Official Discussion Thread for "Sign Up Now to Participate in the ESO 2025 Guild Summit"

ZOS_Kevin · February 10

This is the official discussion thread for, "Sign Up Now to Participate in the ESO 2025 Guild Summit"

"Developers, community leaders, and players get together to share and exchange ideas during the ESO 2025 Guild Summit."

Tendrielle · February 10

Hey, could you specify the time frame? is it the whole day, or parts of it? Which time zone?

ZOS_Kevin · February 10

Tendrielle wrote: »

Hey, could you specify the time frame? is it the whole day, or parts of it? Which time zone?

Sure! So we will have a Guild Celebration that will take place over a few days. However, the Guild Summit part is one day. It will be on March 13. However, times are still being locked in. It will be friendly to North American working hours (EDT Timezone specifically by March 13) as our team will be hosting it, if that helps. But once we have times locked in, we will let everyone know.

Sachsen71 · February 10

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

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Tendrielle wrote: »

Hey, could you specify the time frame? is it the whole day, or parts of it? Which time zone?

Sure! So we will have a Guild Celebration that will take place over a few days. However, the Guild Summit part is one day. It will be on March 13. However, times are still being locked in. It will be friendly to North American working hours (EST Timezone specifically) as our team will be hosting it, if that helps. But once we have times locked in, we will let everyone know.

Note that date falls after the switch to daylight savings, so it would be on EDT.

ZOS_Kevin · February 10

Fair point! Thanks for the catch there.

Tendrielle · February 10

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Sure! So we will have a Guild Celebration that will take place over a few days. However, the Guild Summit part is one day. It will be on March 13. However, times are still being locked in. It will be friendly to North American working hours (EDT Timezone specifically by March 13) as our team will be hosting it, if that helps. But once we have times locked in, we will let everyone know.

Thanks, Kevin! So my prob is I can't sign up (I would waste a spot) if its EDT morning as I am working late afternoon CET that day. So kindly let us know the exact time frame before the deadline for signup passed, if possible

ZOS_Kevin · February 10

Tendrielle wrote: »

Thanks, Kevin! So my prob is I can't sign up (I would waste a spot) if its EDT morning as I am working late afternoon CET that day. So kindly let us know the exact time frame before the deadline for signup pasted, if possible

I'll flag this for folks and see if I can get a concrete time. Thanks for the question!

DragonRacer · February 10

Working from home perks, will adjust when I take my lunch hour that day if I get selected.

NotaDaedraWorshipper · February 12

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

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Tendrielle wrote: »

Hey, could you specify the time frame? is it the whole day, or parts of it? Which time zone?

Sure! So we will have a Guild Celebration that will take place over a few days. However, the Guild Summit part is one day. It will be on March 13. However, times are still being locked in. It will be friendly to North American working hours (EDT Timezone specifically by March 13) as our team will be hosting it, if that helps. But once we have times locked in, we will let everyone know.

What about being friendly to EU guild leaders being awake hours? Please also use UTC for time or at least have it added along with the US ones. Think of the people across the sea which makes up half or more of your playerbase.

Sintao · February 15

Just some feedback on the application form for the Guild Summit.

I notice that the form is pretty simple (always a good thing!), and that on this form the primary focus of the guild allows us to choose from General PvE, Dungeons/Trials, PvP, Trading, Housing, Social and Other.

I am wondering why this does not match the foci found when using the Guild Finder? The in-game guild finder tool lets us browse guilds according to Trading, Group PvE, Roleplaying, Social, PvP, Questing and Crafting. (Ignoring the even finer granulation that can be used with the Activities drop-down).

In particular the form to apply to the Guild Summit omits the Roleplaying focus.

Roleplaying is the focus of my time in the game and (in the guild I am in) it’s a nuanced thing that brings an air of positivity, immersion as well as unique new content to many, with a fair few members who are new to RP joining up.

We can leverage the deeply immersive lore, story and setting of the game, and this seems apt because the game is officially described as ‘the award-winning online RPG set in the Elder Scrolls universe’. RP in the description there stands for Roleplaying.

