Yeah, I mean I am certain they do read these forums as I recall Ysthisen’s mentioning how much of it Ion did reach. But when they need targeted feedback it makes the most sense to get it from higher-tier players.
I want to THANK whoever made this post for understanding how problematic it is for people to spread “use meta build, everything else bad” to all tiers of WoW play leading to toxic tryhardism & elitism.
I’ll main Talbadar’s and Psychic link cuz its fun!
Someone no doubt keeps track of what players are discussing in the forums. But I suspect the “they” you are thinking reads the forums is not the low level employee that actually keeps track of these things.
And the fact is that the forums really don’t matter. Trying to influence player opinion by having forum discussion is a joke, since the percentage of players out there who actually visit the forums is so small, that when you think you’ve won an argument, actually you only wasted your own time while having zero affect on anyone.
Fwiw I read your post carefully and thought about what you were trying to convey to the reader. I especially liked your use of the word “ur” and may try to incorporate it into my own writing. Thanks for ur post!.
You said the forums matter, because the devs can read them.
Why are you wasting your time manning the barricades and trying to prove other players wrong as though somehow that will influence the profitability of the game?
It’s only a bad thing for Activision because they don’t have plausible deniability anymore. The “we don’t listen to feedback because the playerbase is toxic” or whatever other excuse they had has now been shown to be a BS lie with this leak.
They know what players are thinking. They just think we’re wrong and don’t care what players want or even are willing to pay for.
The Glorious Future of WoW™ is upon us! Rejoice in the perfection of design and incorporation of RPG elements that never have existed in any RPG before! Because it’s what players deserve. That’ll show players who is boss.
Possibly. Honestly though I think there’s too much discord on these forums to ever get a coherent direction from the playerbase. Unless its just something resoundingly hated like limited Covenant abilities to Shadowlands content. I would wager they monitor Twitter, Reddit and WoWhead more than these forums.
I mean, an ex-CM said Ion reads the forums more than any other employee. You are certainly entitled not to believe it, but that doesn’t make it automatically false.
“Ion pays very close attention to the forums, so much even that he was sending CMs threads that they haven’t even seen.
If you post on forums there is very high chance that Ion seen it.”