You’re so determined to portray anything that blizzard does as bad that you’ll invent controversies to make that point.
All this does is let more people (IE: people who are unable to attend blizzcon) submit questions
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You can still ask those questions. In the scripted environment though, they’ll just be “missed” and not picked.
Quite frankly these questions would be a waste of everyone’s time.
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They’ve already told us their plans on monetizing the trading post, and they worded it vague enough that they can practically do whatever they want with it. If you ask this question, you’d just get the same answer.
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Of course they will say yes, they will introduce more free sets alongside paid sets. But once again, it will be phrased in a vague non-answer statement designed to placate people, much like how pre-launch they said D4 would have free sets just as cool as the paid sets. Cool is subjective, so they never lied.
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Blizzard has already gone over what happened to that promised content. It was an answer that felt bad, but it was probably the most honest answer they have given in years - they had to get Overwatch 2 out and they had to try to make it good so they kept taking staff off of the PvE and putting them onto the PvP and systems teams, and PvE floundered and ended up stalling indefinitely, and they realised they could not do it. Obviously a little more to that story - the bosses and investors pushed them into doing it for money - but it’s pretty dang close to the complete truth, which is unusual for Blizz. So anyone asking that is wasting everyones time.
And “why are you aggressively monetizing the game?” You serious? That will only give you a BS answer about how they want to give people options, and how they spend so much time and care on the skins, and maybe you’ll get a non-committal “We will try to improve upon the value of our products”.
- And this one is just a flat out insult. Of course they will say they playtest their game and will do their best to ensure a higher quality experience in the future. And that will be that.
You act as though these questions are all hard-hitting and will expose Blizzard and force them to change their ways and make amends, when all it would do is waste the slot with lots of corporate non-answers.
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This is why I always hated the live Q&A. The amount of people who think they caught Blizzard in a gotcha moment. Blizzard isn’t a friend or a person. It never was. It’s weird to see people act like they can haze and shame a company into submission. If that were the case, the world would look a lot different.
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So how many times has that happened?
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it happens daily on this forum 
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At least twice a Blizzcon. They are fewer due to the kind of people who put down the money for Blizzcon tickets, but it’s the same tired “is this an April fools joke?” Duplicates
Sure but how many times at Blizzcon during the live Q&A?
So… twice is enough for them to hide from their players? Seems pretty cowardly.
it’s not about cowardice. this isn’t a UFC fight. it’s a marketing event put on by a company to promote their own products. they don’t owe you a venue to “own” them or whatever.
I’m not making any judgment as to why they’re doing it, but I’ll tell you I fully prefer the Fanfest style of Q&A (this style) to the live.
I want questions about the game, the features, and the story. No time wasted.
She’s not saying Blizzard is hiding from them. She’s just saying that people very often waste everyone’s time with questions that they think are a “gotcha” to Blizz when in reality it’s just a bad question.
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“Cowardice” isn’t only related to physical fights. Come on, you know that.
Never said they owe me or I own anything. I have no idea what your weird point is.
You’ll get exactly what you asked for, preselected and screened. Perfectly answered.
Twice, in how many years?
Twice per Blizzcon. Either weird questions about the lore, or questions that cannot be answered. With preselected questions, it’s questions they are willing to answer. Meaning less dead air (cutting into the time for more questions), and a chance that the most asked questions will be seen, if not outright answered.
No one says Square Enix is hiding from their players when they do it.
So first it was people were “hazing and shaming” and now it’s “well, they ask lore questions or questions that can’t be answered.”
So therefore,
I think you’re making this up.
That you know of.
I meant hazing and shaming in relation to an earlier reply, so I apologize for the mixed train of thought there.
I am not making it up, though. This segment is truly terrible.
I think they don’t want to do live q&a anymore because they’re tired of their words being thrown back at them.
They want clean and pristine questions that they can give clean and pristine answers to and ignore questions about features people don’t like and they plan on keeping in the game.
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There probably would be a bunch of toxic questions about whatever the latest content is too, I’d imagine. A live Q&A would be an unmitigated disaster.
Okay, so I don’t know what we’re arguing about.
What I said isn’t the same thing as what you said.
Asking Blizzard, for example, why they didn’t do something they said they were going to do or explain why they’re going a particular direction is not even in the same ballpark as “shaming and hazing.”
You’re right, that’s not the same as throwing their words back at them.