I can see from the Guild Finder tool that there are (on PC NA) only 17 Guilds that list RP as a focus who also have 51 or more members. Although that seems like a small number I feel it could and should be higher. Maybe it was once?

Many role players have ideas and feedback that we think are constructive and useful and maybe not beyond the scope of this year’s development endeavours.

(Yes, I and others also do a lot of other content!)

In short I am applying to the summit and using the ‘Other’ option.

A second and completely different piece of feedback is to ask that two summits be considered. One for the USA time zone, and one for the European time zone (at an EU friendly time and date. I am sure this is some extra logistics for the team however I feel it could be worthwhile and definitely allow for a more even world-wide representation and more equity from the non-US player base.

Onwards!

argyro · February 27

@ZOS_Kevin Will an announcement be made when the emails are sent out? I don’t want to miss it in case it gets sent to spam folder 🙇

DragonRacer · February 27

argyro wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin Will an announcement be made when the emails are sent out? I don’t want to miss it in case it gets sent to spam folder 🙇

Seconding this

Tyralbin · February 28

Would be nice to know in advance in case we have appointments or work schedules on the day.

DragonRacer · February 28

So, on the east coast business has now closed for the week of Feb. 24th. I’ve checked spam folders. I signed up roughly 15-20 minutes after the article first launched since I saw spots were limited so wanted the best chance at maybe being chosen.

Did anyone get an invite? Curious to see if nobody got one yet and they’re delayed or if I simply didn’t make the cut (which would be disappointing, but the world moves on).

Tendrielle · March 1

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

I'll flag this for folks and see if I can get a concrete time. Thanks for the question!

Thanks for the invite which just arrived!
Now to prepare for the summit, could you maybe help us understand what from ZOS' point of view would be a good question that can be answered, if possible? Maybe some (theoretical) examples?
I only know what not to ask (about future/incoming updates for guilds).

DragonRacer · March 1

Ah, that does answer my question then. Unless invites are going out staggered, I did not make the cut. Sadness, but it is what it is.

Everyone who did snag a spot, have fun and represent well the general concerns and ideas for the future of all guild types!

ZOS_GinaBruno · March 3

Hi everyone! Just to update, the rest of the invites will be going out this morning (real life got in the way...)

DragonRacer · March 3

Thank you for the heads up! Just got my invitation.

T_agg · March 3

Hello o/ Um I am unsure of where to ask this so I'll ask here, are we allowed to change our primary guild we submitted to the secondary one or no? Also thank you so much

baratron · March 3

Do you want us to submit questions in advance? It seems like there are too many guilds included for everyone's question to be answered if we're trying to type them in real time.

DragonRacer · March 3

baratron wrote: »

Do you want us to submit questions in advance? It seems like there are too many guilds included for everyone's question to be answered if we're trying to type them in real time.

If not submitted in advance, another idea - especially since we’re all being pooled together into a Discord group ahead of time - allow us to maybe put our heads together on forming questions in advance? It can still be limited to one per guild, but I imagine there could be the potential of a lot of repeat questions, which then kinda “wastes” the question slot of other guilds if they don’t bring an itemized list of potential backup questions to then scratch out as they are answered. If we organize somehow ahead of time a pool of questions we all agree we’d want to see asked, each GM in the group could assign themself to asking X question. That way, we all Round Robin it and all collectively get answers rather than potentially 20 question slots getting wasted on “can we ever have the guild bank automatically stack items again?” or something.

GMs and high-ranking officers are the most organized players on this game outside of maybe trial and PvP leads (who are also likely GMs themselves). Surely we can summit together the questions we’d like to ask in advance and come in as a united front of collective, organized group questions.

Leighlaa · March 5

So, both my husband and I got our acceptance letters but we're a little bit confused. While each guild is allowed 1 question, we're asked to "avoid questions focusing on future development, such as “Will you ever implement...” as many features are currently being explored and not ready to be discussed."

So my question is: What questions can we ask? I'm a bit at a loss of what kind of questions we can ask if things about guild functionality/features/future implementations are not allowed. I'm not sure what the point of questions is if we're not encouraged to ask anything about actual development.... of the devs.... with whom the summit is being held?

