I recently came across an old press alpha review on youtube (/watch?v=SLp0ykvotEI&t=8m04s) and at this spot 8mins in, he talks about the game presenting you with questionnaire whereby it uses your answers to match you with like minded people through the megaservers phasing technology. Things like age group, PVE or PVP bias.

Is this still going in for release? Because I think it's a brilliant idea and I haven't really been able to find any mention of it and the video is from 2012.

I loved that idea; unfortunately, I haven't heard if it's still in or not. I hope it is.

Its out, I can't remember where I read/watched it but its out sadly.

Well that's very disappointing, I guess they're leaving it up to guilds to organise.

Such a shame, it made a lot of sense. I wonder what factors led to it being cut.

Totally speculation, but my guess is that there are already a lot of constraints involved in deciding who goes in what layer, using friends lists, guild, group, and how many people are already in the layer... the most important criterion, I think, is that the world seem neither empty nor too crowded. Satisfying a whole extra bunch of constraints from the questionnaire gets computationally complex and expensive, and if the calculation happens a lot (as I suspect... when fast traveling for instance), it could impact performance.