How about ACTUALLY listening to the community?

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So I was checking out a thread I’ve participated in before (No one listens to open world players - #2182 by Jenaka-atiesh) and I see so many claims and counter-claims about “most players do this, or most players do that, or whatever” and the problem is no-one has any real data because Blizzard has yet to ever once, so far as I’m aware, actually ask the community, on this subject or any other.

I’ve been playing WoW since the 2nd closed beta way back in 2004 (though this account I think is only a couple of years old), and I have never once been polled by Blizzard on any subject, ever.

Why not add an option into the in-game menu that allows players to fill out short surveys, just a few questions, something that anyone could fill out in a minute or two. Once a month, Blizzard could change the questions, and make the survey option flash for a while to show people there is a new survey.

The survey would be entirely optional - indeed Blizzard could even make an option to permanently hide it for those that want. Those who didn’t bother to answer the survey don’t get their votes counted, and here’s the important bit, Blizzard publishes the results of each survey.

Then, whether you’re for open world players getting better gear or against, whether you think LFR should be abolished or not, whether you think PvP should be easier/harder/whatever, whether you think this class is better than that one, or there should be 8 dungeons in Dragonflight launch or 12, whatever it is, we’d all have actual real data to talk it over with.

So come on Blizzard, you bang on about listening to the community, how about you really go and do it this time and share the results with the rest of us, eh?

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That’s odd! For me, in the past expansion, they asked me about a mount and WoD dungeons for season 4. My choices always win because I vote on 200 characters. (I’m kidding! Probably closer to 30. But my choices won so woot woot)

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Lucky you :slight_smile: I’m still waiting for any sort of feedback request from Blizzard (short of feedback requests on GM tickets).

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I wish Blizzard would listen to me and get rid of all holiday mog restrictions. :pensive:

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You might check this forum, actually! I believe that the dungeon choice poll was asked on the forum, and the mount pull may have been asked on the launcher.

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The problem is, and don’t get me wrong, I have no doubt you’re correct about the dungeon choice poll, was that it would have been forums only (that one at least), and, much more importantly, were the results published?

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Idk what you said man. Weird night. Idc about keys or arena anymore.

I want engaging world content where I am free and can do what I want to.

Xo

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They do not respect the paying customers. They design the game they want to design. Whether paying customers will accept it is pretty much an afterthought.

In any case, if they really did care about what the playerbase is thinking, they’d hire a professional marketing research team to help them characterize the playerbase, identify demographics to target for maximum impact, and determine what content will maximize appeal for those players.

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Yes, the results were published!

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Yup, just found it myself. So, I stand corrected on that one at least.

I still think regular polling, and in-game polling, would be better though. But thank you for pointing that one out. /cheers :slight_smile:

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is that a bad thing?

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I agree, in game would be far superior, you would get more people who play the game to see it and participate! Since you didn’t even know this poll happened, that tells me that they didn’t do a great job of advertising it.

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Rita what is going on?

This is me tonight. Idk what’s going on.

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Omg you are so cute! I want to snatch you! Yay gnomes!

They are asking about polls/ player participation and I overall agree with them.

It is nice to meet you, fellow gnome! I suspect that like everyone else on the forum, you are me. Yes? Yes!

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Yes the design the game they want to design. They don’t design to cater 100% to you.

And it’s laughable you think blizzard doesn’t have analysts on player behaviour. How naive.

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Well, I hope they respect their customers, they’d be stupid not to, cause, well, you know, the customers pay the bills right?

It’s possible - I would think even likely - that they in fact do do some form of internal characterisations of the playerbase, but since we never get to see it, it may as well not exist.

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I know they listen. Everytime the community speaks with their wallets, all of a sudden, things get added or fixed. In fact, not flying in previous expacs due to the Pathfinder was a HUGE issue for me. I told them, "Earn it through the campaign, rather than rep, make the skies dangerous again, and keep a handful of places without flight. We got just that with Shadowlands. I had flying in SL months ago, and am still 3 weeks of grinding from having it for BFA. Sad when I can fly in new zones and be more entertained than farming old content without it. If they are not listening to you, it’s probably because you are not bringing them solutions moments before unsubbing. There is an exit interview for a reason.

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Yeah give us player housing, Blizzard!

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See - Pathfinder is another great issue that seems to wedge the community - some love it, some hate it, but no-one knows what the community as a whole thinks about it - not even Blizzard, since they’ve (again, to the best of my knowledge) never polled the community on it.

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…this would just give people the ability to weaponize opinions. Hard pass. Have the surveys, hard agree…publish results, hard pass.

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