You can have whatever opinion you want but this is the only way to effectively communicate with the community, at least in terms of specific topics
Otherwise they can only ever really do things like doing a poll to gague people’s interests and views on certain activities:
Sorry but with how us as a community/playerbase of Blizzard’s games interact with information provided … there’s no reason to have effective community communication of these forums
The reason Ghostcrawler quit after having lost his mind over how incredible toxic and persistently stupid folks were on these forums hasn’t changed
A few years back after Blizzard said that they wanted to communicate better and provide more clear information, they did that, and folks lost their minds at them for communicating information to them
Specifically when they release their charity pet and that legally they are required to have an upper limit to it, one that Blizzard has never reached, yet folks lost their mind
There’s plenty of other examples of this from over the years and they ain’t ever going to stop - as long as we as a community don’t stop, the silence will continue because its completely pointless to actually address people who choose ignorance over listening to what folks are actually saying
What we have is the remnants of when folks actually cared about these forums and wanted to post things that they cared about - not post memes and misuse terminology to be as edgy as possible without saying something explicitly enough that they get their rights to post on the forums suspended
Communication has gone backwards … because as a community we MAKE it go backwards - not everyone of course, and there’s plenty of nice, informative, and wholesome people on these forums; but that isn’t the norm
The only reason I suspect why the forums haven’t shut down is because the PR damage from doing that probably would cause real issues with the game, despite that these forums are completely devoid of usefulness as it is
When developers go looking for information, they go to content creators and streamers and not to these forums for a reason - think about that for a moment
Agreed, although we are disappointed in different areas (and people) I’m pretty sure