“as a sample”
And decisions are made based on those samples.
If you feel represented by them, well, that is up to you. I don’t.
I am just sorry that this community has done everything they could to drive away devs from the conversation with us that we used to have in the past because whenever they would respond to a certain topic later, they would’ve been bombarded by questions totally unrelated to what they just answered.
Also not true.
pfft, They’ve been saying that since WotLK. It’s a publicity stunt.
Blizz has no intentions of communicating anything that isn’t carefully selected and pitched with as much slant, in their favor, as possible.
And as little info as possible
Isn’t it? There has been 1 blue post in the CC forums in the last 30 days. GD has had more than that this week alone.
Here’s the link to the 1 blue post if you’re wondering…it’s from 11 days ago.
I don’t see a real serious effort. That whole infrastructure that facilitated the interaction between Blizzard and the players has been purposefully dismantled, and all I see now is a few token attempts at outreach. Those that try, I believe are making an honest effort, but the system now from the forums to tech support, is designed to avoid and impede personal communication between players and staff.
Maybe the reason there are less posts from devs on CC forum could indicate development cycle (too busy) or the constantly cycle jerking of the CC members with their inflated egos trying to push ideas / suggestions that belong only to them.
The only single CC member that ever asked anyone (seriously) about users feedback was Prosident, who ended up being expelled from the CC lmao over a non-issue.
Not sure if anyone else noticed… but they used to have frequent “dev sit-downs” with random streamers a few years ago - but I don’t remember any such 1-on-1 “sit-down” interview recently?
I’m talking about those 40-60 minute interviews where there’s a good back-and-forth discussion and sometimes the streamer would even “pass along” a few questions from the chat
Sometimes “the head honcho” ion himself would appear and do the 1-on-1 interview himself
When they have something coming up that players will get excited about, they tell players. No news is not good news. And since this is the internet, everything is not as it seems.
I suspect that is the root of much of your frustration. I know you also disregard the argument of people flaming them, but really, I’m not sure how much I would engage the community as an employee. I’d need therapy. People don’t deserve to be abused like that just because they were picked as spokesperson.
I’m never sure what I think of the CC. I think it’s an interesting concept, but… (so many buts). Which goes along with this:
I think the streamers are more in touch with what the players are asking than the CC. They’ll ask what their viewers want (cuz they want viewers to keep watching) and what bliz allows.
In no way is this, nor was it ever, a democracy. Thankfully.
I guess for me, I don’t feel Bliz owes us much of this. They are communicating more than they used to. Defining what issues are and aren’t important is actually somewhat rough in this kind of community. Because people are complaining on the forum? That’s the same few dozen people, for example. Also
So much of this. Just because Bliz disagrees or implements something else, doesn’t mean they’re not listening. It means they didn’t agree. They’ve said before, they do read the forums. They send us here for suggestions.
I’m yet to see a Community council member that isn’t boot licking blizzard in every second post