SWTOR Guild Summit

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20120201

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SWTORGuildSummit

If we'd like to attend, I'm in Texas and I'd be willing to make the trip down for the summit. They seem to have already sent out invites to numerous other guilds with all expenses paid. At this point it is pay your own way.

[Fuse]

I expect to be in Austin around this time as well.

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

I'm just curious how they chose what guilds got all expenses paid invites before they ever requested sign-ups. It was nice to open it up to folks that want to pay their own way, though.

Hopefully they invite quite a few additional guilds from the new sign-ups they receive.

We organized a community-ran version of this in Fallen Earth and invited the developers. It was held completely on ventrilo, but provided some awesome back and forth on design decisions. I can't say it was productive in that game, but mainly because the Fallen Earth team was slowly layed off piece by piece until it went free to play and hardly anything was released content-wise.

Hopefully, with someone like bioware behind it, that won't be the case here. If the discussions go anything like they did in Fallen Earth, it should be interesting.

Here's to hoping it's not just a PR stunt.

[Zipperqueen]

I could take time off and go to this; I'm about 4 hours away in Houston.  Plus it would be good to get our name out there.

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

Same here Zipper! What part of Texas?

I hit Beaumont quite a bit as my brother and his wife stay down there. We come back through Houston on our way back up to Eastern Texas (Near the Tyler/Longview area, if you're familiar) to his the Asian market there.

I haven't been able to get my wife to San Antonio or Austin since she moved down here back in 2009, but I'm looking to change that this year; and probably soon before it gets too hot.

[Fuse]

soooo who am I visiting when I come down?

[likwidtek]

All expenses were not paid.  They clearly pointed that out.  They said they helped reserve discounts and such but everyone has to pay their own way.

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

Actually... read what Reid said towards the end of this post...

"When we started planning the Guild Summit, we decided we would invite a select number of guild leaders to Austin at our expense, just like the Fan Site Summit. In addition, we decided to open applications to all guild leaders who were interested in attending at their own expense. "

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=2416466#edit2416466

They paid for those that were invited before they opend it up to the "public" to sign up and pay their own way. They are paying for some private invites to attend. It's just those that sign up now who have to pay their own way.

[Sared]

I'm up East of Dallas, and the drive to Austin isn't too terrible. Duoi is nearby as well. Would love to do this, or at the very least have a get-together.

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

I had no idea there were so many FA in Texas. We should have a party somewhere, for sure.

My apartment is small or id host. Maybe we can just rent some place out for an FA event.

[Heironymus]

I had no idea there were so many FA in Texas. We should have a party somewhere, for sure.

My apartment is small or id host. Maybe we can just rent some place out for an FA event.

We used to have this nifty map on our site where you could list your location.. it was cool because you could see where other FA members were in relation to you.. I have no idea where that went though.

[Tbone]

Unfortunately I live nowhere near Texas and cannot afford the trip. We might be able to send someone in my place, but I'd prefer it at least be a long-standing member of the guild.

[Mharz]

... We might be able to send someone in my place, but I'd prefer it at least be a long-standing member of the guild.

I feel very strongly that we need to be represented at this by a senior member.

[Tecknik]

... We might be able to send someone in my place, but I'd prefer it at least be a long-standing member of the guild.

I feel very strongly that we need to be represented at this by a senior member.

Senior, you say?

Broin it is.  Go get 'em, old man!

[Fuse]

Right now i'm looking at Feb 29th - March 4th to be in Austin, but could see if the woman owuldn't mind moving that around a bit... Though she hates swtor and fa enough right now for taking so much of my time, she may just leave me in Austin if I go to this.