Especially the old forums, he had probably over 1000 posts. He would post in a lot of different topics, and even some of the troll ones every week. But I just checked the dev tracker, and his last post was May 1st. And now it feels like weâll be lucky to see him maybe once a month. Anyone else miss the dev communication here?
I also miss when Geoff would read balance feedback threads and share his thoughts on the subject. He would respond his latest thoughts in terms of buffing or nerfing heroes in the roster.
Yea itâs almost like the threads calling for them being fired and telling them they donât know how to do their job and telling them to fix their game without saying the problem or how to fix it makes them not want to come here.
Honestly, even if people want to use the whole âToxic forums bullied the poor devs awayâ excuse, this is why many (if not most) games have a community manager. Keeps heat off the devs while keeping the communication lines open and the CM can weed out the most useful feedback.
The forums are also not the only place they could communicate on (Plenty of devs use Reddit, other Blizzard Devs amongst them and they could always tweet more) and even the developer update videos have been scarce these days. And theyâve even been totally silent on potentially technical issues like the whole CTF disappearing from Arcadeâs rotation during LNY thing.
I just really donât see there being a legitimate excuse for their silence and community de-attachment besides them simply having nothing positive to share.