Was listening to the ion and josh Q&A. One of the big changes ive asked for forever has been the ability to join multiple guilds at once in the form of circles. I felt this would be a tremendous way to enhance an in game community but was always met with radio silence. Im not totally sure they are going to do it correctly but we may actually get it at last.
Points:
1. Cross realm is a must.
If we stay with this cross realm situation, then these circles must also be cross realm. I wouldnt put it past blizzard to screw it up and make it realm only tho.
2. An adequate method of advertising your circle is required.
How can people know you have a circle for some activity they want to do? In practice, players arent going to take more than 1 step to search for a circle. So it cannot be complicated. That means tools to refine searches are useless. The best solution is to default LFG chat to on so that people get messages for circles. Ive never thought of a better method.