Could you imagine if Blizzard issued a public apology to their players? Or if they actually responded to player feedback anymore like SE does?
At this point I don’t think I could believe it, I would think it was an April Fool’s joke or something to get our hopes up just to mess with us.
A demonstration of humility would actually lead to regaining good will and faith lost, as it did with the Final Fantasy 14 playerbase.
Humility has existed with very miniscule portions in the west for years now. It is not even just a blizzard problem, we just have a huge ego problem in general.
Well, respect is a two way street. I’d like to see toxic behavior nixed during any feedback. Bring back fun and insightful discourse.
But as it is now, feelings and attitudes are sitting in stagnant water. We need a super druid to take out the corruption. Bring back the passion and with thoughtful consideration by both parties.
There is toxic behavior in both playerbases that has and will always exist.
And yet Square Enix/FF14 devs chose to demonstrate humility.
Nice false flagging
Humility in the form of banning people who get out of line.
Force compliance, the best kind of Humility
Exactly. You get back what you give. The WoW community is toxic as hell, but that doesn’t mean the solution is just an endless war between the players and devs.
Let’s just say WoW dev favorite title is “the Proud”.
I’d gladly welcome a harder ban system if the dev team is able to publicly recognize error and ask for forgiveness from the fans for their narrative and design failure as they did.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but SE had to engender a sense of humility after Realm Reborn stuff.
I don’t know that WoW is that bad. Are we at that level?
Game mechanics wise? No.
Game systems wise? Yes.
Game narrative wise? Yes/getting there depending on if they do a Kerrigan 2.0 for Sylvanas.
It would be great if Blizzard did a formal apology for the last few expansions, systems and failing to deliver a game the players want to spend time in.
The problem is Blizz has needed to win back the players for years now so this resentment and hate just keeps building up and they don’t realize it.
Remember WOD and its 1 patch with zero content?
They don’t ban people for criticism/asking questions, they ban people for being bigots/toxic. Which you know, the WoW community could really use more of that, too. Be humble/receptive to the civil people with criticism/questions, and just ban the toxic/bigoted people. The WoW devs don’t even bother responding to civil people anymore.
Imagine if blizzard actually cared about their playerbase.
Oh look yet another FF is good WOW bad thread from the FF community who still don’t know how to post on their own forums.
Yea and it was better than SL too. I actually was looking at WoD vids today, man I miss it. Glad stance was so much fun.
Something I immediately took notice of is how passionate the FF14 devs are and how much content they get at their supposed “Blizzcon”. We WoW players are lucky to get 5hrs of WoW coverage in an annual Blizzcon weekend. However I decided to watch the last FF14 Con coverage and they got literally 48hrs or more worth of dev interviews, Q&A’s, content sneek peaks, in depth looks and announcements. I was so jealous.
Do you mean like the public apologies they have done in the past? You know, the ones that players were too jaded to accept?
When they’ve messed up, they’ve apologized. Folks not liking the apology doesn’t make the apology disappear.