Why they chose to post it on X instead of on their OWN forum is beyond me. I guess this is why they think they’re communicating when they’re not, but if you’re interested, google “Rod Fergesson non binding poll”, find his twitter/x account which should be the first link on google, and I think the vote is like the 2nd or 3rd post down. More people need to get involved in this no matter which way you lean on it. Blizzard needs to see how many people they just alienated.
Oddly, he acknowledges they’re broken so why it’s even a question I’m not sure…I guess this is just the level of WTF we’re dealing with now. So whatever. Lets play their game. Go vote.
I’m glad there’s a split. Hopefully they learn from it that they can’t afford to alienate almost 40% of their playerbase every season. They wont have much of a playerbase left in a few seasons if they do that continuously.
perhaps let me explain it to you this way. like less than 1% of the playerbase interacts with these forums. where x is a huge social media platform that allows them to interact with a much larger portion of their playerbase. that is why they would use x and not the forums. why ask the whiniest 1% of the playerbase when they can get feedback from the masses?
Exactly. I pointed that out. It’s ironic that he says they won’t break the other classes, which insinuates that he knows they’re broken. Like I said, this is the level of WTF we’re dealing with. This is someone who someone in charge of making decisions for a big company. Even more funny is someone else looked at this guy and agreed, then hired him to do it.
Because less than 0.1% knows company figureheads by name. You’re saying they’re commuicating to the masses this way, but you’re wrong. Most people don’t follow social media platforms to find critical gaming opinions. As evidenced in the poll that has only like 10k votes…unless you’re saying that this game only has about 10k players?
The smartest way would be to launch a prompt in battle.net with a link taking players to where vote is. But they didn’t even do that. This was a stunt to make people say they tried to communicate. It’s bogus. But play along anyways.
i can look through the past 100 threads in this forum and find less than 500 posters. i dont know the actual count of the playerbase, but even with only 10k respondents on x that is much better than it would have done here
So what you’re saying is, even blizzard doesn’t believe in their OWN product, and since they have better turnout using someone else’s services, we should just use another service? Cool. Could you imagine the amount of people that would implode if apple specifically directed their tech communication through geek squad for IT support? Where has common sense gone. This “business practice” (or rather lack thereof) is so diluted it hurts. I’m sure it has nothing to do with Elon Musk playing d4 and actually being held up as a mantle piece of advertising for the game/company, right? Nothing to do with the partnership with x…
You’ve lost sight of what’s actually good for game health to the marketing scheme they lead you into believing good man.
Not every player is from the USA. There are countries where people do not use x, but by common sense everyone knows to come to the official forum for information.
63% of the poll has voted to leave the class the way it is.
Rod goes on to say, “a class that’s only been out for 3 weeks is going to have some issues that need to fixed, and the player base not rolling an SB just need to git good.”
you dont seem to understand. they dont direct IT or customer service related issues to X as your ignorant post suggests. they are engaging with the playerbase. most dev studios, including rivals GGG and EHG, utilize the most popular social media platforms to reach their playerbase, not their forums. the forums are for us and for getting official information like patch notes and hotfixes. there are also the bug report forums and technical help forums. it is common sense to use widely used social media platforms to interact with wider audiences. but i guess common sense isnt that common…
Am I the only who finds it more than a little strange that the director of a major gaming studio is using a Twitter poll to decide if they should actually fix their product?
Like he’s so spineless that he’s willing to abandon any creative vision they had for the season, and abdicate that responsibility to the twitter crowd?
What the hell even is this company right now…
Like release a product where one class is doing a billion times more damage than another, totally destroy whatever balance you intended for the game, the season, and the character, then go check with twitter to see if it’s all working out.
If he actually wanted feedback why not prompt it in game?
I don’t use Twitter but I understand why they do. It’s a much wider audience for one and it’s not packed full of the doom and gloom crowd that crap on everything all the time.
