Not even going to bother watching this upcoming QnA myself. It’s the same answers over and over again. The one I had been interested in was the lore QnA… but that one just, in my eyes, missed the mark monumentally. I was very disappointed with it.
Therefore, I hold my excitement until I can actually see datamined stuff, because I definitely won’t get any answers to important questions in the QnAs.
You guys complain about no communication. They do Q&A’s and its not good enough so then Ion does forum posts but people still complain. When is enough?
I am fine with them disclosing whatever they want to us whenever they want in whatever manner they want.
This is why I keep telling people who want “more communication” that they’re barking up the wrong tree.
What Blizzard says is irrelevant. What matters is what they do.
I don’t want them to talk at us. I want them to spend 100% of their time fixing the game. But they aren’t doing that. If cancelling all future Q&A’s frees up even 10 minutes of a single developer’s time to work on fixing problems, then cancelling all future Q&A’s is the right way to go.
But Blizzard isn’t focused on good game design anymore. They’ve turned into a company that’s all about e-sports and PR.
Your attitude and the way you look at the situation is only adding to the problem.
It’s like starving wild dogs and then throwing them a piece of steak, They go so long without communicating and then the answer a few questions they have little to no relevance two major issues that everyone is dying to hear about.
I suspect they ignore the questions that feature bitter players that are just desperate to try and ‘trap’ whoever is doing the Q&A, along with any that feature insults and questions of competence as well.
Some of questions are remarkably open-ended and take up a lot of time to answer - in which case we’ll start complaining that they wasted too much time on said question. I could see that as being a reason not to answer it.
Some likely require a significant amount of specialized knowledge on a subject which may not be possible without help of a computer or a department discussion.
The latter two would likely be better served with a forum thread or article written up, and maybe that’s the grounds for ‘rejection’.
Maybe doing a write up on a couple of the more ‘popular’ questions and adding them to the forum/news site after the Q&A as a ‘hey, these were popular questions but we couldn’t really answer them live, here are our thoughts’ might go over reasonably well.
Fallynn - I agree. I would love to see answers to important questions - but I am pretty sure I will be disappointed.
I actually managed to get a question in fairly early in the thread (seems to be a lack of participation this time around) but i won’t bother to watch the Q&A as I know that my question won’t be answered. I will just read the notes later.
Yeah same here. The notes tend to cover most of the important stuff. This QnA in particular really doesn’t have my interest because they went over all of the Tides stuff so many times now, including in Blizzcon (where we should have seen new stuff rather than what we already know ><). I don’t think there’s any new information at this point that can be given at all, and any questions asked will naturally have answers that could have been easily found and have already been answered.
This isn’t the Blizzard of Soon and It’ll come out when it’s done — those days the paltry information Blizzard offered was acceptable because when the product came out, you knew it was polished and had gone through enough iterations to fix the big glaring errors.
Those days are gone, but their paltry information sessions haven’t changed while their state of product release has. They should be more forthcoming with information when they’re always quick to toss out a “mea culpa” but the next time it happens it’s just another “mea culpa” — and those who just accept it are as much the problem as those who roast them on every word they say or post.
If they don’t really have a substantive response (or they’ve already answered it before and people just didn’t like the answer) why even waste time saying something like, “no new information at this time” or “last time we said this and we still think this.”
I do kind of wish they would move away from the Q&A format though and just have the devs talking about the game. Maybe answer like 2 or 3 questions at the end.
Also, I like Ion and think his answers are very thoughtful… but I think a lot of people have a problem with his communication style. It would be neat to hear from other devs besides just Ion.
Like I said I have nothing against the guy personally. It’s how he doesn’t address the question when he tries to answer it. That is, he beats around the bush.
It ends up being the same thing every q&A, we hear you we’re listening, it gets old.
I think he does answer the questions though, he is just very exact. A simple yes or no would be more direct, but wouldn’t be as exact.
Not everyone appreciates the way Ion answers a question. That’s why I think including more dev voices would be good. It would also show off this team of people they are always talking about.
I’m not trying to be a jerk, but the lore stream was never a Q&A. I don’t think it was ever advertised as a Q&A. It was just a stream. Did it accomplish Anything? Not really unless you’re big on hearing about them skim the surface of their processes.
I’m not defending the lore stream, but it’s not the same as a Q&A.
I know it isn’t. However, they said it was a lore stream, not a “We’re going to talk about the making of cinematic for an hour”. It was a waste of time with information everyone already knew, and I was disappointed. I’m no longer going to expect anything interesting from them at this point. Get my hopes up only to be crushed. Besides, the community has made it very clear that they don’t care about what they consider to be “fluff”.
Edit: Shouldn’t have said “QnA”, I meant stream, but meh.
You’re right. I don’t think it was successful, and I don’t blame you for feeling like that, but I hope they keep experimenting and trying to do stuff outside of Q&As or the very rare dev discussion thing on reddit like what ion did a few months ago.
but we was told to wait until 8.1 for things to get better. They’ve only gotten worse.![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")