So you had to remind us, despite it being right there on the forum Lists:
I award you the Honorary Necro Lord of the Day Award.
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I wish Blizzard would push RP more.
This is an MMORPG. It could have been like a big Dungeons & Dragons thing. Instead we have these arena tournaments and RACING FOR SPEED GO GO GO dungeon runs.
It seems so far away. I still consider WoW to be my D&D virtual world… even if the community isn’t all that into it.
Yes! Finally.
No. We didn’t.
Blizzard realized that many of them quit the game after their ideas are ignored. Personally I don’t know why folks bother it’s obvious the devs are gonna do whatever they feel like despite backlash.
As a UX designer it’s downright painful to see the developers sitting on a wealth of actionable feedback that’s actually based on the needs of the users.
It’s data, both quantitative and qualitative that’s literally being left to stagnate. But this is precisely what happens when you have developers doing the job of designers. It’s happened where I’ve worked and it’s the exact point where things go –and continue to go– down-hill.
What is UX?
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Oh! It’s User Experience design. It’s a really important part of the design process for anything development related. It basically focuses on why a user does the things they do, how they feel about using a product, and what can be done to make it more usable & enjoyable. Which Blizzard could benefit from.
It gets confused with UI design a lot nowadays (which is understandable).
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Please tell Apple to put ChatGPT in my Siri.
They were never high.
I’ve seen little discussion brought about by these guys, even less than what an MVP brought.
They should at least be active though.
There’s understandably just very little incentive when the communication from Blues isn’t there. It’s all very one-sided. They drop in, say something, then are never seen again within a thread. There’s no active discourse. The impression I get is this (and optics matter here):
- The developers have plans
- They have little intention of changing said plans
- The go in and locate topics that already align with their plans, drop a bit of informaiton, then leave
- I need to stress that I don’t believe that this is at all the fault of the Blues responding; it’s a big company and so communications have to be signed off on, it’s not like a startup where autonomy is encouraged. It can’t be easy for them and I do sympathise.
Haha someone necro this thread, it’s 1 year old…but you’re right.
lol I didn’t even realize that but that makes it even worse. lol
They asked for that color text, they should have discussion for the betterment of the game and because they were supposed to care.
I just assumed that forum was for people on the council and never clicked it. Lol
I’ve noted that a significant amount just make their intro post, post a thread about their pet issue, and disappear.
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This might be a dumb question, but – what are the differences, in this context/your usage, between a developer and a designer? I think I could make some up via conjecture, but I’ve never actually heard this distinction drawn before.
Most people don’t have any ideas and they never made any effort in that CC selection to even select people capable of original thought.
I don’t even know what the purpose of the community council is to be honest. I thought it was just people with a special color to make them feel special.
Could not have said it better myself.
I was doing very minor development work, not for money, but just as part of a large group of people wanting to make mods to an old game.
Some of us make gun mods skin, mods maps, user interface.
Our collaboration with the community was huge.
All I can think of is that they must have an inner circle of feedback that they rely on and ignore all of those on the outside.
I had hoped that the community council was an opportunity for more people to be part of the inner circle
I wish they would.