NOT being snarky, just curious- are we expected to ask things like, "What is your favorite guild activity?" "Do you like to watch the guilds of the game?" "Do you know anyone who runs a guild?" Like these are all empty and pointless. I'd like to ask about functionality (of which there is very little, other than organizing folks and bidding traders) that comes without the need of addons.

What kind of questions do you expect, if we aren't allowed to ask dev questions of the devs?

@ZOS_Kevin

ZOS_GinaBruno · March 5

T_agg wrote: »

Hello o/ Um I am unsure of where to ask this so I'll ask here, are we allowed to change our primary guild we submitted to the secondary one or no? Also thank you so much

For our purposes, it doesn't really matter. So you're fine!

DragonRacer wrote: »

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baratron wrote: »

Do you want us to submit questions in advance? It seems like there are too many guilds included for everyone's question to be answered if we're trying to type them in real time.

If not submitted in advance, another idea - especially since we’re all being pooled together into a Discord group ahead of time - allow us to maybe put our heads together on forming questions in advance? It can still be limited to one per guild, but I imagine there could be the potential of a lot of repeat questions, which then kinda “wastes” the question slot of other guilds if they don’t bring an itemized list of potential backup questions to then scratch out as they are answered. If we organize somehow ahead of time a pool of questions we all agree we’d want to see asked, each GM in the group could assign themself to asking X question. That way, we all Round Robin it and all collectively get answers rather than potentially 20 question slots getting wasted on “can we ever have the guild bank automatically stack items again?” or something.

GMs and high-ranking officers are the most organized players on this game outside of maybe trial and PvP leads (who are also likely GMs themselves). Surely we can summit together the questions we’d like to ask in advance and come in as a united front of collective, organized group questions.

This is a good idea. What we can do is open a channel next week specific for this purpose so everyone can chat and coordinate. There's a very real possibility that we won't have time for every single guild to ask a question during the allotted time, so any way we can consolidate would be good.

Leighlaa wrote: »

So, both my husband and I got our acceptance letters but we're a little bit confused. While each guild is allowed 1 question, we're asked to "avoid questions focusing on future development, such as “Will you ever implement...” as many features are currently being explored and not ready to be discussed."

So my question is: What questions can we ask? I'm a bit at a loss of what kind of questions we can ask if things about guild functionality/features/future implementations are not allowed. I'm not sure what the point of questions is if we're not encouraged to ask anything about actual development.... of the devs.... with whom the summit is being held?

NOT being snarky, just curious- are we expected to ask things like, "What is your favorite guild activity?" "Do you like to watch the guilds of the game?" "Do you know anyone who runs a guild?" Like these are all empty and pointless. I'd like to ask about functionality (of which there is very little, other than organizing folks and bidding traders) that comes without the need of addons.

What kind of questions do you expect, if we aren't allowed to ask dev questions of the devs?

The intent here is to avoid a situation where everyone is asking "Will you ever add xyz?" and we can only give unsatisfying, repetitive responses such as "It's something we've thought about" or "Maybe some day". It's ok to ask questions about development, but just go into it with the understanding that a lot of stuff is very much in progress/discussion, and plans very frequently change for one reason or another. I'll also say that we're aware of many of the common pain points, such as the desire for better tools for example, and we'll be lightly touching on some of this during the summit. Hope this helps gives a bit more insight, but let us know if you'd like further guidance.

Leighlaa · March 6

Thanks, @ZOS_GinaBruno - it DOES help! Coming from other games where we have led guilds (my husband for almost 30 years!), we have a lot of features that we have come to really enjoy in games that are related to being in/running a guild. I don't think they all need to (or sometimes even should) be a part of ESO, but it's fun to talk about.

While I know there are places this could be posted on the forum, I think a helpful addition to a discord channel for questions would be a sort of "suggestions thread," specific to guild features. I know having a forum with too many sub-forums (for example, a suggestions section, with further sections for different areas of the game, like guilds, PvP, crafting, housing, etc.) can be overwhelming rather than helpful- but I think a place to air our concerns or offer our ideas (some of which might be good!) would be nice. The forums so often feel like an echo chamber of angry, having a sort of "Ideas and suggestions box" forum section would, I think, be a really inspiring place to visit, offer ideas, and see what the community thinks could be fun!

