I'm actually a bit worried about how they will turn out. They were pretty specific in that post that was linked to in an earliers post, telling us that they were a special type of LS etc, they have also earlier been referred to as "player-run guilds".

However since the new dev team took over they've been very silent about this aspect of the game, which leads me to believe they have changed the direction of them. Also, what little info we have gotten points more to the companies being NPC run.

So what I'm worried about is that they have changed one of the old dev temas ideas that seemed really good and replaced it with something more generic. Hope I'm proved wrong though.