Thanks for clarifying.
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we didn’t act right so now they don’t want to talk to us.
we did this to ourselves.
they hate us.
What update did he give? Was it that there was going to be news soon?
Yeah that’s not forum worthy lmao.
SOD NEWS: We will soon release news about SoD
This isn’t Nintendo Direct.
Is that their target audience though? Sure he gets more user interaction on twitter, but it doesn’t mean much if those users aren’t customers or users of his product.
Plus, couldn’t they just tweet the blue post or forum announcement? They just literally never do anything on the forums sometimes, it’s just radio silence while ALL the information is on some 3rd party social media website.
Again, it’s just incompetency from the development team at the end of the day.
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Make sure to have your flag of the week and preferred pronouns up to date on your resume. It tells employers that you’re totally a person who should be hired and has no issues whatsoever.
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What an interesting way of admitting to be terminally online.
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The forums don’t have adult content bots thus X > forums.
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Wrong.
Most SOD players are not on Twitter looking for updates on wow. Maybe retail players are on Twitter, and that’s a maybe.
I don’t personally know anybody in my age group that still uses Twitter, and my age group is almost certainly the majority in SOD.
ah yes anecdotal evidence as facts… I’m talking about as a whole. There’s maybe 50-100k that use these forums probably a couple thousand that check them daily and maybe like 5 of them are coming here looking for news as that’s what wowhead is for. Twitter with a quarter billion users ensures people outside of the WOW space can see it as well as all the news sites that just have push notifications set to collect news.
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No, he isn’t. Engagement is higher in general on twitter than here. It’s simple logic and thinking. I also work in SEO so like, I have that background knowledge. Heck WoWhead probably has higher engagement and user traffic than the WoW forums do.
Nothing here is at all verifiable by you in anyway outside of the people you know who don’t use twitter. Other than that one line you have no basis to make any definitive claim on age groups or who uses what based on which WoW variant they play.
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Nobody checks these forums for official information unless it pops up on the battle et browser bucko.
Stop trying to create yet more drama for no reason.
Wow deva avoid this place because people like you and the rest of the forum goblins do is complain and moan about stuff that it’s not even a problem for people who play the game in normal amounts. Not try to speed run it to them run to the forums to cry for more.
Ah, you must be new, here. Blue posts have never been super common here on the forums.
With all of this dev defense coming to the rescue, I don’t think it needs to be stated that updates related to a paid service should be posted on the direct site of said service. If not the forums, then somewhere else. Not on a third party platform like X. And I totally disagree with Aggrend’s take, we do want him to be telling us daily what is actively being worked on. I don’t need a presentation, just keep us informed. It’s called communication with the player base. People feel totally ignored and if I treated my clients like that at my job I would’ve been fired yesterday.
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I agree with you about the information sharing on Twitter/X, and with the way that X works (and I’ve spent years working with SEO on and off myself, starting in 1997) I doubt that these random reply posts are being more viewed organically on X, but regardless certain devs have decided they like that platform. Aggrend has addressed these forums before and has continued to share info there, so adapting is the only thing that’s going to work.
The best way to see this information is to go to X even if that means creating a profile with fake information and watch the @AggrendWoW feed and replies (as well as others for WoW if you want, but for Classic that seems to be where a lot of the info is). Check once in the morning with coffee or something. Then do not reply in any way that’s negative there or you may get blocked from seeing it.
Then share with your friends. You may have the information before wowhead etc because X is incredibly poor for organically aggregating information from (meaning someone has to seek it out). Since the replies don’t tend to show up on standard X feeds what I explained is the best way for anyone to see it and that’s how the more involved people are doing already.
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I dunno … maybe … like … most WoW players don’t go to the forums? Maybe you guys just think you’re a majority?
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People that come to these forums have a very specific topic that they’re interested in. Although it doesn’t get as much traffic as other sources might, it is giving information to some of their most core audience members.
They can make one blue post here and it will reach all the other, more accessible platforms. You would think that driving up traffic to their website would be beneficial.
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L o l. People like you are a special breed. Can’t stop won’t stop paying for something you hate.
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adding more platforms means more ways to get doxxed. theres no excuse for forcing people to chase information like this. AND EVEN SO, RELAY THE INFO TO THE FORUMS. instead we have players relaying info that they cant.
Yes well, I’ve stated multiple times that I disagree with Blizzard posting stuff to Twitter/X and sharing things first with streamers. I think that things should be shared on the forums. The information is still going to get shared, and faster that way even on sites that aggregate like wowhead.
I also really dislike X as a platform and do not use it for anything other than looking at at WoW information (and rarely do that too) so I was just suggesting the best way to review that to others. If they don’t want to do that over fear of doxxing or anything else it’s ok.
In addition, I find it kind of disturbing to see people going on about how much engagement X gets while not even realizing that this is irrelevant if the traffic isn’t being directed to the places that matter (in this case replies). That original reply about SoD by Aggrend has gotten 5.1k views (and it was shared first), then when it was posted from Aggrend as a new post it has gotten 83k. That a person who claims to do SEO for a job who doesn’t even understand how website traffic works at a very basic level is head-scratching.
TLDR: I’m on your side about where info should be posted.
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These forums have become a cesspool due to a lack of over-sight, just like with the game. Most everything now is automated, and the rules that are enforced seem to be selective. As in you can break one rule and be fine, but break a rule that goes against the grain and they’ll decide to enforce THAT one.
Even in the game, there’s no moderation anymore, it’s the players in charge of trying to police the other players. A Blizzard employee still has to be present to whip out the ban hammer, but squelching/silencing is automated. It’s basically a Lord of the Flies situation that Blizzard has left us in on both the forums and in game.
Thus the reason why things have only gotten worse. If I were a CM, I wouldn’t want to respond on the forums, they let it fester and get bad enough that there’s no fixing it without a complete overhaul.