I admit, I haven’t read whatever this secret info is. Did they actually say “we never read forums”? Because there is a difference between that, and having a private sub-place.
Its not a secret society, its the people who seems to give the best feedback. If you look at the quality of the posts on the forum you can see that it is very hard to extract anything useful from it. By opening more selective communication channels they can make this process a lot more efficient.
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It was leaked today on Twitter.
I am aware of that, but did they straight up say they don’t read forums are are we angry-extrapolating because they have a secret hideout.
Forums matters to the forum users, asking eachother for help, and discussing a variety of topics with eachother.
It doesn’t matter if blizz reads, or responds to it or not most of the time.
It’s a secret society when the 1% top players are privately invited in secrecy for feedback that the WOW devs listen to, when the majority of the player base thinks its the feedback on the public forums that are being heard lol.
I dont know myself, all I see are constant threads how ppl dislike this or that and the company is out to ruin the game. Trolls being trolls just to enjoy the burn of a thread as it fills its course. Another thread to add to the nonsense, cause we needed another for the 17263773838 time.
If that was Blizzards intentions they wouldn’t of put public forum subsections here specifically designed for player feedback.
Sure you can call it what you want. I just think that a secret society involves way more than just getting a discord invitation, not everything that is not public is a secret society.
Yeah I don’t think that this is the case. If you ask anyone on these forums they will probably tell you with almost certainty that they are not being heard.
you can prob count the bliz responses to beta class feedback threads on your fingers.
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Is there an indication that they don’t actually acquire information from the feedback sections of the forum?
Last I checked blues still pop up every now and again, clearly showing blizz presence.
Exactly, and these responses were already discussed about in their private forums. They are just regurgitating the need to know basis information to the masses.
And tbh thinking more about it, having more communication with those who can play the classes, and game to almost perfection is very much a good idea, as high tier players are generally the ones who discover the obscene class imbalances within the game, along with raid, dungeon, and item mechanics being busted under the right conditions.
They find stuff the average player will never notice is happening.
Sure, but not when its done with non-transparency and in secrecy while giving the illusion to the majority of the player base, that their official WOW feedback forums matter.
yea but when they flame those same people on twitter for trying to help…
Why would they need to be transparent about where the information is coming from…?
“Hey were getting info from players who are far better then the majority of the playerbase”
Breh who cares lol
Let’s see … estimated staff * work hours per day dedicated to reading forums / number of active players …
By rough napkin calculation, if any dev is reading this post right now, by the time they reach the end of this sentence I’ve already exhausted my lifetime quota of their attention.
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So people didn’t have to waste their time for the last 15+ years by creating countless posts on these official forums thinking that their time testing and reporting for their feedback mattered?
Ofcourse the feedback matters.
It just takes a backseat to people who are actually good breaking the game down to a mechanical level.
All the posts over the years stating that Blizzard is ignoring the beta testers here on their public forums says other wise lol.