You are right MVPs have to pick a posting char and stick to that, with rare exceptions. It used to be that once you were flagged green, every single Blizzard forum showed you as green and you could not change it. All chars too.
The forum software changed in 2018. Permissions for the WoW forums are now set by the groups you belong to which are handled at the Character level. A character can be part of more than one group such as being part of Trust Level 0, 1, 2, and 3. Being part of various Beta groups that grants posting access, etc.
Some things such as titles and text color are also set there. They switched me to the CC group for posting permissions but I am still a CS/TS, WoW, etc MVP.
I THINK to fix it they are going to have to make a custom group for anyone who is both CC and MVP to keep the text green and fix the title to show both. I would gather that is not a priority right now for the forum software folks.
Yes, or on the relevant sub forum. That is really the only means to have direct input. It is also a means for any CC members who are interested in that topic to discuss it with you. It might improve the quality of GD if people actually did that and gave constructive feedback instead of just derailing threads or attacking people.
It is not ideal, but start with that and if it gets to be a major issue I can talk to the CMs about getting a sub forum set up maybe.
Posting on an alt to show you that the flagging is per char in WoW. On the other Blizz forums the flagging and groups are at the Bnet account level. Anyone who does not want their main bothered can select the CC posting alt they want to use and only use it there. They could post here on GD under a diff alt name for privacy.
I opted to use Mirasol the MVP version for transparency instead of making a new alt to āhideā roles. Although that might have made the group permissions easier!
you mean you canāt tell already? I spent 5 minutes on there and I could tell that. Blizzard has no intention of actually trying to improve the game based on the people they picked. That is a feel good/PR exercise.
Have there any europeans been invited yet? Right now Iāve got the feeling that itās just players with an active US-account, which would be extremely disappointing and raise the question why thereās been choice of language/region in the application sheet.
Edit: Ah, I think Iāve found one! Thatās something.
If they review some of the OPs posts they may see how condescending he is to dissenting opinions. Perfect candidate for the council, since the devs of blizzard often blame the players for their failures and not seeing their āgenius.ā
Which hasnāt been updated since December 2019 according to the site banner. Which would correspond approximately with the point when Blizz changed the API license to basically make such sites impossible to run without violating the rules. So I wouldnāt count that as accurate given the major shifts in population and events since that point.
Thereās a difference between, and this seems to be a difficult concept for these forums, people who criticise WoW/Blizzard, and people who just doomsay.
Exactly. I am not sure how some people have concluded that feedback is not negative or critical unless it is laced with profanity and personal insults.
That is the worst way ever to get anyone to listen or consider your ideas and point of view. I would have gotten fired from work for presenting feedback that way. At home as a kid, punished. Same went for school. Why people think the outrage model would make a GOOD Council member is beyond me. It works for clicks on videos, not for getting anything real accomplished.
People can be critical AND still act like respectful adults.
It really depends on the point of view. Iām super casual but I have likely more knowledge about the game, the lore, the mechanics and very special interest items/titles and so on than you. The problem with the term ācasualā is simply meant to divide the non-raiders from the raiders. Raiders are meant to be the āend gameā but in reality itās just one of many possible end goals you can approach.
For me, WoW casuals are the people who play one month and come back during the next patch.
They do this because of their bad image, the internal leaks on twitter and the overall sentiment of them being called untrustworthy, liar, manipulators and out of touch. And this still doesnāt include the scandals, the developerās high ground attitude and faction bias they openly show. They even started to address the game as āHorde and Allianceā while it correctly should be labelled as āAlliance and the Hordeā
we shouldnāt have to go through other players or be at other players mercy for direct input.
some people on that council have never made a thread about the game that I can recall - why are they there, there should be no need for forum police in that section.
In part I agree but I wonder if the devs arenāt getting heat from upstairs about dwindling subs and this is a way to make it sound like they actually care about the situation, i.e. they can claim - look we made a council to get input about what works in the game.
