Agreed and that is a good point. It definitely feels like a disconnect between what players perceive as issues and needs vs what the devs have been discussing. It’s like their focus is on the leveling campaign range, while the community in forums is more around post campaign and lack of end game mixed with repetitive QoL issues.
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You wouldn’t because every post you make is a shilling debut for the game and company. 10/10. Forum is perfect. Everyone who has any criticism is terrible. Yeah, we get it.
Now please tell me what position you have at Blizzard. I do hope you are at least getting paid for these sad attempts.
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Unironically seeing some serious shilling and suspecting that some people here are paid to post and defend the product and try to quash dissent.
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Yep, especially by those who have a long-standing reputation for buddying up to CM’s and devs for years to no end.
Then they say “oh they’re so passionate for their games”.
Just lol. It’s clear those people have NOT played D4, ever, because from top to bottom D4 is the EPITOMY of “NO passion”.
D4 at this point is just in a complete shambles all round everything stinks about it.
I’m going to start trolling them on their personal accounts though since they lack the PR and business skills to keep that separate.
While I’m partially inclined to agree with this, some people really are that delusional.
Community managers are just corporate brown nosers. They worked in the past when Blizzard games were made by gamers, now they’re made by investors and pushed by clowns. They’re the kind of people who hype their nonimportance way too much. They don’t do anything for this community.
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There was a time and a day when companies like Blizzard where ran by gamers and the decisions were based upon things like “will this be fun?” and “Does the game make you want to keep playing?”
Today the first question and last question is “How will we monetize this.”
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Blizzard devs (specifically WoW team) stated yrs ago in a Q&A they do not use their own forums as they are a mess & reddit/twitter are easier to manage & organize/reply to stuff.
the forums are basically for players not the team…stupid but its how it is sadly.
Sounds like something only a reddit or twitter user would say.
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Right, it’s way less delusional to post on here about Blizzard devs like you have some weird parasocial relationship and they owe you a discussion.
They don’t owe you anything. They could easily never do or say anything ever again and be considered incredibly successful by their management for pumping out a game that’s cashed in hundreds of millions of sales in just a few days.
The game absolutely has problems, and there are many many features that should just have not shipped as is. There are too many features that are/were so glaringly unfinished or poorly designed, that it’s almost like “what were you thinking?” But that reeks of executive pressure of tight timelines, and that’s not something you can wholly blame the devs for.
So yes, I will absolutely disagree with a bunch of cringe forum dwellers for having this neurotic obsession with hating this game to the point where they project their anger at some guy whose job it is to just read your garbage takes all day. I’m able to completely disagree with entire philosophies driving decisions in the game and people berating the devs for it like they’re your publicly elected representatives. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Just because his social media is unprofessional doesn’t mean he isn’t doing a great job.
This is what society has become though. Ten years ago putting your phone number public was a big fail, nowadays if you don’t have a phone number public is considered weird aka “you have something to hide?”
It’s more of a social issue than a personal issue.
Not defending this culture, I am more private too and don’t have everything public and try to keep work “work” and private “private” - which in my opinion is a think our society is now lacking.
In the end it will all come down to some community manager quitting because of burn out. He wouldn’t be the first and won’t be the last and this is not only a problem in this field.
90% of a managers job is too stay healthy and learn to have a healthy work life balance.
And yes, even if you love your job and are passionate about everything - having a private life and having work at a good distance is always the better option. Life is more than that.
Sadly most people aren’t educated enough. This is indeed something Blizzard should adress and school the community managers.
Blizzard has been out of touch on social media for a long time if you were previously an OW enjoyer like myself.
They have virtually no idea how to manage a community or communicate in an effective way.
To be fair, most major games don’t even have forums outside of Tech Support these days… so this is probably a dying breed of forum users.
That’s an awfully long bootlicking response I stopped reading at “they don’t owe you anything”.
You see, I know you may be paid to disagree or maybe you got tricked, but there is this thing we exchanged for this. It’s called MONEY.
We paid money. We get to discuss the game with the creator. :^) I know you’ll probably type up a big response. Don’t bother. I disagree therefor you are wrong.
Community managers and MVPs are always weird people. It takes a special kind of person to be a clown for investors of a corporation. You guys aren’t here to represent us, you’re the shadiest characters in this story.
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They are awfully good at being petulant and passive aggressive in defending their travesty.
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perhaps, but its devs own statement so its true regardless ;/
they really need take a page from RIOT’s forums. its so much more manageable for devs/community managers to track stuff.
There’s nothing wrong with these forums?
I don’t know what you do for a living, but as VP RnD for a big software company i’d like to point out that your statement has no grasp on reality unless their entire team consists of incompetent monkeys.
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You know you hired the wrong person for a PC game when his first statement is “fitness lover” and not smth like “basement dweller”. Who would have known
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