Earlier today, NA Content Creators participated in a Patch 10.1 group interview with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas with topics such as Cross-Faction guild restrictions, Mythic raid lockouts and more! Here's a summary of the discussions.
Social, Guilds and Cross Realm Regarding the guild member cap, they would love to increase it from a 1,000 but there's technical limitations. Raising the cap is not trivial but maybe would like to look at the experience of maybe alts as there are very few guilds that have 1,000 active humans in them. Nothing in the immediate future but definitely something they would like to do.For cross faction invites and the reason that you need to be in a community or friends before you can invite, it's something that you can voluntarily opt into. The connections of needing to be friends or part of the same community are what makes it opt in. It's a step in tearing down the faction barriers.
Can't set a date for cross-faction queued content, but it's the next step. However, cross-faction queued content is violating the opt-in mentality that they currently have. They want to move carefully but they are moving in that direction of tearing down barriers.
You can't change the faction of the guild and the faction is defined by the leader. You can't pass leadership to an opposite faction leader, but opposite faction officers do work. Regarding the Battle.net friends cap, Ion would love to increase it personally but it's a technical limitation.
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