| Between the chat channels and new raid interface it would not be hard to have a virtual guild in EQ for which no tag exists. However, you'd still have to do all of the hard work associated with the guild, such as arbitrating loot, determining who can participate, who is leading, etc. The tag makes it much easier to tell who your friends are, such that the social structure would probably break down if there were too many tags participating to be easily remembered.
Theoretically if you've got all of the hard stuff worked out between the guilds then you'd be in even better shape than the uber guilds, since you could team up to take out the harder mobs, then split up to take out the medium ones that only require a fraction of the people.
Olio |