To give some credit, I think this forum contributes to the success of the game.
Mods are pretty relaxed. Its use of media (images/video) is limited so you don’t get meme idiocy. If they do ban people you get unbanned after a while.
It seems something trivial…a forum. Well, most game developers can’t even be bothered to put up a forum nowadays. (no, Reddit isn’t a forum, it is a meme trash site).
Sure, developers pretend we don’t exist, but it’s still better than having nothing.
Just being able to talk on the forum about a game is a novelty nowadays.
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It’s not much better than nothing, and a lot worse than what this place used to be before they fired 800 people because record profits weren’t record enough. One of those 800 was the last person at Blizzard who gave a damn.
This place is wholly irrelevant, now, sadly.
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This place is so irrelevant to the devs that in one of his AMAs, iksar literally said “I wish there were some forum where I could speak directly with the players, sadly no such place exists”.
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This is an interesting thread.
It is pretty much my belief that game developers should NOT listen to the actual players, at least not from a development / game improvement kind of way.
I base this mostly on playing games, and being avidly on forums about them for the past 18 years.
It is my belief that actually listening to the players of my two favourite games: World of Warcraft and Blacklight: Retribution, caused the downfall of both of these games.
I will be back for more drame if this thread actually gets some traction.
Care to elaborate on what aspects they listened to in wow that ruined it?
I never spent any time on the wow forums because the friendship is magic thread was more active than the actual game topics.
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Well I quit wow in 2012 or so, and truth be told the forums were a great place to be in the first 2-3 years after its inception.
I believe that getting rid of all the ‘chores’ was one thing that made the game suck. Go to a specific space in the world to craft something special, needing a friendly alchemist to transmute your stuff (or pay them for it) etc made it worthwile. Just -be an engineer- to avoid the clunky flightpathing made it worthwile. Remembering good tanks and befriending them made it worthwile. The effort of finding a good group of people to play with again made it worthwile. The concept of having sucky talent points in your tree just to get somewhere made it worthwile. Planning your farming and quests made it worth wile. And so.
15 years forward: want something - here you have it. wanna go somewhere - you are already there. Want a group: join the queue and dont talk to anyone the whole dungeon.
I guess you get the idea.
He’s not wrong. This place isn’t even close to representing the player base. This is a salt mine. It deserves to be ignored.
https://youtu.be/41llBu0c2fU
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I think there was a balance to be had here and they missed, imo. I don’t think hunters need to feed pets to keep them from running away and have different foods for each one, but making them have and use ammunition made lots of sense.
This is what turned me off. Raid finder sucks. All the welfare epics were too much. There was not honor or prestige in raid achievements, and that was pretty much the whole reason the game was fun to me.
How did I miss this eyeroll thread???
These forums sooooo not healthy.
What’s wrong with memes? If it’s funny I’ll enjoy it. Would be a great balance to the grief and anger.
/shrug
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