On console I can guarantee there have been changes not notified in patch notes: I noticed in Forgemaster Falls house the water from the waterfall has been updated in texture - it is now much better; it doesn't feel "old-gen" anymore. But it seems to be just the waterfall, not the water in general in that house, so it could be an involuntary side effect of other changes, appreciated btw...
Maybe you could use your Discord invite link instead of the external website address? Although most of the guild advertising I see in zone chat on XB-NA doesn't even include that, so it might be better to leave it out entirely.
Yes, I'm definitely going to remove the URL from the ad in zone chat. But what's next? Are they going to warn us if we put the URL in our MOTD or Guild Description? We need some ZOS feedback on this I think.
I guess it was an auto warning due to the website. This automation was likely integrated to find gold sellers who advertise their gold selling platform or other commercial websites.
It's funny, I came here to post about this exact same thing. I'm in the top guild on Gray Host and usually there are tons of people online and having fun. This last weekend I logged in on Saturday and FOUR, I repeat FOUR people from my guild were in Cyrodill. There was also only a five minute wait to access GH. Usually there is an hour wait on weekend during the same timeframe.
I participated a little but I have not subclassed my NB and I noticed two things. My resource drain was noticeably worse and I was unable to do much damage to most people while at the same time I was taking significant damage more than normal. I have not subclassed yet due to what I am sure are going to be continual nerfs/changes.
I am thinking that is why my guild was absent.. I am wondering if others are absent due to subclassing also. I am thinking ZoS is seeing huge numbers of population decline in PVE and PVP. I know my vendor sales have been almost non-existant since subclassings release.
The rewards from the event aren't anything special (ESO really needs a better event reward system, it hasn't changed for years and it's becoming boring, they should be more useful and interesting) and I suspect most casual players have no interest in going into Cyrodiil and getting farmed by people with proper subclassed builds.
I only really do PvE trifectas, I am not a PvP main by trade so feel free to take this with a grain of salt - the skill gap from new players to experts was always high, but with Subclassing the "problem" just got way worse because now you have the PvP mains with optimized subclassed setups (which is a significant power spike compared to what it was before) and then the casual players who prefer to take skill lines based off personal enjoyment/RP purposes/themes who aren't really any more effective compared to what they used before (just normal base classes) so they just get stomped even harder than they did 3 months ago (or rather, before subclassing and previous MYM events).
The only thing I see that looks remotely questionable is the inclusion of a web address at the end of your ad text. Perhaps that is the part which is considered advertising?
Although, nothing in your text seems to have any relevance to the two sections of the CoC which were specifically cited.
Edit: Although maybe the fact that (as you say) you're posting it in each zone is also part of the issue?
If you filter on dk then it will show the person that was a dk in a duo with another player or companion of any class. Its a filter on the duo leaderboard effectively. If you set it back to all you will see the full leaderboard. If there are 99 players on there look at the bottom most player, that is the arc you need to equal or beat