The forums aren’t mature enough to ask relevant questions
Once questions get weeded through to find ones to answer, we’d complain that they are cherry picking.
Any answer would be misinterpreted.
Many complaints already are based on people not knowing how to play the game
There is no way this would up with a positive outcome.
This idea wouldn’t really achieve anything. There would be far more questions than Blizz would be able to answer even if it was staffed full-time, and any question that did get a response would just be piled on by others trying to get their attention as well, as already happens any time a blue post is spotted (especially if that blue post is itself a response in someone else’s thread). There just aren’t nearly enough people to respond to the posts that would flood a forum like this.
They also wouldn’t really respond in the first place. Signs indicate that either the company tells them not to engage with the forums or they just don’t want to (IMO, for good reason).
Not possible due to the community being full of window lickers.
They came on the forum for a Q&A before TWW xpac I think and Nobody seems to remember, so it’s not like they NEVER come on.
Ages ago I had the opportunity for a free blizzcon ticket in exhange for handing over the goodie bag. Those terrible questions in the q&a are less filtered then most people believe. A lot of people sadly need to ask confirmation questions on things they were told 30mins ago.
Imagine it wouldnt be different on the forums.
I instantly remembered a good ol XKCD. Relatable in how horribly people would interpret anything said.
be nice to know the personal views and beliefs of the devs and what inspires them when making the stuff for wow.
Raises paw
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
It can be.
No one would answer and what answers they give would be run through their communications department to tweak it into marketing speak and garbage spew that says nothing.
LOL – They are not HR. That is exactly not what HR is. Blue’s are basically communications people wrapped up in a “customer service” title but they are not customer service…that would imply helpful feedback and working to resolve issues.
Not even sure what a Bellular is
if they wanted to interact they would.
they clearly dont want to xD
I got a blue response to a question I asked ten years ago or so. Given the ratio of players to developers, that’s probably my fair lifetime quota of dev attention.
But one way or another, my questions seem to percolate through the community and eventually find their way into an interview.
No, we don’t.
Way too many people crapping on the developers near constantly. That’s why the developers very rarely interact with us.
If I was a WoW dev I wouldn’t communicate with the forums either.
Dev: So we are adding a new optional UI feature
“So you’re deleting my addons?”
“This cost us a raid tier…”
“Why are you forcing this on me? I don’t want this”
“Can we buff BM Monks”
Never in a thousand years would I subject the devs to this.
History proves this to be inaccurate. The simple reality is that Blizzard is too large of a company with too big of a playerbase to have a dedicated line to the developers. All that would do is provide a direct line of endless harassment because people don’t understand or care about game design or game development.
If the developers see something online, whether on these forums, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, or anywhere else; they can then determine what they want to do with that. The idea of “Let’s provide a direct line of communication” is something folks would just read as “Let me propose a bunch of (horrifically bad and awful) ideas that they will implement.”
If you want to get more of a direct line access, you can apply for that once a year. That’s what the WoW Community Council is in part for. Most people don’t view it as that, and folks who actually decide that they want to discuss things that they are passionate about the game gets targeted for that reason.
But if you want to, then apply for it, take a few days or weeks and learn the basics of general MMO design and development, and you can probably do a whole lot of good - if one were to actually discuss the game from a game design perspective as opposed to “I has opinion, plz implement it.”
the entire forum is an ask the dev section, you lot just never ask anything interesting so they dont respond lmao
They don’t want to talk to the player base, they wish to be as disconnected as they can.
The last time they did, they got real feedback and their feelings hurt.
That wouldn’t be a loaded question at all, designed to do nothing but cause political arguments
Let’s not pretend they haven’t made universally reviled decisions with zero justification.
Ask any warrior what they think of Single Minded Fury.
Let’s not pretend they didn’t make the Zaralek Cavern rare elites despawn after 15 minutes instead of just nerfing them to be soloable like everyone said they should be.