11/06/2018 09:40 PMPosted by
Narull
11/06/2018 03:57 PMPosted by
Aehl
How do we break this cycle?
We already have, you yourself said there was no threads that need blue attention and it's been proven they are watching.
As for the old thread, let it die, this one is a lot better and a lot more logical discussion, reviving the old one would take all of that away.
Sorry but Aehl is not the spokesperson for the Oceanic playerbase, and them saying "There are no threads needing blue attention" is one sole subscriber's opinion, and should be taken as such.
Now I am going to come across as crass, obstinate, angry and aggressive, but frankly I couldn't give a toss at this point. For the many years I've played WoW I've been by far on the US servers - Greymane to be specific. As completely stupid as it sounds (at least to anyone with an inkling of IT knowledge), I get better latency more often than not staying on those realms than playing on Nagrand Oceanic.
I'm a shiftworker so am used to looking at night scenes more than day when I play (as I said most of my years have been on Greymane, which means playing their nights), so night/day is not so much of an issue for me personally. I do however know of many, many players that work 9-5 who are sick of always looking at night scenes.
Yet in all my years of play I have
NEVER suffered the lag problems I have seen since sharding was introduced. A problem that has been put in the too hard basket by Blizz because it means too much work to fix (or totally dumping sharding). In fact, as proved in other forum posts (across all regions) it took absolute ages for anyone from Blizz to even acknowledge it as a problem.
How much subscriber time was wasted by CM's and green posters saying rubbish like "rename x & y, delete all addons, run repair and smile as the roses grow!" Not everyone who raises a ticket or posts in the forum got their first computer last week, in fact many of us were online before WWW existed lol.
The fact that either CM's or green posters treat us like kids/fob us off is what raises the anger, not having a blue post something honest like "Sorry but you're a minority in the scheme of things, we fix it for you it upsets the majority of our customer base."
Now you might be a really nice person, or you may be protecting your green text (text colour is important to some people I know, makes them feel superior). Frankly I don't care either way - as you have said yourself you are not speaking with any authority, and everything you type is only your opinion.
Blizzard (sorry, Activision) is a business and as such it's sole purpose is to make money. To do so when making decisions they weigh up who it's going to affect the most - US customers (main income source) vs Oceanic customers (nice sideline income source). If Activision feel that a decision is going to negatively impact their main customer base (USA) they are not going down that path.
To summarise and finish:
You state not enough people complain on this forum to make it worthwhile for a blue to post. I state have a look at the numbers of all WoW forums in all regions and divide number of individual posters vs individual subscribers as a percentage. Using maths there has NEVER been a forum post worthwhile of a blue's attention!
Using the same logic the US & Euro forums would be bereft of blue posts, or at the very least be more akin to Oceanic - 1 or 2 blue posts every few years lol. Instead we have Ythisens posting on everything from serious questions to inane commentary on rubbish.
So my very serious question to you is, why the hell would the majority of the Oceanic playerbase waste their time posting in what they see as a dead, silent, ignored forum? A quick and easy search of the forum shows you exactly how bad Blizzard's communication is with their Oceanic playerbase (as you have said, being a green you are NOT representing Blizzard, only your own opinions).
BTW in case you were wondering, Takrulus having a reponse of "/salute" is in no way, shape or form considered to be a constructive blue reply to the many forum posts of subscribers over the years - my 6yo son can give that reply on a keyboard! At least Ythisens uses sentences, gotta give him that much lol.