Oh hey its Attimis! Crazen and I were spying on you in Stormwind the other day. (just sitting around waiting for things to do more like.) You are literally the only mechagnome he tolerates and thats saying something!
Smol Edit: I’d like to clarify we weren’t activly spying. We saw you were in stormwind and decided to go look for you to hang out but you were in RP so we chose to just sit back from afar instead of disrupt it.
BLizzard has just quit communicating. The current decisions in that office have not been in line with the customers for a very long time. The discussions will always descend in to negativity. Mostly because the decisions in each of their franchises have been trash. From this new hero talent system to the beauty that is D4 trash and the social contract.
Look I can appreciate that CC members are at least trying to improve communication with Blizzard, but to be honest after all the years of listening to Blizz vomit out the “We want to improve communication” and then CC being what it’s been since its introduction…I’m not gonna hold my breath.
Blizz will listen whenever they feel like which is never. AND EVEN IF by some miracle they do listen I know that monkey paw is going to curl.
Also go to the CC forums, look at how many times Blizzard has responded to a thread there. Now out of all of those responses look at how many of them are an actual conversation and not just one post and then they dip out.
Communication has been the biggest complaint and largest item of feedback that the MVPs gave to Blizzard and the CC as well. Blizzard has needed to step up communications for a LONG time.
I will give them some credit though. There are some systemic improvements in the past couple years.
They now post roadmaps for content planning publicly. Players know what is going to be released and have an idea when, well in advance.
They release the content to the PTR with notes so people can check it out and make guides
They post a This Week in WoW sharing what is up in WoW for the week that has all the release info, in-game holiday events, shop or social media promotions, etc.
They are good now about posting the Hotfix notes on the forum, the promotions, etc. Lots of actual blue announcements HERE, not just on the main news page. Good mirroring.
They post a Blues News weekly to round up blue posts and discussions.
There IS the Community Council which is better than no Council and it is transparent to the public, not just a secret forum.
So while it is not the level of Dev communication that I think many want, it is a lot better than it was in say 2018.
I will take progress and give credit to the Community team for their work and the added regular info we now get.
The way I see it, I don’t think the devs have anything to say right now.
The communication just sometimes goes from us to the CM and for the CM to transmit to the devs as feedback but after that is a toss-up. If anything, it’s probably just a small nod and a thumbs up in return and that isn’t anywhere near to an official response.
They do listen, but responding is an entirely different case.
I guess master wordsmith may be a bit generous, but he’s really good at saying what people want to hear in a way that can’t really be construed as a lie when it inevitably gets monkey pawed. And yeah, being jaded and pessimistic, I was starting to get good at reading between the lines, too.
I can’t help but notice how they stopped doing those AMAs not that long after his fumble. Guess rehearsing hot topic answers and cherry picking questions can only take you so far.
Thanks so much man. When I get into that Corvette, there will be so many tears. SO many.
And I wouldn’t worry about the whole CC thing anyway. I wanted to be a Runescape 2 player moderator a long time ago. At the end of the day, its all about just playing a game.
In fact you know what? I’m going do some laundry for my biker jacket. Holy heck I’m so pumped.
Nice response Cyrios, I hope this show some visibility about so many topics that are ignored, We don’t need to wait for PTR or any new content to provide feedback, there’s tons of things that could be address.
Focus groups and surveys are only as good as the sample that is used. I used to work in marketing research. Blizzard appears to carefully select a sample that is likely to agree with their preconceived notions.