Shadowlands seems to be the only expansion I can remember where MVPs new and old are out in droves in the forums.
Some defending blizzard blindly against the forum goers, some actually taking what we say in strife.
Could actual MVPs be Devs on Alt characters reading forums, replying, without having that huge stigma a Blue gets when posting.
I’ve never seen so many MVPs in forums ever till Shadowlands.
Maybe?? as they can be in any profession and be an MVP. Is this about that laughing Metro train ?? cause that guy from what I know is a streamer.
I’ve just never seen so many MVPs at once in the forums, just thought maybe they could be Devs. Well some of them.
what happened in Shadowlands is WoW grew a little and the grandpas of the olden days are not giving a chance to the new system, constantly using their brown-colored glasses to each post.
I’m happy to embrace this new direction as it echoes of very old basic MMO concepts like RISK, and quite honestly, it’s nice not being the one left behind for once and seeing it happen to others.
you’ll survive and adapt or you’ll move on. not every game’s for everyone. We felt the same way when LFR was introduced and 10man raiding was made equal to 25man as you do now.
No.
MVPs are no different than any other player, they get no special privileges, and they are not required to defend Blizzard at every turn. Some MVPs have been critical of Blizzard in the past. Some have even renounced their MVP status over disagreements they’ve had with Blizzard.
Take off the tinfoil buddy.
GET OUT! WHO?! LMAO That guy is sooo condescending.
no they’re not
Dang it pepino, now they’re on to us. Guess we’ll have to wait for Tupak’s alt.
I think I know who you’re talking about! Teehee
But no, they’re not. I know someone that became an MVP and he’s def not a dev.
I am a developer at a company that isn’t a gaming company and as far as I am aware, it is not really encouraged for employees in our role to act on behalf of the company in any capacity whether implied or explicit. Unless it’s in their role… which usually for a developer it wouldn’t be. But the culture at Blizzard may be totally different, I have no insights to offer, but professionally speaking it is doubtful that a developer would engage in some sort of consumer facing capacity… but once again I could be wildly beyond my depth here, I have no experience as a developer in the gaming industry. The one role that comes to mind that I see pop up in the valley here is pre sales engineer - but this is more of a b2b role and not a directly public facing / consumer facing role. More of like a mediator between engineering departments, so to speak, with emphasis on sales. Can’t really think of any other developer role that interfaces with the public, off of the top of my head at least.
No, you’re probably 83.24% correct. It would be hard day in and day out to be incognito all the time and not eventually blow up at someone’s ignorance, arrogance or negativity.
I bet they lurk at best, but honestly they probably just steer clear of the forums. The MVPs probably belong to the secret forums and send out links to decent info though.
There are gems here, but it takes a lot of sifting through the bad.
Yea, he is a condescending expletive, with the Sorry You’re misunderstanding me you idiot tone…
No Mvps for the most part are useless. That whole program should’ve been scrapped
iirc they are friends with mods and can call on them. Hence why an ex mvp who “stepped down” because they couldn’t troll would oddly get people banned yet they could break all the rules they wanted.
No, they can’t.
They get no special privileges at all for being an MVP.
The only thing you get is green text. That’s it.
That particular case was unique because the MVP actually knew a Blizzard employee and used that friendship, independent of their MVP status, to get favours. You can be friends with a Blizzard employee without being an MVP and theoretically, the same thing could happen extremely easily.