The worst part is that some pretty important things–like what is in development --as posted recently, is something that would make sense to post on the forums.
A lot of the posts on Reddit (as I understand) are more responses to scenarios/thoughts/discussion. I would love to have more of those here–but I understand those things being “spur of the moment”.
But “this is what we’re working on, and planing to add to the game” is something that SOLIDLY deserves a post here. Or even in the News portal! Like they did with some of the things being worked on around ranked.
You know what would make lots of sense?
To post this like some other roadmap things posted:
You know, do what should be a simple thing to keep the whole community (Well, I am sure there are bubbles outside of official forums and reddit) informed.
I have absolutely no issue with Reddit being used–as Tydal said:
this is a game I’ve spent a good chunk of money on, probably some $500 or so in total, mostly on stims, along with bundles over the years for skins.
Expecting a baseline level of communication on the only place the official HotS websites links to for discussion is a very low ask.
And if they want to make it reddit, it’s really simple, do what Starcraft 2 website does. Where under “community” it has links to: 1. forums (official forums) 2. TeamLiquid (TeamLiquid was the place for Starcraft 1 for years, jumped on SC2) 3. Reddit (look! We use reddit, so we link reddit!) 4. Grandermaster leaderboards (meh)
If you want reddit to be the official place of communication LINK TO IT ON YOUR WEBSITE.