Yeah I noticed and deleted while you were typing haha
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This is my issue with it. Blizzard chose who would be on the council, and according to at least one “community council” member the people represent themselves, not a segment of the community. This negates the entire word "Community ".
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Do you mind opening a topic about this in the council subforum?
Would really appreciate it.
So…
The CC was lip service?
That’s disheartening if unsurprising. Why even use the word “community”?
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Probably because it’s comprised of members of the community? It’s a council that consists of members of the community.
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I suppose.
But if they’re under no obligation to represent the community, it’s a disingenuous name for the council.
I’m just trying to understand. I haven’t been following the council much and I had assumptions that seem to be incorrect. Assumptions effected by a name like “Community Council”.
Guess that’s on me and my common usage understanding of English.
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I can feel that, I had thought the same thing when I came back to the forums
That’s me. Recently bought 30 days when my other game was in a patch day and I had an itch to do ANYthing in an MMO…
I think I bought a month around last Dec too. Love that winterveil ambiance.
(I’ve logged in three times on those two month-long subs… Game is so weird and lonely now… like a dead mall or something.)
It is only a feel good thing.
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Your common usage understanding of English only goes so far when it comes to Blizzard, they have lawyers who can make anything sound like anything. 
It’s pretty vague. And by the way, that was only my interpretation of it and not official. In any official statement about the Community Council they have only ever really said that they were inviting players of all kinds to a special discussion. I think that people just assumed they were meant to be representatives.
I don’t know if I’ve missed any “live chats” but I wonder when the next one is.
I don’t see any harm in that. Personally, I have always maintained that a “community” effort is all fine and dandy, but the responsibility for better communication falls on Blizzard, as it always has. Trying to be on the fence about it but when I heard about it I assumed it was just a PR move.
I try not to treat CC members I see any differently than other posters. Gold text doesn’t mean much. I don’t put much stock in what they say in GD (with the exception of maybe Mirasol because she is informative) and I don’t expect them to share my opinions and speak on my behalf when I didn’t vote for them.
One good thing about the CC forum is that it does have a few topics that I can relate to or agree with or talks about things I’d like to see, without all the extra hyperbole, personal in-fighting, and drama. Not that I mind that stuff, but if Blizzard and their Community Managers are actually trying to get feedback from the forums, they shouldn’t have to suffer through… us being us? The CC forum is nice and clean. Best thing about it, imo.
Yeah. I should have too. Sometimes I tuck my cynicism into my pants and faulty assumptions occur.
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And there’s where I find it to be an exercise in rhetorical self pleasure. Blizzard won’t get good information if the entire community is not represented. And there appears to be no representation required of CC members.
So… [hand wanking motion]
Talk is fine, but it’s cheap. I’m tired of Blizzard’s cheapness.
If we need to look through a grand picture window to see the size of the problem, folks are rightly peeved at Blizzard peering through a key hole.
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You mean the CC giving “constructive” feedback such as this:
“Are the Drak’thyr going to be locked to the core 5 dragonflight colors? Or will we have options like purple, pink, etc.?”
" I’m honestly dreading the moment when we get something new and I’d have to delete one of my characters just to make room."
Posts like these prove my point on my earlier post about how the CC is more concerned about their wants/needs rather than the community’s.
Should there be more characters slots? Absolutely but there are more important things they can be asking about right now and adding more colors to dragon flights isn’t one of those.
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Nah the CC forums is just GD with Orange text, some of the replies they make don’t feel like they are representing anybody other than themselves. After what happened to Prosident I won’t be surprised if some of them are even sacred to share their opinion
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I must have missed something somewhere. What happened to them?
He is the world record holder of the fastest CC ban ever 
. He said a few choice words that was taken out of context and was posted on Twitter.
Since CC is also about PR, Blizz didn’t want any negatives and axed him .
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Haven’t been in a while and low and behold…
I thread I can get behind. The target dummies one.
Just mind boggling how those have been thrown in. They serve a functional purpose but it seems like they have been putting them in as decorations and in a manner that negates their purpose.
Whoops. He’s better off not being there then.
Explain how the game isn’t already for everyone AND accessible, please.