and raiding alive. A lot of people who still play this game are hanging on by a thread. Stop alienating your players, especially guild masters who keep things together and generate literal dollars for the company by maintaining guilds.
Many other recommendations to help guilds have already been provided in this thread. The information is here. You have what you need, and the âdiscussionâ has already occurred. Read it, and pass the information along to the next group of people who need to make the corrections. Failure to do so will just further the stereotypes of poor communication and the apparent growing disregard for the guild community of WoW.
Regarding âcommunities,â they are going to create new types of problems for guild leaders and managers such as myself. I have people on our mythic raid team that want to swap to Alliance when cross-faction comes out, but cross-faction players canât be in the same guild. If I have both Horde and Alliance players on my mythic raid team, and I canât manage them all under one guild, itâs going to create gigantic headaches for me in various ways. For starters, itâs going to further distance players from each other, which will continue to slowly degrade teamwork. Itâs going to hurt cohesiveness and encourage players to further move into their own Discord servers and âcommunities.â Itâs going to create more cliques, and this will make guild and raid team management harder and harder, which isnât a sustainable team gameplay model, which is what raiding is all about, especially mythic raiding. Mythic raids are already overtuned and incredibly tedious to begin with.
It feels like the Blizzard team is just totally unaware of whatâs going on with their players.
I will continue to check in here until the change is made. Everyone else needs to do so, too.
Wretchedmist
GM of Obsidian Spur - Thrall realm
2004 Horde launch guild
