We are talking about both. Encouraging devs to praise their company as “just another player” allows marketing specialists to work less, this saving company money, that otherwise they would have to pay them.
Or, in more simple terms, why not just make same people working for you do extra work for less, than it would cost you to hire someone to do it?
I guess not. I think they have better to do to post on the forums.
Ok, well, actual game developers (devs) develop the game. Marketing is a different department, usually mostly unassosciated to the devs. Marketing people might come on here occasionally in disguise, who knows. No games company i’ve seen pays devs more to post on forums.
The devs are generally experts in their specific field. They’re paid to be good at, say, making weapon models and not good at talking to forum people. They give high value when they’re doing what they’re good at and very low value when doing other stuff. From a financial standpoint, it would make way more sense for marketing to outsource fake forum posters to a cheaper external source, like the many twitter bots you see. Think of it like having call centers in foreign countries where the minimum wage is lower.
But, as i said, there are valid reasons why actual game devs would come on here.
They better not, as their “bright ideas” mostly cause misery and destruction.
Update notes shouldn’t be like Game of Thrones, where you guess, which character got murdered this time.
That’s the point - you ignore the actual ideas and just figure out what the problem they’re trying to solve is, then fix it properly.
Their definition of problem seems to be completely different from one of players.
Thats why you talk to lots of them
And then still do as you want, and then wonder, why game is a mess.
Yes, developers should collect feedback and put it to good use, but they don’t seem to be doing it.
No, they see the problems people are facing and try to solve them. They dont do what people say or pick a side. Their actual skill in solving those problems is a different thing.
They probably play Valorant or Paladins in their free time.
With how they adjust unique heroes, they already picked a side.
Which is unfortunate for me, as well as any other players playing “unpopular” and “annoying” heroes, that would be disfigured and dismembered, as result.
What alternative method do you suggest?
Sounds to me like you’re one of the many peoples giving problems to the devs.
To stop listening to majority, when it comes to tweaking heroes said majority doesn’t play.
And maybe I am giving them problems, because their goal is to make sure I don’t get to have fun, yet I still manage to get fun.
It’s weird pattern of Blizzard, that whenever they encounter problem, their tendency is to make it worse.
If the majority say “there’s a problem with this hero” then there’s a problem with that hero.
If you’re not having fun, dont play. You’re not the victim here. TBH, your negativity is something they’d just ignore.
They don’t, since I still manage to make sure, that majority doesn’t get to have fun at my expense.
Majority knows nothing and easily influenced by streamers and other “influencers”, so listening to them doesn’t do game any good.
And it’s not negativity, it’s experience from Overwatch in general - whenever I get to have fun, developers go “no, you aren’t supposed to” and mess up game yet again. It’s probably first game I played, where developers are literally trying to make game not fun for you.
What part of this is an argument that devs dont post on the forums?
It’s answer to your previous post.
MEEEE I swear to god some of these posters LOVE to gaslight lmao
Ok, well, you got completely off track and werent even talking about that anymore.
they fired those back in 2019