Look up the podcast ‘countdown to classic’ where the host interviews the lead dev.
Very eye opening and that hour of conversation is more info than we’ve gotten here since the inception of classic. It gives you a perspective on where TBC fits on their priority list. For example, he claims that free transfers pull man power from other important areas. Go listen around 24 minutes. “It’s work to set those up”. Apparently it also pulls people from other important areas. Lol.
retail is the same way. that post u linked is 16 days old. IMO there should be atleast 1 blue post daily or every 2 days. At least showing community engagement.
There’s only so much that said members are allowed to post. Good examples are Ythisens and Xelnath, CMs for Paladin and Warlock respectively.
Both, before being being laid off, really started to talk with their community and made good changes to problems and were the reasons each respective class was so fun during those times. (MoP Warlock and Legion Paladin)
Not surprised with these two as examples that CMs wouldn’t want to get too friendly/talkative else they might also being thrown under the bus during lay offs.
The reason the CM doesn’t want to interact with this forum is because its 99% anti blizzard sentiment, either by right or wrong, people want immediate answers to their specific problem and will spam @ kaivax in a completely unrelated thread trying to get answers about something he doesn’t have the answers to. The forum is a shark tank, blizzard only post here to confirm concrete plans, anything else and they’d be devoured.
I agree they go radio silent for too long but its not hard to see why. Its clearly some sort of policy they have within the company and not just “meh i don’t feel like posting”, posting things that people don’t want to hear or isn’t an immediate answer to their problem is likely to incite these forums rather than solve anything. The posts are probably more rehearsed than hamlet by now.
Because anytime they post anything they get bombarded with disrespect, the CM’s didn’t do anything to us and are only messengers but since they’re the voice of the company to the players people only have that CM to vent their feelings to.