📝 Dev Discussion #72 - Guild Program 🤝

Dev Discussions are an opportunity to join in on player discussions about topics that Intrepid Studios want to hear your thoughts on. This is less about asking us questions, and more about us asking YOU the questions! If you do have questions about Ashes of Creation, keep an eye our social media channels for our monthly livestreams, check out the Ashes of Creation community wiki, or try the #questions channel in Discord! In this thread, we’ll be discussing: Dev Discussion - Guild Program The community team here at Intrepid Studios is working on a Guild Program for Ashes of Creation. A Guild Program is something to foster strong development relationships with guilds. The heart of many MMOs are guilds. Guilds provide folks a sub-community of the larger game community where they create friendships and memories. We as gamers at Intrepid Studios have been a part of these guilds for many years, and we have always dreamed of companies actually working with guilds. We want to ensure that we are fostering good relationships with guilds similar to what we want to do with Content Creators. ❤️ Quick Preface:

• So long as your guild's
Intrepid Studios Accounts are in good-standing, no matter the size, this program would be available to you. No favoritism in who is invited.
Intrepid Studios has no plans of this program providing advantages in-game.
• This is a community-run program, and would not take away from development.

With that, we’d like to ask you the following:

• What would you hope for in a Guild Program, including features, or opportunities?
• Have you participated in Guild Programs in other MMORPGs? If so, what features or initiatives did you like
(or dislike) about them?
• What in-game activities would you like to see in a Guild Program? Example realm-wide events hosted by a guild that anyone can partake in.
• What kinds of features like website leaderboards or real-world swag, would best motivate your guild to participate? If you had to choose one or two things, which would they be?
• How would you prefer guild achievements and contributions be recognized - publicly with leaderboards and or social media, or privately with member-only perks?

Please don’t feel limited to the thought-starters above. If you have thoughts regarding this topic, please feel free to share! ----- As a reminder, this is NOT the thread to be discussing in-game guild feature requests. Off-topic discussions will be removed from this thread <3

Leonerdo;c-498134

What the heck is a Guild Program? Sounds like an excuse for the devs use to play favorites with some mega-guilds. No thanks. Keep all the guild incentives purely in-game.

I suppose someone could compare it to something like the Content Creator Program. Your concerns of a program being for large guilds only is fair, so would you say you'd hope for this program to cater to small guilds?

As a reminder, this post is NOT for in-game guild feature requests. This is for a community tean-run program between Intrepid Studios and guilds to foster quality relationships for guilds and communities of all sizes that are in good standing <3

Hey folks! Popping in here to provide some more insight. The heart of many MMOs are guilds. Guilds provide folks a sub-community of the larger game community where they create friendships and memories. We as gamers at Intrepid Studios have been a part of these guilds for many years, and we have always dreamed of companies actually working with guilds. We want to ensure that we are fostering good relationships with guilds similar to what we want to do with Content Creators. ❤️ Just to note, and we have updated the OP to include these notes:

• So long as your guild's
Intrepid Studios Accounts are in good-standing, no matter the size, this program would be available to you. No favoritism in who is invited.
Intrepid Studios has no plans of this program providing advantages in-game.
• This is a community-run program, and would not take away from development.

Gaul_;c-498172

PS I would not consider any community event directly managed by Intrepid to be "community-run." Extra Life, for example, is a great community-based event but it is not a "community-run" event, since Intrepid employees and mods managed the entire process. A good example of a community-run event would be some small PvP tournament or WoW's World First Race. In the World First Race, the event is presented by the guilds themselves with other community streamers/presenters involved. Blizzard observes but does not directly manage the event presentation, nor do they officially declare winners and losers.

Apologies, this was a matter of semantics. I edited the post to "community team-run" for clarity.