The members are fine. But they’re just screaming into the void and a few sound waves may errantly bounce back every now and then.
Blizzard barely says much of anything there and I don’t understand the point.
Now the CC forum is turning into GD where people are belittling the others and blue posts are almost nowhere to be seen to address a high majority of the feedback.
Where’s the live chats. Where’s the rapid responses to highly controversial topics. Where’s the responses to anything that isn’t a softball
The lawsuit’s over so they don’t need the PR anymore, nor do they need their muppets (the CC) to take the heat instead of them while the lawsuit(s) were active.
They can do whatever they want now. Business as usual.
The CC were never about hearing community feedback. It was about PR and having a middleman to take the heat and deal with angry players instead of them.
How far gone are you to think the CC was a PR move?
You know the P in PR stands for “Public” right? Nobody outside of us forum dwellers even know about the CC.
The issue with the CC forum right now, is it’s essentially Alpha feedback by people without Alpha. Whats the point?
Once DF is live, CC may become useful again.
Because they’re all in the Alpha “Feedback: Hunters” thread discussing how to fully rework the Hunter class meanwhile other class threads have been radio silent since their trees debuted well before Hunters.
When you couple that with the rumor that the Priest / Druid class designer is on vacation or left the company and no one has been assigned to work those classes, who knows at this point other than its the classic alpha/beta poop show.
I don’t know if I’d go that far about dissolving it, but the devs have failed to increase communication like they claimed they would. There was a brief time where they tried to engage more often with the CC, but they quickly went back to little more than making announcement posts except for a few discussions about classic.
I thought the devs were basically making a safe space by creating the CC where there would be a lesser chance of getting toxic replies (which does happen in GD). I get wanting a communication channel that limits toxic replies (and it’s best to make sure that it covers a wide variety of gameplay styles), but they need to use it to have actual discussions instead of occsaional canned announcement posts (which can be tone deaf such as the slime cat one). They also need to reply to significantly more posts in the CC forum than they currently do. The CC was supposed to lead to increased communication with Blizzard, but that has not been the case.
The structure of the CC is kind of weak even though the members are doing a good job. It could use more sub-forums for more organized feedback and discussion.
Also, everyone should be able to like specific paragraphs to show how much support each idea has. So many posts say about 80% things I like and 20% things I don’t like. That stops me from liking the post because I don’t want them to think that the part I dislike has more support than it does, even though there are several other good ideas in the post. But of course, I can’t say which ideas I like and dislike because I can’t post there.
Blizzard has been communicating more on the CC forums than they have anywhere else on the forums. But they’re only human and they’re quite busy, you know, developing the game.
So maybe cut them a bit of slack okay? These aren’t CMs posting that then relay the news back to the developers, these are the actual developers themselves that communicate with the CC.
dont think too much into it. CC was just a weird way to tell the community “we’ll try to listen” without having to actually listen
i assume theyre basically just glorified messengers bringing tl;drs of the most common threads to the devs so the devs can “ignore” the actual forum lol
