Sad thing is, that’s actually how it works for a lot of people these days.
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I was very hesitant to reply to this thread, but I want to do the right thing.
I had created a thread on the AMA since I did not see an action from the CM/mod after a few days from the announcement. However, you can see almost no responses. Thus, I am wondering if the community is unaware or how visibility of such posts can be better made to the community. (note view counts)
Note: There is no intention to find fault in any parties, but to find if it is a technical solution to better manage posts visibility?
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Nice to see you tried, but most activity happens here, not in CD. So, for future reference, maybe post here as well. Not giving you a hard time, its not your responsibility to do anything in that regard, just saying 
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I know that Multiplayer is the most popular section. However, I like to try my best to keep contents relevant to it’s own section (a fresh start on new forum).
More importantly, I see that there is functions where we can view posts from multiple sections, but is unclear how Discourse manages the visibility. (Is there further tweaking or reformat from the CM’s side? )
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In all fairness Reddit is the true police. These forums promote much more freedom.
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I understand your reasoning and respect it, then I look at how many posts made here don’t belong and, well, whats one more to the mix?
Posters have their freedom of choice.
If a system is clear and easy to use, more people will probably abide and follow. As mentioned, just like to know if there is a systemic solution.
Some have said it’s because we in these forums are historically “ill behaved”.
Is that the cause or the effect though? I mean, I’m no saint in that regard (trying to be better on the new forums, we’ll see how that goes long term), but to me a lot of it could be prevented with more activity here.
It’s a vicious cycle at this point that requires both them to take some flak and us to stop firing it off.
Very true. But they gotta make the first move in that regard, otherwise every time they (infrequently) post they will get hammered. We have seen it all before, its on them to regain our “trust” before they can realistically expect it to stop.
I do appreciate that Dean is trying, but I’ve seen it too often to believe it will continue for much more than a month.
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Yeah, six posts is a huge commitment.
Jokes aside, most of the flak they get is for not being active. If they did not only show up to promote expansions, things would be better.
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but we have many of those and because the forum has way less users than reddit they stand out too much
their fans aka the players are here on this forum, the OFFICIAL forum
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You, and the entirety of this forum, is such a small percentage of the whole. In fact many of us HERE also use reddit.
I dont think you have a grasp of the scope here.
Perhaps a dumb question… but couldn’t the devs hold the Q&A on Reddit and here simultaneously?
I don’t use Reddit so I don’t understand how the Q&A’s work. Do they just look at all the questions asked, and pick which ones to answer? Is there a user moderator, polling the most popular questions, then asking those? Both situations seem like they could occur here at the same time as a reddit session was happening.
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Indeed many moderators from certain countries (especially from china) asked questions from their playerbase.
So yeah a good way of what you describe would be for a CM to create such a thread here and to transfer the 5-10 most liked questions on reddit.
That d be nice
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probably there are 10+ posters on reddit for every 1 here
I simply do not see any reason why they could not have their primary activity be here while also maintaining strong activity on these other sites. This isn’t rocket science. Have your primary function on the official forum/site and then push it out to Twitter, Reddit, or any other number of social media sites.
Social media sites like Twitter and Reddit are TOOLS in a toolbox. The official company social media site should be the TOOLBOX that the tools originate from.
From a “how things should be” point of view I agree and would love to see all social media announcements actually find a base on here and the blog, but from a “what leads to the most exposure, marketing potential and therefore profit potential with the least amount of time/effort sunk into typing stuff on the internet” perspective, Reddit and Twitter offer exponentially more of the latter than a dedicated site. Social media sites aren’t just tools of the same calibur as a personal site, they’re gateways many multiple times larger than an ‘official site’ that provide far greater exposure per word to a broader audience.
It will always be more efficient to meet the people where they are than to try and pull what will only ever be a portion of that audience into your own court to talk about game stuff.
Personally, I see this as something of a sign of the times and what the gaming industry at large has become. Back in the day before social media, if you thought a game was cool you played it and maybe looked up it’s official website (that might be advertised here or there) to get all official information/updates because creating their own website was pretty much the only way for developers to communicate with their players.
Nowadays, social media sites like Reddit provide instant access to take your communications to a broader audience, rather than waiting for them to come to your website. No more casting out nets, no more hoping that more than 0.001% of your playerbase decides to visit your site because so many more of them are already on Reddit. And with so much ‘big money’ from modern investors on the line, every single action you take everywhere gets put through the “how does this stand to profit the company?” filter.
As to why not do both? Resources (time is a resource) spent VS resources received (see the profitability of any and all actions comment). Everyone on this forum could quit entirely and it wouldn’t even be a drop in the olympic-sized swimming pool that is Reddit.
The worst thing of all is how much I hate typing this, because while I believe it to be true I still very very much prefer the format of official in-house platforms for community-building and discussion.
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