One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that it is extremely rare for them to implement player requested features.
One notable exception a long time ago was when the hearthstone CD got reduced to 30 min from 1 hour. A player made a thread suggesting this change, and blue responded by basically saying sounds good, let’s do it.
Since then, we’ve had constant player requests for things like:
–Player housing. They decided to do their own thing and make garrisons which ended quite poorly.
–Playable races. People have been wanting ogres, ethereals, tuskarr, vrykull or whatever else for years at this point, and we always get something else that ends up falling short (like diaper gnomes or dracthyr)
–New classes. People have been wanting bards, tinkerers or other classes for years. Instead we get monks and evokers, which hardly anyone plays.
–Mythic+ changes. Mythic is too toxic, the timer serves no real purpose. Stopped doing mythic in BFA because people are mean.
–Classic. Blizzard said players didn’t actually want it. Surprise, they did and it was/is extremely popular.
–More cosmetic options for specs. Instead we get “hero” talents. Which are just passives that don’t really change much and maybe look slightly different appearance wise.
I’m sure the list goes on, but a lot of the time blizz just seems like they are being contrarian to the players for no reason. They want to do things “their way”, which would be fine if their way was actually good, but usually it isn’t.
a lot of the races people want would be very hard to figure out how to do gear for, hell look at dracthyr, i can almost guarantee a lot of people don’t play drac because of the bad transmog
monks aren’t super unplayed, more than rogues, and evokers are probably unplayed because the short range caster, and the fact that you can’t play dev because aug exists
the timer DOES serve a purpose, its a dungeon enrage timer like we have on raid bosses
turns out though, people wanted classic with changes
They take player feedback into account all the time. A lot of times it seems to be very bad ideas or from the vocal minority. Mythic + is one of them, they made it harder because some people were crying it was too easy. They even removed the stepping stone and made stepping stone much harder to make entrance to content harder.
A lot of suggestions people make they think everyone wants because they want it. Classes they ask for are the same as other games, go play those games then.
I could care less about player housing,
playable races are a mess that people want. some would work some wouldn’t.
The problem with classic was so many people screaming no changes at first. then they were screaming there is nothing new to do.
That’s a big problem. They are just looking at data streams instead of what makes the game fun to play. There would be more people playing wow if they looked at common threads in player feedback instead of their data spreadsheets.