I know that an entire forum section might be extreme, but a pinned post specific to GUILD FEATURE SUGGESTIONS would be a good start. That way people at least have a place to offer their ideas they are definitely going to want to share/ask about. I know I would like that! All I seem to keep thinking of are features from other games that I want to roll over in my mind or chat about with like-minded folks. I'm pretty sure that's a part of the goal of the guild summit, to discover what could help guilds in ESO! We don't want to just beg for stuff, we'd like to have an in-depth conversation about ways to improve guilds in the game we love.

This guild summit is a wonderful way to get the ball rolling, I am very eager to see the ways the conversation continues after the event.

To be clear, still no idea what questions our guilds will ask, but I have a bit more direction, thanks!

ElAland · March 6

The summit is described as a "Recap and findings from recent guild survey" and "Overview of future guild functionality the ESO development team is considering". I am very much looking forward to hearing those presentations! Unfortunately since we don't know what is under consideration ahead of time, and we are discouraged from asking about future functionality it is difficult to come up with pertinent questions.

I know what tools I need to manage my trading guild because we've developed external methods (spreadsheets/custom coding) that provide the functionality we need, but it would certainly make it a lot easier to manage a guild to have much of that functionality in game (and not have to pull data one page at a time via an addon). Unfortunately I can't fit everything into a single question so I certainly support the idea of opening a channel next week allowing people to share or coordinate to some degree.

DragonRacer · March 6

Honestly, I’m pretty excited about the summit. Even with an outline, I’ve never attended one before so I’m curious to see how it operates. And geeking out about guilds is something I got wrapped up in fairly early in ESO.

I’m curious to hear from other GMs, especially those who, like above, have experience in other MMOs. ESO has been my first and only MMO experience so I have no comparison.

I’m also supremely curious to see how the representation looks. It feels like PC gets a ton of attention and conversation on the forum as it also seems a majority of forum participants are PC. But I’m on console and without ads-ons (which I know will be coming to us eventually now), running a large successful trading guild on my server is a very different life experience in some ways than it is for PC GMs. “They not like us” LOL I think it’ll be neat sharing experiences/tips/ideas from across the aisle, so to speak.

Looking forward to it! So much so my dorky self actually took that afternoon off work to ensure I could give it my full attention while not being a distracted employee. LOL

ZOS_GinaBruno · March 6

DragonRacer wrote: »

Honestly, I’m pretty excited about the summit. Even with an outline, I’ve never attended one before so I’m curious to see how it operates. And geeking out about guilds is something I got wrapped up in fairly early in ESO.

I’m curious to hear from other GMs, especially those who, like above, have experience in other MMOs. ESO has been my first and only MMO experience so I have no comparison.

I’m also supremely curious to see how the representation looks. It feels like PC gets a ton of attention and conversation on the forum as it also seems a majority of forum participants are PC. But I’m on console and without ads-ons (which I know will be coming to us eventually now), running a large successful trading guild on my server is a very different life experience in some ways than it is for PC GMs. “They not like us” LOL I think it’ll be neat sharing experiences/tips/ideas from across the aisle, so to speak.

Looking forward to it! So much so my dorky self actually took that afternoon off work to ensure I could give it my full attention while not being a distracted employee. LOL

Glad you're looking forward to it - we are too! This is actually the first time we've held a virtual summit like this before so it'll be a learning experience for everyone. We'd love to get some feedback once everything concludes so we can make improvements for similar efforts in the future

I will say, based on the signups, there is a lot of PC representation but there are also a fair amount from Xbox and PlayStation as well!

Eclipse318 · March 6

Are signups over? I'm getting an error page.

DragonRacer · March 6

Eclipse318 wrote: »

Are signups over? I'm getting an error page.

Yes, sign-ups ended back on Feb. 17th, according to the linked article in the OP.