Announcing The Old Republic Guild Summit

Let's hope it's not cherry picked guild leaders who basically praise Bioware the whole time.

"The games perfect!"

"Don't change anything!"

"Bugs? what bugs?"

Etc...

Besides, they didn't listen to the beta testers when they pointed it numerous issues. Why would they listen now?

I don't hate the game, you can see that by my join date, I am just aggravated at how it's turning out.

Wow I just applied. Then I went back and read we have to pay for everything.

Bwahahaha.

No thanks.

I heard the experience and offices are pretty cool. You can go back and look at the two fansite summits that BioWare has held before. You get a tour, some play time, interview/Q&A time, and even a night out for dinner/party.

I would rather see BioWare pay for at least part of the trip, as people flying in from more remote areas of the US are going to be paying a hefty price. An all expenses paid visit would be great and other companies have done it before, but at least some compensation would be nice.

As for the event, I doubt we will see anything come from it. BioWare boasts about their metric system and how much data they can pull from various channels, yet some bugs in raid content continue to exist. BioWare knows the popular features that people want, they know some of the more major bugs and what needs to get prioritized.

What can this event really bring in terms of new ideas and feedback that has already not been talked about?

Quote: Originally Posted by Darth_Eclipses

Wow I just applied. Then I went back and read we have to pay for everything.

Bwahahaha.

No thanks.

EA does not have the funds to cover such an expense. They need to fund other projects and since budgets are so tight, it would break the bank for them....oh wait.

I honestly don't know if I should be excited or worried about this event.

This is actually one of the major reasons I've been pushing to do something like this for a long time. The events you're referring to are public conventions, where you get an audience of people who don't play the game, and aren't aware of the community and the information that's out there already. At those events, we always want to answer any questions, regardless of whether or not they've been answered before. Your audience at a gaming convention tends to be much more "all-around gamer" and less "hardcore SW:TOR fan", and therefore we cater our plans towards that.

In this case, we're specifically inviting guild leaders who are actively playing the game. While we're inviting guilds from all walks of life, the application process is there because we want to be able to raise the level of discourse we hold with the leaders, and so we can have serious, in-depth discussions about the state of the game. This event isn't just a Q&A like we've done previously, this is a two-way conversation between the people making the game and the people playing the game, and I think that makes a huge difference with this event vs. conventions we've visited in the past.

i think, that a guild need have level as a character, in other mmos the guilds have levels,
level 1-50 of guild maybe or more

I think many of the people fussing around here have never been to a 'real' dev meet-up. These were common in Ultima Online when it was run here in Austin- and the relationships we made with the developers there were lifelong. I still talk to some of those guys, even though they've moved on to dev for different MMO's.

I'm ultra excited about this, and even if I'm not chosen, I told my husband I'd love to hang out with some of the guildmaster's of other guilds, after the events are over.

If you're really serious about getting information from the best guilds, you should have a web conference for those people who can't make it. You know, that crazy modern technology thing that lets us communicate over vast distances.

What makes it more difficult is that it's on a Sun-Mon-Tues. You know, some of us who might have attended have jobs, families, etc.

Why not have a Q&A right here on the forums? Open a thread up and allow folks to post questions. And you guys group similar questions together. Then you answer the questions in one large swoop on the forums.

LOL so let me get this straight, Bioware is making this sound like some kind of exclusive trip, like limited supply of space and were inviting chosen guild leaders blah blah, oh btw you have to pay for everything, like we aren't providing anything for you. Oh and btw the reason for this trip is so that you guys can tell us how to make our own game better, but we aren't even going to help out you guys out for helping us out by at least paying for hotel or anything. It is like Bioware wants us to pay every month to beta test their game (the game is so buggy we are pretty much just paying for a beta test) now they pull some PR stunt like this and want guild leaders to tell them how to make their own game better but won't even provide any compensation for the trip itself. LOL Bioware, what a joke.