Letter from the Producer Vi

[Shura]

We really don't know anything about companies, from the above reply by yoshi-p from the interview it implies companies themselves are not an event but a group you join.

"we realized that we could bring out player Companies, but then if there's nothing for the Companies to do there wouldn't be any reason to bring it out"

so even after u join a company u need an event to go along with it, the words they use can have double meaning though. he mentions companies would be a global community but that doesn't imply it would be a large scale event, it might be a small scale endgame event that has a global impact. first thing that comes to mind for me is conquest points from ffxi, which had a global impact but the way to earn CP for your nation all involved very small scale events.

The way i see it, players will join a company and under go events, both large scale to do with 15ppl and small scale to do with 4ppl and u get points which u then change into rewards. Thats just my guess, we really wont know anything till its posted.

[Abriael]

The way i see it, players will join a company and under go events, both large scale to do with 15ppl and small scale to do with 4ppl and u get points which u then change into rewards. Thats just my guess, we really wont know anything till its posted.

That's probably a realistic assumption. He did mention at a previous date that the companies we'll see at the beginning won't be player-run, but NPC based, and centered around the three cities. So I'm inclined to believe that each city will have it's own, with it's own events, and people will possibly have to chose an affiliation, But again, what he said is not very specific, so this is no more than a probable interpretation.

I wouldn't be one bit surprised if company activities were akin to the concept of public quests introduced by Warhammer Online.