Guild Functionality Restored

Please use raidcall 1101 for all communication purposes/grouping. You will not have a guild when logging in, but it will be restored as soon as it is fixed =)

Thanks for the post.  I was thinking of all of the work the guild leaders did to get us into the family just to see them do it all over again.

Good to know things will be ok once they turn it on again.  Until then I am without guild to chat with.  Raidcall!

Any idea what happened to cause this? (curious look) I note that mail is disabled as well. Smells like some manner of exploit?

Gaiscioch broke it again?

The in game mail is turned off too atm.

Not an exploit per se, more of a glitch in the functionality of the social mechanics (guild, mail, banks). Serious enough for ZOS to shut it down entirely to prevent further damage (because people being accidentally hooked into each others'  ingame accounts, with full access to their character and bank inventories, as well as their mail, is bad news bears).

There was no way to hotfix something that broken, so we got the downtime. I'm pretty okay with that - I'd much rather they tackle issues like that head on, and work on a fix, than pretend everything's fine for the sake of the media outlets.

I will be glad to have guildchat back though; Zone chat gives me hives.

Yeah - major glitches always show up when the Live client is hit by a large influx of players.  People wonder why it wasn't caught in testing - but there is no way to test the impact of such large numbers when these functions just don't used during betas.  I know it might be hard to comprehend but as an example when we had the guilds up and running in the last major beta weekend we didn't get close to these types of numbers - so multiply that 10 to 100 fold and you will understand.  

As long as they see the problem, find what causes it, and then fix it - it will all be good.  It is when they don't see, find, and fix the real issues arise.

Safe journ!