I think the devs takes notes from the forums:
I mentioned we don’t have a crossbow and flamethrower in game and saw flamethrower on the latest dev AMA. Next hero has a crossbow.
I suggested a slight Dva nerf (back when she was OP) which was done in game.
I suggested they sponsor streamers to bring players back, then they really did it during the Spotlight event.
What makes you think the devs read or don’t read what we write?
I don’t believe the dev team reads anything here directly. Someone from community management keeps an eye on what’s going on here and may summarize recurring threads or topics, but that’s about it.
A year or so ago a member of the Blizzard team had said they consider the forums to be a place of negativity so I doubt they look at it.
I was literally told by a now staff member that they think we are too negative and not important.
Yeah, 5 minutes every month at the end of the meeting on a Friday afternoon, one guy lists the top ten most popular forum posts. Nobody in the meeting ever has (serious) questions or comments.
Given most of what the community want is ignored and what youtubers want is worshiped , the answer is no.
This is possible.
So be careful what you write, it may come true like some of my suggestions.
It’s kind of sad too because generally, the criticisms I see get the most traction on here are the ones I see on YouTube, Steam, Reddit, etc.
It’s just the Forums tends to make negativity float to the surface more than the other platforms do.
Maybe. It could also be that people on the forums have similar ideas to people on Reddit, Twitter/X and YouTube.
Flamethrower has been an idea way back since before Wrecking Ball released. He was supposed to have one but it wasn’t “cool enough” and was incredibly jank.
Wow. I saw big dark rainclouds above my head and proclaimed that it would soon rain.
Again, this much is obvious. MR was taking streamers away because streamers follow the money. Best way to bring them back temporarily is to pay them enough for a single stream and show off a bunch of new stuff.
None of these things were influenced by players, let alone the forums.
They just took their third AMA on Reddit since they’ve released OW2. Try and look for the last time any dev wrote anything on the forums. That should tell you exactly how much they respect forumers.
As much as I would like to believe that they check the forums, I know they would never because it’s “too hard” to ignore bad actors and their nonsensical, irrelevant opinions. Reddit conveniently obliterates anything that even remotely could be perceived as negative, so the devs never have to see any opinions they don’t agree with.
They don’t respect you nor any of us for that matter.
no they only read when a new game comes out that dwindles the population to almost dead and u gotta wait 20 mins for a que.
They probably do and they just don’t respond or engage with the forums…
But a Blizzard employee did literally say they view the Forums as being biased towards negativity.
I have a hard time believing they’d read them if that’s how they feel
Sometimes i hope so, others after reading what some people post… my lord i hope they stay well away
I imagine they still read them, they just don’t respond for that reason - it is overly negative. But it does (or at least, should) provide a perspective.
The biggest pain point I have over the “well it’s too much” is that THEY are the reason it’s like this. Out of anywhere that they’d have control this should be it, but they just throw us here to squabble amongst ourselves and washed their hands of it. The only thing that really gets regulated is outright hate speech and even that takes a couple days sometimes.
I think I’d disagree that it’s overly negative. But just personal opinion at that point.
But honestly, it’s bad strategy for a game company to seem like they’re not paying attention, even if they are.
It feels freaking awesome when devs will actually engage with random players and fans
I don’t disagree with that.
With the Overwatch team, every time they say, “we want to communicate more with the community!” - I take that as a, “we’re going to do that a few times and then go back to abandoning that initiative”.
Of course they read the forums.
Do they use your ideas though? No. lol. If they happen to coincide with what changes are made, good for you? It wasn’t because of you though, lol. It was because character x was OP.
Sounds absolutely correct.
If the developers had looked at the forums, they would have made a better game.
I know they don’t like to see negative feedback, but the developers who didn’t listen to the feedback created the negativity.
They got what they deserved.