The guild relations program
by Amanda Rivera 
Oct 23rd 2007 at 7:00PM
A while back WorldofWarcraft.com introduced the Guild Relations Program, and set the challenge for any guild that was interested in participating to meet the criteria. Today they announced the first set of guilds that have been invited to participate: Sleeper Cartel , Resurrection, Your Quest Log is Full, Blackrock Legends, and Exanimus. Congratulations guys, you get to represent us to the Blizzard game designers and get access to the betas, whenever they become available.
If you are interested in having your guild be a part of the program, Blizzard asks that your guild do the following:
If you are interested in having your guild be a part of the program, Blizzard asks that your guild do the following:
- Participate in constructive discussion in the World of Warcraft General Discussion forum or Guild Relations forum.
- Post helpful information for other players to read in any of the World of Warcraft forums.
- Create World of Warcraft-related movies and link to them in our forums for others to enjoy.
- Develop fan fiction to enrich the overall entertainment experience for those who enjoy lore and creative writing.
- Create game guides and make them available for other members of the community.
- Anything else that demonstrates a genuine willingness to help other members of the World of Warcraft community is also welcome. Once enough members of a particular guild begin to stand out in this fashion, the leader of the guild will receive an invite and further details via the email address listed on the World of Warcraft account he or she plays on.
In other words, be model citizens of the WoW gaming community. Participate, educate, enumerate. That doesn't sound too tough. More guilds will be added as the program continues, so get those guild members discussing things constructively on the forums, and perhaps you too will be selected.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ghen Oct 23rd 2007 7:23PM
pucker up. Kiss ass for beta.
Hexile Oct 23rd 2007 7:49PM
Ermmmm.... Call me a curmudgeon, but doesn't that bullet list basically entail all the things that they would normally *PAY* a community relations person to do?
So they are basically getting that sort of thing for free, in exchange for more free labor while you QA their patches for them.
Blizzard manipulation ftw!
Mike Schramm Oct 23rd 2007 8:01PM
Sleeper Cartel are good people, we've featured their parties before.
Slarti Oct 23rd 2007 9:26PM
Oh yeah, how long has it been since they'd announced this stupid program? One year? Two years? I almost thought Blizzard forgot about it...
"Oh yeah I have a great idea, lets just tell all WoW guilds to do nice stuff for us, you know, answer questions, release fan material and so on. We tell them they'd get part of a cool program if they do this long enough, something like a 'guild relations program'. And here's the great thing about it: we'll simply never invite any guild to this program!"
Well, grats to the guilds who made it.
Darias Oct 24th 2007 11:35AM
Actually Slarti, the program was announced last September / October, and at the time, eight total guilds were invited. All of us -- meaning the entire roster of each guild -- were offered beta keys to TBC's closed test.
Once TBC hit, the feces hit the rotating wind maker and Eyonix got behind in keeping up things with us. After that, the Guild Relations forum was generated. From there, we kind of took it upon ourselves to get ingrained into the community. We policed ourselves, tried ardently not to feed too many trolls, and really created an amazing array of knowledge across all the server types and play styles.
I'm not wholly sure what happened to the other three of the eight original guilds. However, with a little patience, the recognition for the work our guild (and the other guilds) have put into our communities is well worth the wait.
Badger Oct 24th 2007 3:51PM
Pardon me for putting this so bluntly, but ... Is this a f---ing joke?
Blizzard's 'online community' is where cooperation goes to die. Those people don't talk; they just argue, and the CMs clean up the mess. Posting anything from the shortest video clip to the longest, most detailed, most comprehensive game guide results in a Flame War.
There is a reason that Guilds set up their own web sites, rather than trusting Blizzard's site to permit them to communicate. That reason, as Sartre once noted, was "Other People."