I may be speaking for myself here but I can’t be the only one feeling like every class should have a Dev that interacts with us on our forums.
Take mage for example. NA/EU forums we have been quite discontent for awhile now posting constant feedback and are left in radio silence.
There is zero interaction from Blizzard devs or ways to interact with them. Whether you go on twitter (which you shouldn’t have to) or any official Blizzard forum you might as well be shouting into a void. I feel like it shouldn’t be this hard to communicate in 2023.
I would personally feel better if I knew the guy making adjustments played a mage the way most of us do. Whether in PVE/PVP and was steering the ship in right direction.
“Hey we are working on this and that” “We hear you we got some big changes planned”
“We are aware this talent is dead and were looking to fix it”
Anything would suffice. We’ve been shouting into a void for months and sometimes it feels the game is running on a skeleton crew and we the players and class mains don’t have a voice.
Would be nice to know there is someone there working on it that actually cares. As a mage main I feel awfully forsaken these days.
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i don’t think that’s necessary - these people are very busy…your class dev probably has a number of other things to work on in-game too.
they dont’ ghost us anymore, which is nice…but they have stopped posting on the community council though, so hopefully that will resume someday.
anyways, i am satisfied with dev notes tbh. as long as they give us a few sentences as to why they changed or added something, that’s good enough for me…when they don’t add those to significant changes, it is kind of annoying though 
oh, i also like that they do more interviews 
I would love this, but if I were a dev, I’d never bother with interacting with forum users. That would be an obvious case of “didn’t learn any lessons from past engagements.” The majority of feedback we apparently give is very negative and not at all constructive. I guess they would need to use a specialized version of something like ChatGPT to extract the 1% of useful feedback.
However, more frequent non-interactive blog-style posts like this would be welcome (particularly class/spec balance, but loot systems are important too)!
It used to be a regular thing until Cataclysm, when they started to withdraw behind scripted PR.
I think there’s a degree of concern if they decide to do this. Seeing them announce something like patch notes here on GD some of the first responses are usually snarky or outright hostile to the blue posting for something totally irrelevant.
I question the effectiveness of the Community Council and wonder how they aggregate information/topics to bring up to the CC Forum to interact with Blizzard. And even then, having gone through that forum, I rarely see much interaction with the CC.
I just imagine the devs seeing how wow players treated Ghostcrawler back then and when the time came for someone else to take up the mantle, everyone collectively said “NOPE”.
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It’s a combination of that and not wanting to reveal too much of what’s behind the curtain. Remember there was that warlock dev that used to regularly share insights, take feedback and even got into arguments with the other devs on behalf of warlock players, then got fired for revealing that certain nerfs were being done because of PvP (something people suspected for years but had never been confirmed).
I think WoW needed more guys like that.
Interaction is hard with this game when the players want all of their classes to be super duper OP and any reason the dev gives, rarely is good enough but also factor in their own kind of vision, ego, and so on, and you have a bit of a mess.
More chatter, banter, transparency would be nice but lets face it… it won’t end well lol
But that would mean the dev’s would have to talk to the ret community.
We can’t have that now can we!