Is that the answer we are getting from Blizz? That is all? Silence?
Come on! Even if there is something bad going on inside Blizz, I think silence is just damaging everything and everyone.
Just being silent and pretend that things are OK and that the players love the SL Lore and systems is ridiculous.
We all pay for playing this game. A little communication would be cool. After all, it is us the ones that pay every month and make this company a billionaire one.
What exactly is the issue you want addressed?
Can’t tell if silence is the right choice for them or not. When they do say stuff, it goes one of two ways.
A) They come out and talk about legitimate things, and everyone hates all over them.
B) They say something reeeeaaallly stupid that invokes understandable backlash from the community.
So, I don’t know anymore lol. “We don’t want you to play demo lock”, “don’t you guys have phones??” - I know, not WoW. But it’s Blizz.
Maybe they need some actual speakers, rather than just letting devs talk.
Relative Silence seems to have worked for them for the last decade. Not sure why they would start speaking up now.
The only developer that regularly communicated with players was Ghostcrawler (Greg Street) and he left the company after Cataclysm.
Sadly you are right. But anyway, it would be cool if Blizz actually goes out and say something addressing the lack of content, the feedback, the rage against Lore, the borrowed power, etc. It just seems like they are looking at everything falling apart in silence.
Disagree. What you are doing while silent matters most.
Case in point, No Man’s Sky.
But honestly on a PR front it’s the correct thing to do,… because if they do come out say yeah we messed up it’s just going to be more ammo against them…
And honestly I think right now they’re in panic mode because I think now they realize they’re not invincible…
I honestly don’t know if they can right this ship
Between New World coming out that’s going to siphon off some people from Wow to that that play PVP,
And with Final Fantasy new expansion right around the corner hype-train is in full effect and they’re going to siphon off some people from Wow to that…
Blizzard is stuck in a rock and a hard place and I don’t know if they have the development team with enough talent to crawl their way back out of it
The answer for what?
Maybe they should be speaking now that they’ve loss 2 million players according to the latest financial report.
The WoW community is pretty unreasonable to deal with. But I agree it’d be nice if they talked more.
What I think would be nice is something like a monthly blog post where once a month they can answer some questions and generally talk about their goals and reasoning. I think players just want more insight into why they do what they do with systems, content and class changes and such. That’d be helpful and not too stressful.
Saw a demotivational poster once that said:
“Apathy: If we don’t take care of the customer, maybe they’ll stop bugging us.”
Would empty platitudes really be any better?
I prefer silence over being lied to. Ion.
True that. I thought of that case, but remember that with NMS, Sean Murray was silent BECAUSE he and Hello Games were developing patches to improve the game. Oh, and for free. Do you think that is the case with Blizz?
I think that they are working on 10.0.
We are probably going to get a light 9.2 and then straight into 10.0.
Maybe… Though they don’t release numbers per game. Just the Active Monthly Users for Blizzard as a whole. Since Starcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, and Overwatch (1) are all basically in maintenance mode, player loss is inevitable. Plus they won’t have any new PC games for at least a year. Maybe two.
If Ion took an hour every month to explain to why they did all the things to the game that you don’t like, would it make you feel better?
I’m thinking it would not.
Yeah, it seems like we won’t get a 9.3 and go right away with 10.0
They had a vision and way too high expectations set for what they could reasonably do. They set out to fix it with passion after the initial, hellish release.
Blizzard is blind and people have very low expectations at this point, yet they still underdeliver. Rather than fix a massive woe the community has via conduit energy, Ion defends it.
Is conduit energy really going to pad Bobby’s pocket that much? Do you think Bobby cares at all If it’s removed if the game is still making money?
The next few quarterly reports are going to be very, very interesting.
Any time they say something, y’all jump on them for it. You pick it apart, Wowhead picks it apart, Bellular makes a video about how he’d do everything better, Asmongold gets mad about it, their fanclubs parrot every word they say mindlessly, it’s a sh*t show (obviously).
I wish we had more communication from them about things, but I also understand why they don’t. It’s popular to get outraged about everything they do.