Looks to me like I understand well enough what your problem is, I just think its a stupid problem.
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Thank you⌠THAT is the kind of response I want to hear⌠you feel Blizzard is paying attention, and gave a reason why you feel as much. THAT at least has to do with the topic of this post! THANK YOU!
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No, I donât think Iâm gonna just step aside and let you have your âBlizzard sucksâ echo chamber. Your grievance is a non-issue. Your complaint is thus a non-issue, as the foundation on which it has been built is similarly inconsequential.
More importantly, this is neither the Customer Support forum nor the survey on a support ticket.
Threads with the sole intent of trash talking anyone, including Blizzard themselves when thereâs no actual reasonable basis, are not productive by any means, and unwelcome here.
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That being said, Blizzard probably pays less attention to the forums on the weekend. Less CS Forum workers, its why âSunday Threadsâ are a thing. There is a greater chance a legit post on a Sat/Sun can be pushed down the pile for when they come into work on Monday.
I would be sure your thread (assuming you created it today) has activity on it come Monday to ensure it doesnât get (accidentally) overlooked with all the troll/sunday threads that are bound to push it down the pile on Sunday.
I am not saying it will get you a reply. Either way, I wouldnât expect something. But it would make sure it gets seen by at least the forum peoples.
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Say it with me. "People disagreeing with me are not trolling."
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I am okay with people not agreeing with me. I am asking people to stop going off topic. Akstonâs post disagreed with me, but talked about whether Blizzard pays attention or not, which was on topic. I am totally cool with that! I am not cool with people going off topic talking about things outside the scope of the post.
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Iâm pretty sure Blizzard transparency comes down to: Do whatever we want whenever we want then claim itâs the best thing for the game.
Youâre calling people bringing up things relevant to your post off topic because it hurts your position.
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Youâre honestly surprised a company that acknowledges their lack of transparency and claims they want to do better communicating, then doesnât communicate better would do such a thing?!
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They are⌠The topic is that Blizzard monitors feedback. Just because something you want isnât implemented doesnât mean it wasnât seen or listened to. In your case the issue is important because it has been something discussed for over 10 years now and Blizzard has made no indication that they are going to change it.
Your complaint boils down to, âI should be given a personal answer from a Blizzard employee everytime I ask for or demand something.â That is never going to happen and never should. Again your issue is important because it isnât even close to something that Blizzard should be wasting itâs time acknowledging. You think an itemâs drop rate is too low, you were informed that it is working correctly and that if you want to see it changed discuss it on the forums. That is all the transparency you can get.
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No, I am calling things off topic when they are off topic. They have nothing to do with whether people are being ignored, whether there is transparency, etc.
I am not really sure what the alternative is.
Every company should do what that company wants. I am not sure they make any decisions they donât feel are best for the game.
They may be wrong about what is best for the game, but that is different.
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Well, because itâs not really the truth for them to say itâs always about whatâs best for the game.
Whatâs best for the game isnât necessarily whatâs best for the shareholders, or management trying to bump metrics to get their bonus.
⌠and weâve seen that second thing sometimes win out over that first thing.
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What you want is a 1-to-1 dialogue with a developer about your specific issue. None of us is likely to ever get that. We massively outnumber the developers of the game, and their time at work is better spent doing actual work than interacting with us.
I donât feel ignored â I never have. I donât agree with every decision that gets made, but that has more to do with everyone elseâs opinion than mine, as well as the possibility for developmental risk-taking and the unexpected negative consequences thereof.
In all seriousness, thereâs no transparency to be had here. Mistakes are going to get made. Some will be rectified. Some will just have to be learning experiences, and every time that team loses someone who has learned those previous lessons directly, we enter circumstances where we can see the same type of mistake repeat.
Youâre looking for data transparency, from what I gather. And honestly, you donât really have a right to that.
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I am curious, when had they acknowledged the lack of transparency and claimed to do better at communicating? I would like to look into that.
I think its a fine line. You have to take both into consideration. If you lose your investors, you lose the game.
While Iâd love for them to give a particular finger to all investors/shareholders/etc, I know thats not plausible. There has to be give and take.
I do genuinely feel, that over all Blizzard is trying to do right by WoW. I just also feel they swing and miss at times.
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I donât remember exactly but I believe it was Ion in a Q&A for this expansion. ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
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I mean tbh thatâs something theyâve said repeatedly for the past 13 years. It doesnât really ever end up improving - but they do keep repeating it.
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Kind of like when they were like âWe want to release content faster and on a regular basisâ and then never did. 
They tend to have a hard time following through with what they WANT to do. Poor indie companies these daysâŚ
WoD was their attempt at that. It didnât work, and resulted in a garbage expansion. Thatâs why they stopped.
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