What happened to this announced feature?

[kaynide]

You could argue that the development of this feature ultimately led to Fellowships.

Could be- that would certainly be easier to implement, one would think. And would be entirely separate from whatever complicated code goes into FC permissions.

[Rinhi]

I've never really figured out why people think reviving an old dead topic is such a bad thing.

I agree, but that poster has spent the better part of the week bumping old posts only to say nothing with their posts to flood the forum

[GrizzlyTank]

Would have been nice to have, like how in GW2 you can sign up for 5 guilds but can only represent one of them.

[Dzian]

Still holding out hope for this. Maybe in 6.0?

It'll never happen.

Free company alliances were tied to a plan that revolved around actual free company content and was aimed at building free companies up into end game groups..

But without any content designed for free companies the concept of alliances becomes useless. As in the current state of the game an fc is basically nothing more than a chat channel..

They had lots of cool ideas even letting free companies summon primal as a kind of special limit break but yeah the whole thing got scrapped and the focus shifted to ultra solo friendly instead.

[Lanadra]

I've never really figured out why people think reviving an old dead topic is such a bad thing.

I would be inclined to agree if it served an actual purpose. In this case though it's little more than a troll doing the rounds purposely dragging up ancient and buried topics just to necro them. Like, your own post marks the last contribution to this before it was necroed above.. and that was almost 6 years ago.

[ICountFrom0]

I actually like this idea.

Course you could only alliance with FC's that are in the same GC alliance.

Would also serve as an excuse to finish the GC content, in this time of war.

Free company alliance ces were tied to a plan that revolved around actual free company content and was aimed at building free companies up into end game groups..

But without any content designed for free companies the concept of alliances becomes useless. As in the current state of the game an fc is basically nothing more than a chat channel..

They had lots of cool ideas even letting free companies summon primal as a kind of special limit break but yeah the whole thing got scrapped and the focus shifted to ultra solo friendly instead.

Indeed, the only FC based adventuring content, diadem, has been scrapped and repurposed.

Don't mean it won't show up again, I'm hopeful. ... and hope is a horrible pain.

[ReynTime]

Probably went to the same place where open world dungeons and combat that rewards effort and creativity, both which were brought up in the past, went.
The abyss.

[PMSJordan]

Yes please!

[Catwho]

I'm okay that this was never implemented, because they instead focused on other more useful things: Cross world linkshells, data center world travel, the fellowships (although those are not really well utilized), the pre-formed full 24 man raids someone complained about on the 2nd page, cross world party finder, friend list estate teleportation.... and so forth. I'm already in an "alliance" of sorts with 3-4 other FCs, and we just added everyone to each other's friends list and hang out in the front yard of the biggest of the FCs on event nights.

But this way each FC can sort of be managed its own way, although one of the running gags is threatening to kidnap the members of other FCs