BSN Guilds, Player Factions, Squads and Teams: What would you like to see? How should it be organize

It will be great when BioWare share more details about the guild system.

For me, it's important that a guild can be large - I don't want to have to mess about for a few 'friends' to be available, I'd like a large pool of guildmates, ideally from BSN that I can play with at a button=press in-game.

Certainly, many many people are setting up Discords but again, I'd like high player numbers to access and don't want to use 3rd party applications.

Discords are more of a 'PC thing' as I understand it (maybe someone who knows can chip in).
They are basically an online chat room and everyone has one because they are a thing cool kids have.

I can see the similarities.

I certainly plan to set up a BSN Guild on PS4 on release day, which I'm taking vacation time off work to dive straight into Anthem.

My goal would be for everyone here on PS4 to join it so that there is a large pool of players on at various hours. That will very naturally, as we all start to observe who's on during our normal gaming times, help us to find our regular squad or particular members to run the 4-man groups with.

So, my goals would sort of look like this:

1. Establish a guild where people can find members on at the same time as themselves, and start to form squads from that.

2. As everyone starts to become familiar with Anthem's mechanics and builds, start looking for some "leadership" within the guild who would like to specifically help members new to Anthem or MP in general. We did this a lot in ME3MP - have 2 or 3 established players bring a new player into their group and we'd set out on missions and explain tactics, builds, etc. As the new players ran with us and got a feel for things, they grew stronger, started asking deeper mechanics questions, and very quickly became one of those established veterans themselves, taking on new members under their wing - a cycle of growth and help.

3. Once we have a better idea of what events and challenges look like, I'd like to help get groups running to complete those. For example, if there's a specific weekend challenge, we can use the guild to alert folks to what that challenge is and do runs to complete it.

4. Be able to form squads within the guild that are dedicated to running strongholds and other higher-level difficulty content, who can then turn around and lend support to newer members.

SofaJockey - Discord seems to be the new hotness for gamers staying in touch no matter their platform or whether or not they are in-game at the moment. I originally ended up on it because my RL sparring group is all college-age and don't do Facebook anymore (that is for us old people now, seems like), so it was the only way to ping them about what day/times we're all available to meet up at the park and bash each other with padded swords. Discord has text chat rooms and voice chat rooms and are private - only people you give the invite link to can access and my understanding is that nothing on Discord is Google-searchable, so viewed as a private and "safe" space to interact. How true or not that is, I don't know.

As far as gamers using it, this is how I see Elder Scrolls Online guilds using it - in that game, there is guild text chat. Obviously, you can only type in guild chat when you are in the game. Guilds also have a "Message of the Day" area in the game so members can open up their guild and see any important messages that guild leadership has posted (such as a current raffle or organizing an event run), but that has very limited space to write. If a guild is active and does lots of activities, space can become precious for advertising guild events. Thus, lots of ESO guilds have a Discord server - with the invite link posted in their guild's in-game Message of the Day area. On the guild's Discord, they have all the space they want for posting raffles, organizing events, etc. You can make different channels which work like boards here on the forum - so, a channel where people can post request for armor/weapon crafting, a channel for folks to group up and do dungeons, etc. Discord is accessible from laptop/desktop or a phone app, so it makes it super easy and convenient for chatting when not in-game. Think of it a bit like a big group text message, but organized like a forum with various boards for different content areas.

I like what Dragon Racer has to say. I think those would be good ideas and ways to start meeting and playing with players

From other game experience, a lot of guilds seem to have discord servers set up on PC and tend to use it instead of built in ingame chat.

If they allow large guilds, we could have a guild subsection here. That would give space for recruiting, organizing, and generally chatting among guild members without resorting to yet another location. It wouldn't offer voice chat, but I believe that would be available in-game among group members if you have a headset.

Definitely gonna vote for "D."  I'm totally on board for that.

It was twenty levels gained today,
Sofa Jockey taught the guild to play,
They've been going in and out of games
But they're guaranteed to raise some memes.

So may I introduce to you
The guild you've known for all these years
Sofa Jockey's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

We're Sofa Jockey's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you will enjoy the game,
We're Sofa Jockey's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sit back and let the Javelin go.

Sofa Jockey's Lonely, Sofa Jockey's Lonely,
Sofa Jockey's Lonely Hearts Club Band
It's wonderful to be here
It's certainly a thrill
You're such a lovely gamer guild
We'd like to shoot some Scar with you
We'd love to shoot some Scar

I don't really like to stop the game
But I thought that you might like to 'splain
That the Storm's Ultimate is really lame
And he wants you to combo the bloody thing

So let me introduce to you
The one and only BSN
And Sofa Jockey's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

B … S … N … !

For me personally I hope for better than Destiny system not quite as cool as Warframe system. Not that I wouldn't want Warframe levels of clan/guild support but I don't see that happening out of the gate.

On a personal membership level I can only join if it is cool that:
1. I like to play solo quite a bit. My first play through of the campaign will likely be entirely solo.
2. I sometimes take breaks from multiplayer games to play some single player games, sometimes for weeks at a time.
3. I probably won't be top tier in the 'elite' activities.
4. RL always comes first. During the summer tourist season for example I work 12 - 16 hours 6 days a week. Not much time for games.
5. I am a middle aged dude.